Character
Oswald Mosley
Oswald Mosley in Peaky Blinders (2013), played by Sam Claflin.
Oswald Mosley arrives in Birmingham as a rising political star, aristocratic and immaculately charming, courting Tommy Shelby's influence and money for his new party. He speaks in smooth, reasonable tones about order and national renewal, always smiling, always watching, a man who wants power and has worked out exactly how polite ambition can look.
Claflin plays him without a trace of cartoon villainy, which is precisely what makes him unsettling — the charisma is real, the manners genuine, the menace entirely implicit. The show trusts the audience to recognise the danger dressed as civility, and Claflin's control, that unbroken pleasant surface, makes Mosley one of the series' most quietly frightening additions.
Sir Oswald Mosley is a British aristocrat and leader of the British Union of Fascists. At the time of his introduction in the series, he holds public office as Minister of the Duchy of Lancaster, the deputy to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and a Cabinet adviser to the Prime Minister of Great Britain. He is also the MP for Smethwick, the constituency bordering South Birmingham.
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Peaky Blinders2013