23 Facts About Irene Adler

Irene Adler is a fictional character in the Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Irene Adler has a career in opera as a contralto, performing at La Scala in Milan, Italy, and a term as prima donna in the Imperial Opera of Warsaw, Poland, indicating she is a talented and skilled singer.

Spotting the disguised Holmes, Irene Adler asks him to be the wedding's official witness and gives him a sovereign coin for his trouble.

Irene Adler concludes the cleric is really Holmes, whom she was warned about.

Irene Adler is gone, along with her new husband and the photo, leaving behind a photograph of herself alone as well as a letter written to Holmes explaining how she saw through his trick and confirmed her suspicion.

The standard American pronunciation of the name, "Eye-reen", would be appropriate since Irene Adler is said to be from New Jersey.

Irene Adler appears as an opera singer in the 1993 pastiche The Canary Trainer, where she encounters Holmes during his three-year 'death' while he is working as a violinist in the Paris Opera House, and asks him to help her protect her friend and unofficial protege, Christine Daae, from the 'Opera Ghost'.

Irene Adler is portrayed by Rachel McAdams in the 2009 film Sherlock Holmes.

Irene Adler was portrayed by Inga Swenson in the Broadway musical, Baker Street which starred Fritz Weaver as Sherlock Holmes.

Irene Adler was played by Olga Edwardes in the episode "A Scandal in Bohemia" in the 1951 TV series Sherlock Holmes.

In "A Scandal in Belgravia", the first episode of the 2012 second series of the BBC Sherlock, Irene Adler was portrayed by Lara Pulver opposite Benedict Cumberbatch as Holmes.

Irene Adler is initially sought to recover incriminating photos she possesses of a liaison between her and a female member of the Royal Family, along with various other incriminating documents kept in a password-protected phone.

In many ways, this version of Irene Adler is the polar opposite of Doyle's original tale: In this version, she is not American, but English; while the original was a victim of prosecution falsely accused of being a courtesan, this one is a culprit and a known dominatrix who serves high-end clientele.

Irene Adler makes a cameo appearance as a figment of Sherlock's imagination in the episode "The Sign of Three", and sends Sherlock a card when he was shot in "His Last Vow".

Sherlock admits that Irene Adler is alive, but states that he doesn't text back.

In "M", Sherlock confronts M, revealed to be Sebastian Moran, and is told that Irene Adler was not killed by Moran, but by his employer: Moriarty.

In "Risk Management", it is explained that Irene Adler was an American art restorer living in London.

Holmes discovers Irene Adler is alive, having been kept as Moriarty's prisoner in a dilapidated house.

Irene Adler is featured in Soviet director Igor Maslennikov's made-for-TV 5-part film series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson.

Irene Adler appears in the fourth part, The Treasures of Agra, based upon The Sign of the Four and A Scandal in Bohemia, in which Holmes and Watson, while waiting for the new information on his current case, remember their encounter with Irene Adler.

Irene Adler explains that she was married for several years, only for her husband to die of illness two years before the film's events.

In 2007's BBC Television production Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars, Irene Adler is the main villain of the piece and one of Sherlock Holmes' archenemies instead of a potential love interest.

Irene Adler is later shown to be a metahuman with possible telekinetic powers; upon seeing this, Sherloque vows to protect her from metahuman-serial killer Cicada.