Nadia Schilling

Nadia Schilling is a character on Defying Gravity portrayed by Florentine Lahme.
== Biography ==
An ace pilot at the top of her graduating class at ISO, German-born Nadia Schilling is a tough and sexy addition to the Antares crew. Not only does she pride herself on executing her duties on Antares to the best of her abilities, she expects the same of others, including Maddux Donner (with whom she’s had a sex-only relationship for the past several years of training). With the last-minute inclusion of Donner on the mission, Nadia makes it clear to Zoe she has no problem – in fact, even relishes – competing for Donner’s attention over the next six years. The changes Nadia will experience while in space will be the most extreme of all the Antares crew; this hard-edged female pilot has some very interesting layers …
=== 2047 ===
=== 2052 ===
== Family ==
Nadia is from Germany.
== Final Chapter ==
Following the cancellation of the series, James Parriott confirmed how Nadia's story arc would have completed.
Nadia — She had quite the odd hallucinations, didn’t she? Who was that man she kept seeing, and why did he look so much like Nadia? As Parriott revealed to me, some fans of the show got it right in their guess that she was, in fact, a hermaphrodite when she was born. The choice was made for her when she was 11, by her parents, which sex she’d ultimately become. So that man we’re seeing is actually what Nadia would have been, had they chosen to raise her — or him — as a man.
Now, here’s the wild kicker. All those DNA changes that are happening with the crew, caused by Beta and the other objects? Well, they would eventually wind up causing Nadia to gradually turn into a man.
Parriott also said that it was planned for Nadia to really have a more significant presence in season two. “If you see the way we wrote her, she sort of had that male sexuality about her, that ‘fuck ‘em and forget ‘em’ mentality. So we wanted to write her sort of as a male character in a female body.”