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Alfie Solomons is a major character in the BBC drama Peaky Blinders.

He is a Jewish gangster and sometimes an ally to Thomas Shelby despite Tommy's wisely distrusting him.

He was portrayed by Tom Hardy, who also played Shinzon in Star Trek: Nemesis, Charles Bronson in Bronson, Bane in The Dark Knight Rises, John Fitzgerald in The Revenant, and Venom in Sony's Spider-Man Universe.

Biography[]

Season Two[]

Alfie is involved in a feud with Darby Sabini, leader of the Italian mob in London, over control of gambling in the city. He is approached by Tommy Shelby of the Peaky Blinders gang, who is hoping to move into Sabini's territory and agrees to work with the Peaky Blinders against Sabini. The two gangs set up a bootlegging operation in which a massive alcohol distillery is disguised as a bakery and staffed with an army of Black Country recruits. However, the opportunistic Alfie soon turns on the Blinders and makes a deal with Sabini, agreeing to help him deal with the Shelbys in return for his bookies being allowed to the Sabini-controlled Epsom Races. Solomons upholds his end of the deal by luring Arthur Shelby and Billy Kitchen, the leader of the Black Country recruits, to a Passover feast at the distillery, where he sacrifices a goat named after Tommy, shoots Billy dead and knocks Arthur out before calling the police and having him arrested for Billy's murder. However, Sabini soon returns to his promise and bars Alfie's bookies from attending Epsom, so Alfie arranges another meeting with Tommy. He at first tries to extort Tommy into handing over 100% of his business, but Tommy bluffs him into thinking he has planted a hand grenade in the building and forces him to agree to a 35% deal. They then resume their alliance and drive Sabini's bookies out of Epsom before taking over the gambling there.

Season Three[]

During Tommy's dealings with the Economic League and the Petrovna family, Alfie poses as Tommy's jeweler during a visit to the Petrovna family vault to accumulate enough jewelry to pay for their plans. This also serves the purpose of allowing them to size up the vault in preparation for the Blinders tunneling their way in later and robbing the family. However, the Economic League soon discovers that Tommy plans to betray them and offer Alfie a large amount of gold for information. Alfie tells them about the planned robbery, resulting in Tommy's son being kidnapped to blackmail him into giving all the loot from the robbery to the Economic League. Tommy soon realizes Alfie is responsible due to the League's demands, including the mention of a priceless Faberge egg that only he and Alfie knew about, and confronts him, accusing him of crossing a line, but Alfie berates him for taking the moral high ground when his empire is based on killing people. Tommy is convinced not to kill Alfie by Michael Gray, and Alfie confides that he did not know the League was planning to kidnap his son (despite earlier claiming otherwise).

Season Four[]

Alfie is approached by Luca Changratta, a New York Mafioso with a vendetta against Tommy, who offers him money to help kill him. Alfie extorts progressively higher payments out of Luca, including a promise that the New York Mafia will help him to smuggle rum into the United States, but eventually agrees to use a boxing match between his nephew and the Blinders' champion as a cover to smuggle Luca's assassins in disguised as his nephew's seconds. During the match, Alfie subtly warns Tommy about the impending assassination attempt before leaving just before the attempted assassination, which results in Arthur being injured but Tommy being left unharmed. Tommy immediately knows that Alfie is behind the attempt and goes to deal with him after killing Luca.

Tommy eventually tracks Alfie to a beach in Margate, where he confesses that he intentionally tipped him off to his betrayal in the hope that Tommy would kill him, as he is suffering from skin cancer due to being exposed to poison gas during the First World War. This knowledge and their friendship make Tommy unwilling to shoot Alfie, who suddenly turns and shoots him in the side to force Tommy to shoot him in self-defense. Tommy shoots him in the face and leaves his seemingly dead body on the beach with his dog.

Season Five[]

Alfie is revealed to have survived the shot, albeit blind in his left eye, and gone into retirement at a seaside resort in Margate with the outside world thinking him dead. At some point, he sends Tommy a letter revealing his survival, which he soon forgets due to his painkillers. Tommy later approaches Alfie for help assassinating the fascist politician Oswald Mosley. Resenting Mosley's antisemitism, he agrees to supply Tommy with a group of thugs to aid in the assassination in return for ten thousand pounds. Alfie listens to Mosley's speech on the night of the planned assassination in the hope of hearing him be shot. However the attempt fails due to the intervention of the Irish Republican Army, who want Mosley alive for their own purposes.

Season Six[]

An increasingly unhinged Alfie has withdrawn into listening to and writing opera, which reminds him of Italian soldiers he bayonetted during the war. Tommy visits him to tell him that his uncle Charlie was murdered in Boston on the orders of mob boss Jack Nelson. Alfie, who has become obsessed with creating a "final act" for his life before he dies from cancer, agrees to help Tommy against Nelson to get revenge for his uncle's death and take over the bootlegging business in Boston.

Trivia[]

• Tom Hardy has expressed interest in reprising his role as Alfie Solomons in the upcoming Netflix spin-off film.