Adalind Schade

Adalind Schade is a fictional lawyer and one of the main characters from the NBC television series Grimm. Played by actress Claire Coffee, she was introduced in the pilot episode of the series. Adalind made recurring roles throughout the first season, but by season two her character was added to the regular cast list.

Overview
Adalind Schade belongs to a community of supernatural creatures known as Wesen, many of whom are similar to the types of characters featured in old myths, lore and fairytales. Adalind is a Hexenbiest, which is a type of witch/ogress.

Biography
Adalind Schade was a lawyer who worked for a prestigious law firm in Portland, Oregon. As a Hexenbiest, she had an arrangement with the captain of the Portland Police Bureau, Sean Renard.

When one of Captain Renard's homicide detectives, Nick Burkhardt, awakened to the calling of being a Grimm, his newfound abilities enabled him to see Adalind in her true form. Adalind was the first Wesen that Nick took note of and he first saw her when she was crossing the street near a jewelry store that he was visiting.

Captain Renard became aware that Nick was a Grimm and feared that his skills might pose a problem for himself and other Wesen. He instructed Adalind to assassinate Nick's ailing aunt, Marie Kessler - a Grimm herself. Adalind infiltrated the Spruce Medical Center as a doctor and entered the intensive care unit where Kessler had been admitted following an attack by a Hässlich. She tried to inject the comatose Marie with spider toxin, but Nick stopped her, forcing her to leave the scene. She reported her failure back to Captain Renard.