Character

Nina Zenik

Nina Zenik in Shadow and Bone (2021), played by Danielle Galligan.

Nina Zenik is a Heartrender, a Grisha with the rare ability to manipulate the human heart and body from a distance, thrown in with a crew of Ketterdam criminals on a dangerous job. She's sharp-tongued, sensual, deeply loyal to her own kind, and unafraid to flirt her way out of trouble or into it.

Danielle Galligan plays Nina with a hungry, unapologetic appetite for life — for food, for pleasure, for a good fight — that makes her feel like the warmest presence in a very cold world. The writing gives her real ideological stakes as a Grisha among those who'd hunt her, and Galligan never lets the charm outrun the conviction underneath it.

Nina Zenik is a Corporalnik Grisha soldier from Ravka who joined the Dregs, and one of the protagonists of the Six of Crows duology. She worked at the House of the White Rose and used her Heartrender powers in her services there, before Kaz Brekker recruited her for his crew to break into the Ice Court. She is the only known Corpsewitch.

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Shadow and Bone2021