Bio

Irene Adler, professionally known as "The Woman", is a dominatrix who has an apparently romantic attraction to Sherlock Holmes.

Whilst Mycroft is telling Sherlock about Irene, he states that she is a dominatrix who gives out 'recreational scolding' to people. She has been in the middle of two political scandals in recent years, one of them involving a famous author, in which she had an affair with both sides.

She is brought to Sherlock's attention when he and John are summoned to Buckingham Palace by Mycroft and are asked to take on a case of national importance. Irene had taken compromising images of a young female member of the British Royal family during a dominatrix session. Even though Irene does not want money or power for the pictures, Sherlock is tasked in getting them back. She is using them, and other information on her mobile phone, for her "protection".

Irene Adler is manipulative, devious, enigmatic, and clever enough to even give Sherlock Holmes a run for his money. She stalls Sherlock on a number of occasions, leading him to false conclusions. She likes to 'misbehave' and gathers all sorts of incriminating information so as to continue to 'misbehave'. Irene is not above blackmail, although she refers to it as 'insurance'. She can be ruthless, cold and fierce at times but showed emotional intelligence towards the likes of Sherlock Holmes. If a person is able to make her fear them, they have almost complete control over her, as evidenced by her allowing herself to be callously manipulated by Jim Moriarty.

When she and Sherlock meet, she displays her more caring and ingenious attributes. She asserts herself as a notorious flirt, though she defends herself by correcting John when he states she flirted with Sherlock; as he never replied, she only flirted at him. As a dominatrix, Irene had no problems with being naked in front of men. This proved to be an extremely effective method of blocking Sherlock's scans, which were almost always accurate yet failed completely against her.

She claims that brainy is the new sexy and that she likes detective stories. She also told John that she was gay , though her attraction to Sherlock indicates that she may be fairly flexible. She is a fan of novellas and commented on recently reading "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption".