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She was part of the Birmingham criminal gang, The Peaky Blinders , a certified accountant and company treasurer of Shelby Company Limited.
She managed the Peaky Blinders, when the Shelby brothers were absent during WWI. She was the unofficial head of the Shelby Family and often advised her nephews on the gang's business. She was killed by the IRA, as a consequence from her nephews actions, after they tried to have Oswald Mosley assassinated.
Polly originates from criminal Gypsy family the Shelbys, daughter of Mr Shelby and Birdie Boswell. Polly tells her son Michael Gray that his Grandmother was Gypsy Princess named Birdie Boswell.
Polly always wears the Black Madonna. Arthur Shelby Sr. calls her Pollyanna. When she was young and the police were after her father, he used to take the family out, living in the wood.
She later married a river Gypsy Gray and had two children, Michael and Anna Gray. However, her husband died drunk, squeezed between a boat and a lock [3] and both her children were taken from her by the parish authorities, in part due to the intervention of a neighbour. Aunt Polly has looked after her nephews Arthur Jr. After John, Arthur and Thomas return from the war, they take over control of the Blinders, with Thomas eventually assuming leadership. However, Polly remains the matriarch and heart of the family.
Thomas keeps many things close to his chest, such as the fact that his men accidentally acquired the wrong crate during a routine pick-up, instead of taking a crate that contained Lewis machine guns. Polly is the only one that Thomas will confide in. When she is eventually able to wheedle the information out of him, she tells him to dump the guns before he gets hanged for having them. Polly finds out that Ada is pregnant with the child of Freddie Thorne , who has since fled the city from Inspector Chester Campbell.
Polly tells Ada about how she was 16 when she first became pregnant and how she almost died from the abortion, hoping that the father of her child would come back. She tells Ada that they should take the train the following day, for Ada to get a proper abortion. The next day at the train station, Freddie arrives as they are about to board the train. He proposes to Ada and she says yes, but he tells Polly that they are staying in Birmingham and that he is not afraid of Thomas.
Polly tries to offer Freddie pounds and a ticket to New York for him and Ada, but he again refuses to leave. She asks Thomas to allow Freddie to come to see his son and he agrees.
However, after the baby is born, the police raid the house and take Freddie away. Polly is furious and bursts into the Garrison Pub , yelling at Thomas and calling him a liar. When Arthur brings home his absentee father Arthur Shelby Sr. having happened upon him in a boxing club, Polly is disgusted to see the "thieving whore-monger" who abandoned his family.
When Thomas walks in, his reaction is the same. While his father proclaims that he's a changed man, Thomas does not trust him. She is not surprised when he cons his son, Arthur, out of five hundred pounds. Later, Polly tries to convince Ada to forgive Thomas. Polly brings Ada and her son to the next family meeting and Ada tells Thomas that she forgives him, as long as he does what Polly promised. On Black Star Day , when the Blinders learn that they have been betrayed by Inspector Campbell and his spy Grace Burgess , Polly tells Thomas that she'll deal with Grace.
Polly visits Grace at The Garrison Pub just as she is about to leave. They share drinks and Polly tells Grace that though Thomas might accept Grace into the family, Polly herself never will. Finally, Polly is seen with Thomas, Arthur and John at the Garrison, sharing a toast to the success of the Shelby family. Polly has become withdrawn and depressed and visits a medium because she had a dream about her daughter.
The woman, Mrs Pryce of the Patch, tells her that her daughter is dead, and Polly breaks down into tears. However, Esme later warns her that the Gypsy woman is a charlatan.
Thomas is able to discover what happened to Polly's children. The girl died of spring fever, but he locates the boy, Michael. Thomas will not give Polly the address where Michael is and tells Polly that her son must choose to contact her if he wants. Even being threatened by Polly holding a gun to his head will not move Thomas.
Polly fires her gun at the ceiling in impotent rage before heading out on a bender of epic proportions at the newly re-opened Garrison Pub. She is shown using opium and drinking alcohol, as well as having sex with a young man. Polly is greeted the next morning by her son Michael, who has arrived in Birmingham to see her, and they catch up after almost eighteen years apart.
As Michael offers to be the new accountant, Polly talks to Thomas and insists that her son not be involved in the illegal activities of the Peaky Blinders and negotiates his pay. When her son is thrown behind bars by Major Campbell for the burning of the Marquis of Lorne pub, Polly takes matters into her own hands to get Michael out of jail.
Major Campbell offers to sign Michael's release form, in exchange for Polly having sex with him. He specifically humiliates and both verbally and physically abuses her, demanding that she be 'small and weak' and cry for him. Polly is disgusted by the demand but reluctantly accepts in the end, thinking only of her son's freedom.
However, Campbell rapes Polly forcefully despite her acquiescence. The next day, she goes to pick up Michael, who states that the guards told him what she has done to have him released. Before going to Epsom , Polly lays cash in front of Michael, telling him to take the money and start a new life for himself in London, away from the "Birmingham life", which is what she should have done at the start, but now has business to attend to. At Epsom, Polly corners Major Campbell in a phone booth whilst on the phone with Winston Churchill.
Despite his pleading, she shoots him in the heart and exits the bar. A Russian Anton Kaledin comes and speaks with her because it's Aunt Polly who Thomas Shelby trusts most. She knows he's a spy, then he's killed by Arthur. Polly also meets a portrait artist Ruben Oliver who plans to seduce her. Later Polly approaches Ruben to commission him to paint her portrait.
While he's painting, he divulges that his main objective for seducing her. In the war against the Changrettas, Polly tells the boys to compromise but Thomas does not. Finally, Grace is shot. When there're conflicts in the family Polly manages to diffuse the situation with a call for family unity. Thomas knows that Father Hughes is the traitor who passing information on to the Soviets and plans to kill him.
Steaming drunk, Aunt Polly makes a big mistake, she goes to confession at church that her family is planning to murder "a man of the cloth". Father Hughes knows this means him and Thomas's plans fall apart. Polly with her nephews' wives Linda , Esme and Lizzie Stark. Polly goes to see Ruben Oliver when portrait's finished and they have sex.
The following day, Polly learns that Michael plans to kill Father Hughes and why Michael asks to do. Polly grieves over her son's pain, but she doesn't want her son to become a killer. Charles Shelby is kidnapped by Father Hughes. He wants Thomas to blow up the train and wants the Russians' jewels including the Faberge Egg. Thomas starts accusing everyone in his immediate family, that someone leaked the information about Faberge Egg. Thomas in the end tells Polly it must be Ruben Oliver as she may leak when she's drunk.
But it's not Polly who leaks and not Ruben who betrays, he comes to find Polly. Polly tells him that she wanted a dull life with him. Michael kills Father Hughes and brings Charles home where Polly sees the blood and embraces him. When business is over, Thomas calls the family meeting and tells them the police have issued warrants for the arrests of Arthur, John, Michael and Polly. This was ordered by their enemies whom they betrayed last night.
Polly is arrested for the murder of Chief Inspector Chester Campbell. Polly is about to hang, praying to god and waiting to be sent to heaven, when a letter comes from the King to set her free. She suffers terribly from her first near-death experience after that. She blames her nephew Thomas, then leaves him, Shelby Company Limited and the Peaky Blinders. She goes to bad ways using prison-tablets and whiskey for healing herself.
Apparently, she believes since she put her head inside the noose, she's free to do what she wants. When Luca Changretta comes to attack the Shelbys, as the matriarch, Polly must come back to protect her family despite the bad blood between her and Thomas. Because of the Mafia's attacking, John is dead and Michael is badly wounded.
At John's funeral, Polly is the most upset at Tommy for using his own brother's funeral as a trap, using family members as baits and walks out. She also meets the hired hitman Aberama Gold for the first time. She knows he wants something other than just money with her second sight.
Michael persuades his mother to help Thomas and promises then he will go to Australia with her. Thomas also begs Polly to come back. Polly tells Thomas she understands what he said at John's funeral. Polly makes things clear, she changes because she realizes " when you're dead already you're free.
Moreover, she's back to help him because of Michael. She advises her nephew on this situation especially asking Mr Gold what he really wants.
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