Margaret Thompson

Margaret 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). 2Fictional character biography Born Margaret Catherine Sheila Rohan circa 1893 in County Kerry, Ireland, she is 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 departs from Galway on 27 September 1909 and lands in America on 12 October. She miscarries during the voyage.Some time afterwards, she marries Hans Schroeder (Joseph Sikora), with whom she has two children, Teddy and Emily. Schroeder is an 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. 3Season one In the series' pilot episode, Margaret is pregnant with Schroeder's third child. Fearing that Schroeder will drink their family into poverty, she goes to Nucky and asks him to give Schroeder a jo