Boardwalk Empire

From Wikipedia:

Boardwalk Empire is an American television series from cable network HBO, set in Atlantic City, New Jersey, during the Prohibition era. It stars Steve Buscemi as Enoch "Nucky" Thompson. The show was adapted from a book about historical criminal kingpin Enoch "Nucky" Johnson by Nelson Johnson entitled Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City, by Emmy Award-winning screenwriter and producer Terence Winter of The Sopranos.

The first episode, with a final cost of $18 million, was directed by Martin Scorsese and was the most expensive pilot episode produced in television history. On September 1, 2009, HBO picked up the series for an additional 11 episodes. It premiered on September 19, 2010. The series was immediately renewed for a second season on September 20, 2010, which will premiere on HBO on September 25, 2011.

Boardwalk Empire has received widespread critical acclaim, particularly for its visual style and historical accuracy, as well as for Buscemi's lead performance. The series has been nominated for 18 Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Drama Series, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series and Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.

Executive producer(s)

Terence Winter
Martin Scorsese
Mark Wahlberg
Tim Van Patten
Stephen Levinson

Main cast

• Steve Buscemi as Enoch "Nucky" Thompson – the corrupt treasurer of Atlantic County and its most powerful political figure, based on Enoch L. Johnson.
• Michael Pitt as James "Jimmy" Darmody – Nucky's protégé, he is haunted by his experiences fighting in World War I.
• Kelly Macdonald as Margaret Schroeder – a young Irish widow and mother, she turns to Nucky for help before eventually becoming his mistress.
• Michael Shannon as Nelson Van Alden – a zealous Federal Prohibition agent, he identifies Nucky as a key bootlegging figure.
• Shea Whigham as Elias "Eli" Thompson – Nucky's younger brother and sheriff of Atlantic County.
• Aleksa Palladino as Angela Darmody – Jimmy's common-law wife and the mother of his young son.
• Michael Stuhlbarg as Arnold Rothstein – a powerful and intelligent New York gangster who enters into business with Nucky.
• Stephen Graham as Al Capone – a violent low-level Chicago gangster with ambitions of entering the bootlegging trade.
• Vincent Piazza as Charles "Lucky" Luciano – a Sicilian-American gangster and close associate of Rothstein.
• Paz de la Huerta as Lucy Danziger – Nucky's temperamental mistress and a former Ziegfeld Follies dancer.
• Michael Kenneth Williams as Chalky White – Nucky's counterpart in Atlantic City's black community.
• Anthony Laciura as Eddie Kessler – Nucky's bumbling and often overwhelmed German assistant and butler.
• Jack Huston as Richard Harrow – a former Army marksman who allies with Jimmy and later Nucky. Heavily scarred in the war, he wears a tin mask over half his missing face.
• Paul Sparks as Michael "Mickey Doyle" Kozik – an Atlantic City bootlegger. Doyle is based on Mickey Duffy.
• Dabney Coleman as Commodore Louis Kaestner – (based on German American hotelier and politician Louis Kuehnle) – Nucky's mentor and predecessor in Atlantic City. He is revealed to be Jimmy's biological father.