Alfie Solomons – Tom Hardy. The character is based on a real-life Jewish gangster called Alfred Solomon.[2] Peaky Blinders writer Steven Knight says, "We have portrayed him as funny but with an edgy character. The Jewish gangs of the East End would have been just as famous but for some reason history seems to have remembered Alfie Solomons. In the series, Solomons is the leader of a Jewish gang based in Camden Town and runs an illegal distillery.