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Kimberly Williams-Paisley played a Sherlock-inspired character on The Flash
Kimberly Williams-Paisley played Renee Adler on The Flash in its fifth season.
Renee is a metahuman with magnetic powers, and the villain Cicada II targets her because of those abilities.
Her name refers to Irene Adler, a character from Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story “A Scandal in Bohemia.”
Renee also has a romantic relationship with Harrison Sherloque Wells, a detective on Team Flash from another Earth.
Their pairing echoes Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler, who are intellectual rivals in the original stories, though some adaptations make them romantic.
Williams-Paisley also played four of Sherloque Wells's former wives, all doppelgangers of Renee.
She had already worked with Tom Cavanagh on the Hallmark film series Darrow & Darrow before appearing on The Flash in 2019; their final movie together, Witness to Murder: A Darrow Mystery, came out later that year.
Kimberly Williams-Paisley played Renee Adler, a metahuman with magnetic powers, in Season 5 of The Flash.
Renee was named after Irene Adler, a character in the Sherlock Holmes story A Scandal in Bohemia.
On the show, Renee had a romantic relationship with Harrison Sherloque Wells, a detective played by Tom Cavanagh.
Williams-Paisley also played four of Sherloque Wells’s ex-wives, who were all doppelgangers of Renee.
Williams-Paisley and Cavanagh had previously worked together on the Darrow & Darrow TV movie series.
- Who
- Kimberly Williams-Paisley played Renee Adler, a metahuman in The Flash.
- What
- She portrayed a Sherlock Holmes-inspired character with magnetic powers.
- When
- In Season 5 of The Flash. She appeared on the show in early 2019.
- Where
- The Flash, part of the Arrowverse.
- Why
- Renee was named after Irene Adler from A Scandal in Bohemia, and her relationship with Sherloque Wells echoed the Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler pairing.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
The first three Darrow & Darrow movies were released.
Williams-Paisley appeared in The Flash as Renee Adler.
Witness to Murder: A Darrow Mystery, the final movie in the franchise, debuted.
- Character
- Renee Adler
- Show and season
- The Flash, Season 5
- Power
- Magnetic powers
- Sherloque Wells actor
- Tom Cavanagh
- Darrow & Darrow movies
- Four total