Jamie Bell is Duke Shelby

Jamie Bell is Duke Shelby in Peaky Blinders the next generation

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Jamie Bell and Charlie Heaton will lead a new generation of Peaky Blinders

Jessica Brown-Findlay, Lashana Lynch, and Lucy Karczewski also confirmed for the cast.

Jamie Bell is Duke Shelby — what do we know about the rest of the cast and the story

Both the BBC and Netflix revealed the news at the same time. Steven Knight, creator and writer of Peaky Blinders, reignites his world in two new series set in the 1950s, featuring the next generation of the Shelby family. Jamie Bell (All of Us Strangers, Rocket Man) will take the mantle of Duke Shelby in a story set ten years after the events of Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man.

In this new era of Peaky Blinders, a decade after World War Two, the race to rebuild Birmingham becomes a brutal contest of mythical dimensions. This is a city of unprecedented opportunity and jeopardy. At its blood-soaked heart is Duke Shelby: older, wiser, more ambitious, and most certainly more dangerous.

Further Cast for Peaky Blinders sequel series
Left to right: Charlie Heaton (Image: Julia Sariy), Jessica Brown Findlay (Image: Pip Boudillion), Lashana Lynch (Image: Richard Phibbs) and Lucy Karczewski (Image: Harry Livingstone)

Also confirmed to join the cast are Charlie Heaton (Stranger Things, Industry), Jessica Brown Findlay (Silo, The Flatshare), Lashana Lynch (The Day of The Jackal, No Time to Die), and Lucy Karczewski (Stereophonic) in her television debut (details of these roles will be announced at a later date). The 6×60 series films in and around Birmingham.