‘Peaky Blinders’: First Look at ‘Stranger Things’ Star Charlie Heaton as Charles Shelby in New Era for Hit Drama

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By order of the Peaky Blinders: Take a look at Charlie Heaton in the first image from the new era of Steven Knight’s hit drama.

The BBC and Netflix have released a first-look picture of the Stranger Things star as Charles Shelby. The series, set years after we left off from Cillian Murphy in the recently released Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man, is currently filming in and around Digbeth Loc Studios in Birmingham.

“Having fought a violent war, much of it behind enemy lines, Charles Shelby is now embracing normality,” reads a plot synopsis. “He hasn’t seen his half-brother Duke — played by Jamie Bell (All of Us Strangers, Rocketman, Half Man) — in years. Charles severed all ties to the Peaky Blinders gang, and the hedonistic Shelby lifestyle. But can you ever escape your own blood?”

“In this new era of Peaky Blinders, a decade after World War II, the race to rebuild Birmingham becomes a brutal contest of mythical dimensions. This is a city of unprecedented opportunity and jeopardy.”