Shadowhunters (also known as Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments) is an American fantasy television series that is loosely based on The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare, and developed for television by Ed Decter. It is the second adaptation of the novel series, after the 2013 film The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, which like Shadowhunters was produced by Constantin Film.

Synopsis

Clary Fray has just enrolled at Brooklyn Academy of Arts. On her eighteenth birthday, she learns that she is a Shadowhunter, a human born with angelic blood who protect humans from demons. That night, Clary's mother, Jocelyn, is abducted by a group of rogue Shadowhunters called the Circle. Their leader is Jocelyn's ex-husband, Valentine Morgenstern.

With her mother missing, Clary turns to Luke, a person she trusted, only to seemingly be betrayed. Clary s up with a band of Shadowhunters to save her mother and discovers powers she never knew she possessed. Clary is thrown into the world of demon hunting with the mysterious, narcissistic, and attractive Shadowhunter Jace, and also her loyal and geeky friend Simon. Now living among faeries, warlocks, vampires, and werewolves, Clary begins a journey of self-discovery as she learns more about her past and what her future may hold.

Cast and characters

Main

Katherine McNamara as Clarissa "Clary" Fray

Dominic Sherwood as Jace Herondale

Alberto Rosende as Simon Lewis

Matthew Daddario as Alexander "Alec" Lightwood

Emeraude Toubia as Isabelle "Izzy" Lightwood

Isaiah Mustafa as Luke Garroway

Harry Shum Jr. as Magnus Bane

Recurring

Alan van Sprang as Valentine Morgenstern

Maxim Roy as Jocelyn Fray

Jon Cor as Hodge Starkweather

David Castro as Raphael Santiago

Jade Hassouné as Meliorn

Kaitlyn Leeb as Camille Belcourt

Nicola Correia-Damude as Maryse Lightwood

Paulino Nunes as Robert Lightwood

Jack Fulton as Max Lightwood

Christina Cox as Elaine Lewis

Holly Deveaux as Rebecca Lewis

Stephanie Bennett as Lydia Branwell

Raymond Ablack as Raj

Vanessa Matsui as Dot/Dorothea

Mimi Kuzyk as Imogen Herondale

Joel Labelle as Alaric

Jordan Hudyma as Blackwell

Shailene Garnett as Maureen Brown

Lisa Marcos as Susanna Vargas

Stephen R. Hart as Brother Jeremiah

Curtis Morgan as Pangborn

Nykeem Provo as Young Luke

Nick Sagar as Victor Aldertree

Alisha Wainwright as Maia Roberts

Will Tudor as Sebastian Verlac/Jonathan Morgenstern