Aimée-Ffion Edwards returns as Esme.
Aimee-Ffion Edwards (born 21 November 1987) is a Welsh actress from Newport, Wales. She is known for playing Sketch in Skins, Esme in Peaky Blinders, Sophie in Detectorists and Abi in Loaded.
Role. Aimee-Ffion Edwards is a Welsh actress from Newport, Wales. She is perhaps best known for playing Sketch in Skins, Esme Shelby in Peaky Blinders.
After their home was attacked by the Changretta crime family, Esme was devastated and blamed Tommy and his family, cursing them. Esme departed to “live with decent people" on the road. Tommy tracks her down after his daughter Ruby falls sick with tuberculosis and is convinced a curse has been placed on the family.
Aimee-Ffion Edwards (born 21 November 1987) is a Welsh actress and singer. She is known for playing Sketch in Skins, Esme Shelby in Peaky Blinders, Sophie in Detectorists and Abi in Loaded. She also had a starring voice role as Mio in the English dub of Xenoblade Chronicles 3.
Tommy Shelby's upbringing around Romani mysticism led him to believe that Ruby's illness is a curse, leading him to call Esme. Furthermore, he believes that her hearing voices and having visions is evidence of second sight—a gift that his Aunt Polly also shared.
Esme was simply lying when she told Tommy she had no blame for Ruby's death in season 6 episode 3. The revelation of Connie's death and the sapphire, in this case, is no more than another strand of Esme's curse in Peaky Blinders. According to her, Evadne can't be found and the sapphire is lost forever in a river.
To Esme, it was all part of Shelby's curse, and we last saw her removing John's rings and leaving shortly after with her children. John was killed by the Italian mafia as an act of revenge against the Peaky Blinders, with Esme removing John's rings and leaving shortly after with her children.
John has seven children, two sons and two daughters with his deceased first wife Martha Shelby, and three children with Esme, whose genders are unknown. One of his daughters is called Katie Shelby, but his other children's names are unknown. John was a high ranking member of the Peaky Blinders, as well as being a…
Esme Shelby was previously married to the third eldest Shelby brother, John Shelby played by Joe Cole, who is now starring in ITV's The Ipcress File. Tommy arranged the marriage with the head of the Lee family back in series one to help bring peace between the Birmingham gang and the Lees.
Martha Shelby was the first wife of John Shelby. She is the mother of four of John Shelby's children. Martha raised their children while he was away at war, and appears to have been a good mother and wife. She died before the first series begins.
Thomas Shelby is Finn's second oldest brother. Tommy rescued Finn from his car when he was younger after a hand grenade was put in it by the Lees.
British-born Esmé Bianco is an internationally-acclaimed actress and performer, best-known for her role as "Ros" in the Emmy Award-winning show, Game of Thrones (2011).
Ada Thorne née Shelby (Sophie Rundle)
Thrust in the unenviable position of being Tommy Shelby's only sister, Ada Shelby (Sophie Rundle) finds that her professed Communist ideals clash with those of her money-driven family members.
She's Back!
It was only a matter of time before Esme swam herself back to Port Charles, and it was very convenient she re-appeared the same week that Diane revealed that the hook killer is a woman. And it's not just any woman, but a woman Diane is certain she knows but can't place. Sure sounds like Esme, doesn't it?
Esme told John's corpse that she was taking their seven children (four by John's first wife, three between them) on the road “to be with decent people.” They would never know the cursed side of their family, she vowed.
Meanwhile, John's newly widowed wife, Esme, decides to take her children and begin again elsewhere, cursing her late husband's dangerous family before leaving. Though the death of Esme's husband was sudden, it's understandable and realistic given the life-on-the-line nature of the Changretta plotline.
Following John's death, Esme cursed the Shelbys, declaring there would be "no peace" for Tommy and Arthur Shelby. She then left the family behind but is now set to return as Tommy looks for answers.
Character History
Thomas suggests a modest wager. Heads, Gold gets the yard. Tails, Thomas has sex with Gold's daughter, Esmeralda.
In season six, episode three 'Gold', vengeance did come. Tommy's seven-year-old daughter Ruby died of tuberculosis, after hearing voices, seeing visions and speaking the Romani words for the devil. Ruby died from a curse laid in retaliation for Tommy having passed on an already-cursed sapphire to the Barwell family.
The same necklace that the Russian Duchess Tatiana Petrovna belatedly warned Tommy about, that was cursed by a gypsy. “Nothing in the world would make me wear the necklace,” she laughed minutes before Grace was killed.
2 - That Grace's secret was that she is more than she appears to be, hence the horse is more capable of 'paying out on an each way bet' than she looks. And as an extension of this, the straightforward meaning - the secret of a horse's natural grace.
Duke Shelby is the illegitimate son of Tommy Shelby and his eldest biological child. Tommy was unaware of his existence until the fourth episode of the sixth season, titled 'Sapphire'.
Tommy Shelby and his kin are Irish-Romani (sometimes spelled Romany) Gypsies, a unique cultural and ethnic group present in Britain since the 1500s. The award-winning Peaky Blinders is directed by Steven Knight and has run for 6 seasons, the most recent hitting U.S.