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Margaret Thompson
Margaret Catherine Sheila Thompson is a fictional character in the HBO crime drama series Boardwalk Empire, portrayed by Kelly Macdonald. An Irish immigrant living in 1920s Atlantic City, New Jersey, she is the mistress and eventual wife of Atlantic County treasurer and crime boss Enoch "Nucky" Thompson (Steve Buscemi).
Born Margaret Catherine Sheila Rohan circa 1893 in County Kerry, Ireland, she was raised in a poor Catholic family, headed by her alcoholic father. She lived in Templenoe and was nicknamed "Peg". She becomes pregnant as a teenager by her employer's son, and her family sends her to the Magdalene asylum. Desperate to escape, she steals her brother Eamonn's (Tony Curran) inheritance and uses it to emigrate to America. She departed from Galway aboard the SS Haverford on 27 September 1909 and landed in America on October 12. She miscarried during the voyage.
Some time afterwards, she married Hans Schroeder (Joseph Sikora), with whom she had two children, Teddy and Emily. Schroeder is an abusive alcoholic who beats her, which motivates her to join the Woman's Christian Temperance League and campaign for the passage of the Volstead Act, which ushers in Prohibition.
In the pilot episode, Margaret is pregnant with her third child. Fearing that Hans will drink their family into poverty, she goes to Nucky and asks him to give Hans a job. Nucky is immediately taken with her and promises to help, and gives her some money. Hans finds the money, gambles it away, and subsequently beats her so badly that she has a miscarriage. Nucky is furious when he finds out what happened, and decides to have Hans killed. Nucky's brother Eli (Shea Whigham) and his deputy Ray Halloran (Adam Mucci) abduct Hans off the street and take him out to sea in a boat, whereupon they beat him to death and dump his body in the ocean. When it is recovered the following day by fishermen, he is posthumously framed for a hijacking committed by Nucky's protégé Jimmy Darmody (Michael Pitt) and Al Capone (Stephen Graham). After Margaret recovers, Nucky gets her a job as a salesgirl at La Belle Femme, a dress shop in the Ritz-Carlton. Margaret and Nucky become close, with Nucky particularly impressed by her willingness to stand up to his associate Senator Walter Edge (Geoff Pierson) during a discussion about women's suffrage.
One night, Margaret notices Nucky's alderman Jim Neary (Robert Clohessy) supervising the unloading of a beer truck at a garage near her house and, when Nucky brushes aside her request for help to the Temperance League, takes this information to Prohibition officer Nelson Van Alden (Michael Shannon), who has been investigating Nucky. When Van Alden subsequently shuts down a gathering of Irish bigwigs on Margaret's information, Nucky is struck by her vindictiveness and realizes that as a woman willing to sleep with men to get ahead, he wants her as his own. They become lovers and Margaret soon finds herself housed in a den of fellow concubines. Following a tense exchange at the boutique with Nucky's former mistress, Lucy Danziger (Paz de la Huerta), Margaret quits her job.
Margaret enjoys her newfound affluence and appreciates having a father figure for her children, but is troubled by Nucky's corruption. One night, when Eli is critically wounded during a robbery of one of Nucky's illegal casinos by the D'Alessio brothers, Nucky (away in Chicago at the time) asks Margaret to retrieve a ledger from a safe in his office; the ledger details Nucky's profits from bootlegging. Shortly thereafter, she is walking with Nucky on the boardwalk when two of the D'Alessios attempt to assassinate him. When his butler Eddie Kessler (Anthony Laciura) deflects the would-be shooter's gun away from Nucky, the gun goes off and hits another woman in the shoulder, who collapses onto Margaret, the blood staining Margaret's new dress.
A few days later, Van Alden visits Margaret at her home and tells her that Nucky had her husband killed, and that she is risking her soul by being with him. This revelation leaves her unsure of Nucky's true feelings for her; her doubts grow worse when she realizes that he is using her connection to the Temperance League to shore up political support among female voters, and sees him talking to a former mistress. She ends the relationship after she and Nucky have an intense argument, in which he tacitly admits to having her husband killed.
Margaret learns that, years before, Nucky's infant son had died of pneumonia and that his wife had committed suicide. She meets with him and expresses her sympathy, and he tells her that his time with her and the children had been the happiest of his life. Moved by Nucky's sincerity – and realizing that her family would likely starve without his support – Margaret renews the relationship, and rings in the new year at his side.
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Margaret Thompson
Margaret Catherine Sheila Thompson is a fictional character in the HBO crime drama series Boardwalk Empire, portrayed by Kelly Macdonald. An Irish immigrant living in 1920s Atlantic City, New Jersey, she is the mistress and eventual wife of Atlantic County treasurer and crime boss Enoch "Nucky" Thompson (Steve Buscemi).
Born Margaret Catherine Sheila Rohan circa 1893 in County Kerry, Ireland, she was raised in a poor Catholic family, headed by her alcoholic father. She lived in Templenoe and was nicknamed "Peg". She becomes pregnant as a teenager by her employer's son, and her family sends her to the Magdalene asylum. Desperate to escape, she steals her brother Eamonn's (Tony Curran) inheritance and uses it to emigrate to America. She departed from Galway aboard the SS Haverford on 27 September 1909 and landed in America on October 12. She miscarried during the voyage.
Some time afterwards, she married Hans Schroeder (Joseph Sikora), with whom she had two children, Teddy and Emily. Schroeder is an abusive alcoholic who beats her, which motivates her to join the Woman's Christian Temperance League and campaign for the passage of the Volstead Act, which ushers in Prohibition.
In the pilot episode, Margaret is pregnant with her third child. Fearing that Hans will drink their family into poverty, she goes to Nucky and asks him to give Hans a job. Nucky is immediately taken with her and promises to help, and gives her some money. Hans finds the money, gambles it away, and subsequently beats her so badly that she has a miscarriage. Nucky is furious when he finds out what happened, and decides to have Hans killed. Nucky's brother Eli (Shea Whigham) and his deputy Ray Halloran (Adam Mucci) abduct Hans off the street and take him out to sea in a boat, whereupon they beat him to death and dump his body in the ocean. When it is recovered the following day by fishermen, he is posthumously framed for a hijacking committed by Nucky's protégé Jimmy Darmody (Michael Pitt) and Al Capone (Stephen Graham). After Margaret recovers, Nucky gets her a job as a salesgirl at La Belle Femme, a dress shop in the Ritz-Carlton. Margaret and Nucky become close, with Nucky particularly impressed by her willingness to stand up to his associate Senator Walter Edge (Geoff Pierson) during a discussion about women's suffrage.
One night, Margaret notices Nucky's alderman Jim Neary (Robert Clohessy) supervising the unloading of a beer truck at a garage near her house and, when Nucky brushes aside her request for help to the Temperance League, takes this information to Prohibition officer Nelson Van Alden (Michael Shannon), who has been investigating Nucky. When Van Alden subsequently shuts down a gathering of Irish bigwigs on Margaret's information, Nucky is struck by her vindictiveness and realizes that as a woman willing to sleep with men to get ahead, he wants her as his own. They become lovers and Margaret soon finds herself housed in a den of fellow concubines. Following a tense exchange at the boutique with Nucky's former mistress, Lucy Danziger (Paz de la Huerta), Margaret quits her job.
Margaret enjoys her newfound affluence and appreciates having a father figure for her children, but is troubled by Nucky's corruption. One night, when Eli is critically wounded during a robbery of one of Nucky's illegal casinos by the D'Alessio brothers, Nucky (away in Chicago at the time) asks Margaret to retrieve a ledger from a safe in his office; the ledger details Nucky's profits from bootlegging. Shortly thereafter, she is walking with Nucky on the boardwalk when two of the D'Alessios attempt to assassinate him. When his butler Eddie Kessler (Anthony Laciura) deflects the would-be shooter's gun away from Nucky, the gun goes off and hits another woman in the shoulder, who collapses onto Margaret, the blood staining Margaret's new dress.
A few days later, Van Alden visits Margaret at her home and tells her that Nucky had her husband killed, and that she is risking her soul by being with him. This revelation leaves her unsure of Nucky's true feelings for her; her doubts grow worse when she realizes that he is using her connection to the Temperance League to shore up political support among female voters, and sees him talking to a former mistress. She ends the relationship after she and Nucky have an intense argument, in which he tacitly admits to having her husband killed.
Margaret learns that, years before, Nucky's infant son had died of pneumonia and that his wife had committed suicide. She meets with him and expresses her sympathy, and he tells her that his time with her and the children had been the happiest of his life. Moved by Nucky's sincerity – and realizing that her family would likely starve without his support – Margaret renews the relationship, and rings in the new year at his side.