Keoghan portrayed Duke Shelby in the 2026 movie, but Bell will now play the character.

Jamie Bell takes over for Barry Keoghan in new Peaky Blinders series

Keoghan portrayed Duke Shelby in the 2026 movie, but Bell will now play the character.

By Raechal Shewfelt

Raechal Shewfelt

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April 3, 2026 12:55 a.m. ET

Jamie Bell and Barry Keoghan. Credit:

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Get ready for another time jump — and *two *new series — in the *Peaky Blinders** *universe.

Netflix announced Thursday that Jamie Bell will step into the role of Duke Shelby, the son of the original show's lead, Thomas Shelby (Cillian Murphy). Actor Barry Keoghan played Duke in the movie *Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man*, released a little more than a week before the announcement.

Jamie Bell as Duke Shelby.

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"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," the streamer revealed about the new show. "This is a city of unprecedented opportunity and jeopardy. At its blood-soaked heart is Duke Shelby (Jamie Bell): older, wiser, more ambitious, and most certainly more dangerous."

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The rest of the cast includes *Stranger Things* alum Charlie Heaton, Jessica Brown Findlay (*Downton Abbey*), Lashana Lynch (N*o Time to Die*), and Lucy Karczewski, known for the play *Stereophonic*, in her TV debut.

Steven Knight, the creator and writer behind the crime drama, promised "more exciting cast announcements to come" for the series, set 10 years after *The Immortal Man*.

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"I am thrilled that we are announcing a new era of *Peaky Blinders*, moving the story to post-war Birmingham in the early 50s," Knight said. "We are incredibly fortunate to have Jamie Bell taking the role of Tommy Shelby's oldest son, Duke, and to have the incredible Charlie Heaton also leading the cast."

Bell himself is best known for portraying Bernie Taupin to Taron Egerton's Elton John in 2019 movie *Rocketman*. He's also appeared in *All of Us Strangers* (2023), *Snowpiercer* (2013), *Fantastic Four *(2015), and in 2000's *Billy Elliot*, for which he won a Critics Choice Award for Best Child Performance

The original *Peaky Blinders*, which debuted on BBC Two in 2013, was inspired by the real-life street gang following World War I.

Murphy famously recounted last month on *Late Night With Seth Meyers* that Keoghan secured his part playing his son in the franchise by texting him on Father's Day.

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