Charlie Heaton, best known for his role as Jonathan Byers in Netflix's Stranger Things, has joined the cast of the upcoming Peaky Blinders spin-off. The BBC series, set in the 1950s, will see Heaton portray Charles Shelby, the son of Cillian Murphy's Tommy Shelby. The show takes place ten years after the events of the recent Netflix film, Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man.
Heaton, who also appeared in BBC and HBO's Industry and The New Mutants, was born in Leeds and raised by his mother on a council estate in Bridlington, Yorkshire. He left school at 16 to pursue music, moving to London to play drums for the band Comanechi. He later transitioned to acting after appearing in adverts, eventually landing a role opposite Naomi Watts in the 2016 film Shut In.
Off-screen, Heaton became a father at 20, welcoming a son named Archie in 2014 with former bandmate Akiko Matsuura. He has been in a relationship with his Stranger Things co-star Natalia Dyer since meeting on set in 2015, with the show's co-creator noting their immediate chemistry.
