‘Peaky Blinders’ Movie: Tim Roth Latest To Join Cillian Murphy, Rebecca Ferguson & Barry Keoghan In Netflix Feature

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nominee Tim Roth has become the latest high-profile name to join the cast of Netflix’s Peaky Blinders movie which continues to shape up as quite an event. The prolific English actor will join star Cillian Murphy as well as Rebecca Ferguson and Barry Keoghan in the Tom Harper-directed and highly-anticipated feature extension of the BAFTA-winning series.

Details of Roth’s role are being kept under wraps, much as those of Ferguson and Keoghan, which Deadline has exclusively reported on in the past several weeks.

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Oscar-winner Murphy is returning to the iconic role of Tommy Shelby, leader of the eponymous Birmingham gangster family. Production on the feature will begin before the year is out.

The epic continuation of the multi-award-winning saga has been written by the show’s creator, Steven Knight. He will produce alongside Caryn Mandabach, Murphy and Guy Heeley. Exec producers include Harper, David Kosse, Jamie Glazebrook, Andrew Warren and David Mason. The movie will be made in association with BBC Film.

Knight recently talked up the “mindblowing” cast during the RTS London Convention, noting that the film is “set in the Second World War and it’s really good.”

Roth secured a Best Supporting Actor nomination for 1995’s Rob Roy. His myriad feature credits also include Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and The Hateful Eight; as well as Little Odessa, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead and The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover. On television, he’s recently been seen in Last King of the Cross, Tiny Beautiful Things and She-Hulk: Attorney at Law.

He is represented by CAA, Jackoway Tyerman Wertheimer, and Markham, Froggatt & Irwin.

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