Shadow and Bone: Complete Cast and Character Guide
Netflix fantasy series Shadow and Bone stars Jessie Mei Li, Ben Barnes and Archie Renaux. Here's a complete guide to the cast and characters.
Shadow and Bone (2021)
Based on Leigh Bardugo's bestselling Grishaverse novels, Netflix's Shadow and Bone follows the story of Alina Starkov, an orphan and soldier who has released a power that could potentially set her country free. Instead, Alina joins an elite army of soldiers known as the Grisha as the Shadow Fold, an area of mysterious darkness that grows each year, threatening to envelop her world. Alina quickly learns that nothing is as it seems, and it will take more than the power of magic to make it through.
Shadow and Bone
- Cast
- Daisy Head , Kit Young , Julian Kostov , Ben Barnes , Jessie Mei Li , Simon Sears , Gabrielle Brooks , Amita Suman , Kevin Eldon , Danielle Galligan , Jasmine Blackborrow , Freddy Carter , zoe wanamaker , Sujaya Dasgupta , Luke Pasqualino , Archie Renaux , Calahan Skogman
- Release Date
- April 23, 2021
- Seasons
- 2
- Writers
- Eric Heisserer , Vanya Asher , Daegan Fryklind , Shelley Meals , Christina Strain , M. Scott Veach , Donna Thorland , Erin Conley , Nick Culbertson
- Directors
- Mairzee Almas , Lee Toland Krieger , Jeremy Webb , Bola Ogun , Karen Gaviola , Laura Belsey , Dan Liu
- Showrunner
- Eric Heisserer
- Story By
- eric heisserer, vanya asher
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