Peaky Blinders: Who was the woman in Mosley's dressing room? The clues you missed
PEAKY BLINDERS season 5 ended on a huge cliffhanger and fans have been breaking down the final episode online. Who was the woman in Mosley's dressing room in the series five finale?
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Filming on Peaky Blinders season six is currently underway and fans are counting down the days until the new series lands on screens. In the new series, Tommy Shelby (played by Cillian Murphy) will once again come face to face with his enemy Oswald Mosley (Sam Clafin) after his assassination plot against the fascist MP failed. In the final episode, Mosley was seen having sex with a woman in his dressing room before taking to the stage but who was she and could she have something to do with the failed plot? Express.co.uk has everything you need to know.
Who was the woman in Oswald Mosley's dressing room?
Throughout season five of Peaky Blinders, Tommy Shelby believed there was a 'black cat' operating within the ranks of the Peaky family and unfortunately, he was right.
Tommy had concrete plans to assassinate his enemy, Oswald Mosley in the series finale but in a turn of events nobody seen coming, his plans were sabotaged.
However, who was behind the failure of the plan remains unknown.
One of the major theories surrounding Tommy's failed plans surrounds a woman Mosley was spotted sleeping with shortly before the plan was about to commence.
In the scene, Mosley is having sex with a woman, but her identity is not revealed.
Express.co.uk has a full recap of all the main suspects below.
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Gina Gray
Gina Gary (Anya Taylor-Joy) has a huge interest in Shelby Company Limited and began to advise Michael (Finn Cole) on future steps, manipulating him into taking control of the company from Tommy.
Gina Gary (Anya Taylor-Joy) has a huge interest in Shelby Company Limited and began to advise Michael (Finn Cole) on future steps, manipulating him into taking control of the company from Tommy.
However, when Michael proposes his plan to restructure the company and take Gina and their unborn baby back to the US, Tommy instantly rejects the proposal and throws it into the fireplace.
Gina is then heard saying to Michael they will have to “do it the other way”, hinting she and her husband are the ones who betrayed Tommy and sabotaged his plans to assassinate Mosley.
Reddit user hauntedbundy_ shared the theory online which suggests Gina and Tommy are in cahoots.
They wrote: "Gina. Seems obvious the more I think about it. 'Guess it’s plan B' were the last words she uttered to Michael and later we see Mosley having sex with a mysterious blonde.
"The way they looked at each other in the penultimate episode at the Swan Lake ballet, was almost as if they knew each other.
"When Michael was talking about taking over the business, 'Gina’s family is very good with this sort of thing' is obvious to me that they are gangsters or very influential in the world of organised crime. What does everyone else think?"
However, Peaky Blinders director Anthony Byrne has shut down the theories.
Speaking to Digital Spy in 2020, Byrne said the mystery woman is not Gina.
He said: "No, no, it's not.
"I would've shown Anya Taylor-Joy, there would have been a reason, it would have been more shocking to see her and know once and for all.
"But no, I don't remember her name, she was a really lovely woman who came in and did that scene.
"Doing sex scenes is always really difficult anyway, but usually you're working with somebody you've spent weeks, or months with, but this is just somebody that comes in that morning or that day.
"She was great, really lovely, it's as much for Sam as well, he's playing this guy who is really aggressive and it was the same with Brenda who played the swan (from Swan Lake), a really, really cool woman.
"It's just those conversations, working out the action and making sure at every point both people know exactly what is going to happen, so nothing is improvised at all and then creating a kind of comfortable environment on the set.
"But it definitely wasn't Anya Taylor Joy and it certainly wasn't a stand-in for her character. So yeah, no is the answer."
Lizzie Stark
One Peaky Blinders fan, SyedMAunRaza shared a lengthy theory on Reddit, explaining how Lizzie (Natasha O'Keeffe) is the black cat within the Shelby ranks.
They wrote: "Lizzie knew Oswald Mosley from her past. She is also at a verge of ending up her marriage (relationship) with Tommy Shelby.
"Remember she didn't come in the last family meeting with an excuse that their son was having a violin concert, which to be fair is a very ordinary and unimportant reason to avoid such an important family meeting in the midst of this whole chaotic situation which is developing [sic]."
The Reddit user also suspected the unknown woman Mosley was having sex with inside his dressing room before his speech was Lizzie herself.
If the woman was Lizzie, then there is a high chance she was working with Mosley all along.
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Tommy's new female foe.
Black Mirror star Amber Anderson has joined the cast of Peaky Blinders for season six.
Very few details about her character have been released so far and there is a huge possibility she could be the woman Mosley was sleeping with.
After all, she bears a striking resemblance to the woman Mosley was having sex with.
In a behind-the-scenes picture on director Anthony Bryne's Instagram, Anderson can be seen in a gold dress with a 1930s hairstyle and smoking a cigarette.
Speaking to Digital Spy in summer last year, Byrne revealed season six will see the arrival of a "dark" female character.
He said: "There’s a great female character who is new, who is pretty dark.
"I haven’t seen a character like her in Peaky before. I won’t say who she is, but she certainly gives Tommy a run for his money.
"She challenges him in a different way basically. She's certainly not a protagonist and I don't know if she's an antagonist."
Byrne even teased she has a lot in common with Tommy's current enemy Mosley.
"I haven’t seen a character like her in Peaky before. I won’t say who she is, but she certainly gives Tommy a run for his money.
"She challenges him in a different way basically. She's certainly not a protagonist and I don't know if she's an antagonist."
Byrne even teased she has a lot in common with Tommy's current enemy Mosley.
He teased: "It's similar to Mosley...She has a similar ideology, and that’s challenging for any character, like I’ve said before… he or she, they don’t have guns or a gang, but they have an ideology that’s like a virus and it’s more dangerous than anything.”
Other potential females it could be include Tommy's aunt Polly Walker (Helen McCory), who has stressed on several occasions she wanted to quit the Peaky lifestyle.
There is also the possibility Ada Shelby (Sophie Rundle) has turned her back on Tommy for good and may have partnered with Mosley.
Jessie Eden (Charlie Murphy) may have also turned against Tommy and got together with Mosley as an act of revenge.
Fans will have to wait until Peaky Blinders season six arrives in 2021 or late 2022 to find out.
Peaky Blinders seasons 1 to 5 are streaming on Netflix now