Peaky Blinders: 10 Best Minor & Supporting Characters
5. Grace Shelby
She was cunning, intelligent, and utterly beholden to her feelings for one Thomas Shelby, in spite of years passing by without seeing him.
Grace initially infiltrated Tommy's operation and gained his trust without too much hassle. He suspected something was amiss with her from the moment he saw her, and though his own brilliant powers of deduction were wrong, he still couldn't help but love her utterly and completely.
Every step she took to uncover the guns and bring Tommy down was a step she took towards him and away from her loyalty to the law. Her clashes with Polly after her betrayal was uncovered were epic to watch, and Grace demonstrated her own ability to probe in just the right places to get what she wanted. Even going so far as to use sex with Tommy on their wedding day to further hammer home the point of her importance within the family.
Her death was something Tommy never moved past, and something that he probably never will. Her visions haunt him years after her demise, and though he has loved others and even married Lizzie in the time since her death, his love for Grace has never faded and Tommy is left broken by her absence. Coming close to killing himself on more than one occasion over her torturous apparitions.