Peaky Blinders: Jessie comes to talk with Tommy
Peaky Blinders has been on screens since 2013 and there have been many guest stars along the way. Season one featured Sam Neill as Chief Inspector Campbell, Annabelle Wallis as Grace Burgess, Charlie Creed-Miles as Billy Kimber and Iddo Goldberg as Freddie Thorne.
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What happened to Freddie Thorne?
Freddie Thorne (played by Iddo Goldberg) was a Communist, living in Birmingham and a former close friend of Thomas Shelby (Cillian Murphy).
He was married to Tommy’s sister, Ada Shelby (Sophie Rundle) and they had one son together, Karl Thorne, named after Karl Marx.
Freddie featured throughout the first season of Peaky Blinders, last appearing in season one, episode six.
He was a Sergeant in the Great War and was part of the 179th Tunnelling Company.
Freddie was Tommy’s best friend and even saved his life during the war.
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Freddie Thorne (Image: BBC)
Freddie Thorne died of illness (Image: BBC)
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However, the pair had a falling out after Freddie became a communist following the end of the year in 1918.
Back in Birmingham in 1919, Freddie began secretly seeing Tommy’s sister, Ada, meeting recently under a bridge to avoid being caught by the Shelby family.
Following the war, Freddie was seen in Birmingham rallying the Communist faction to strike at the Birmingham Small Arms Company (BSA).
His potential link to the stolen BSA guns leads Inspector Campbell (Sam Neill) to investigate Communists in the Small Heath area in Birmingham.
As a result, Freddie is about to leave Birmingham to avoid arrest but a moment before he was about to board the train, Ada revealed she was pregnant.
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Freddie Thorne was married to Ada Shelby and they had a son called Karl (Image: BBC)
Aunt Polly (Helen McCrory) agree the young couple money to leave Birmingham but Freddie chose to stay, insisting he was not scared of Tommy.
However, due to Inspector Campbell’s crackdown one communist in the area, Freddie had to go into hiding.
When Ada gave birth to their son Karl, Freddie came out of hiding to meet his newborn son, but the police arrived immediately to arrest him, clearly knowing of his whereabouts.
Unsurprisingly, it was suspected Tommy had sold Freddie’s whereabouts to the police but he denied doing such a thing.
Instead, Tommy ranged a prison break out when Freddie was being transferred to Brixton prison, which was successful.
Freddie and Danny (Samuel Edward-Cook) were late to the confrontation between the Peaky Blinders and Billy Kimber’s (Charlie Creed-Miles) men.
At the very beginning of Peaky Blinder season two, it is revealed Freddie had died.
The Peaky Blinders and Ada are seen at his funeral and it is suggested he died of ‘pestilence’ - most likely the Spanish Influenza pandemic of 1918-1920, which occurred before the second series begins in 1922.
At the funeral, Tommy reveals he made a promise back in France during the war he would speak over Freddie’s grave should he pass away before him, a promise which he fulfils.
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Iddo Goldberg starred as Freddie Thorne in Peaky Blinders. (Image: BBC)
Who played Freddie Thorne in Peaky Blinders?
Iddo Goldberg starred as Freddie Thorne in Peaky Blinders.
Outside of Peaky Blinders fame, Thorne is best known for playing Isaac Walton in the WGN America series Salem.
He also starred in The Last Tycoon as Frtiz Lang and as Brandon in Attachments.
Speaking to Collider.com about his time on Peaky Blinders, Goldberg said: “The world that they created, along with Steven Knight, who wrote it, was just so big and so grand.
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“Usually, people cut corners and make things look bigger, but everything was just so grand and big and epic, on this production. It was great! It was just really, really brilliant.
“We weren’t doing it on a backlot. We were in the U.K., shooting in all these great locations up in Leeds. All the stuff just looked so authentic. It was really, really amazing. And then, you see the costumes.
“I’m sure you’ve heard this before from actors, but I’ve not had many experiences like it.”
He added: “Peaky Blinders is going to really be something. It was a real treat.”
Peaky Blinders is streaming on Netflix and the BBC iPlayer now
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