Jack O'Connell, Eddie Marsan, and Lesley Manville join the cast of Amy Winehouse biopic Back To Black

After Focus Features shared the first look at Marisa Abela in costume as Amy Winehouse in Back To Black, more cast members have been confirmed for the biopic, which went into production in London earlier this week. As reported by Deadline, Jack O’Connell stars as the late singer’s ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil, Eddie Marsan will be playing her father Mitch Winehouse, and Lesley Manville is set to appear as her maternal grandmother.

In the tabloid circus that surrounded Winehouse up until her death in 2011, Fielder-Civil and Mitch Winehouse emerged as particularly contentious figures in the chart-topping artist’s circle as she struggled with addiction and disordered eating. Later on, the elder Winehouse said that the 2015 documentary Amy was “trying to portray [him] in the worst possible light” and dismissed the Oscar-winning A24 release as “a negative, spiteful and misleading portrayal of Amy.” Mitch Winehouse was previously the subject of his own documentary, My Daughter Amy, as well as writing a memoir titled Amy: My Daughter. He and Amy’s mother Janis released their documentary take Reclaiming Amy in 2021 after announcing that they would be producing a biopic about their daughter back in 2018. Noomi Rapace was previously considered to star in an unauthorized version.