How to Use Helen of Troy in a Sentence

Helen of Troy

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• Helen of Troy in this film is played by Lupita Nyong’o who is Black.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
• Just like her husband, Helen of Troy also offers to help Telemachus.
  — Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 18 July 2026
• Tom Holland plays their son, Telemachus; Lupita Nyong’o plays Helen of Troy.
  — Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 22 May 2026
• Helen of Troy is a Greek mythological character who doesn't appear in Homer's epic.
  — Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 21 July 2026
• Lupita Nyong’o, who plays Helen of Troy, delivered some of the tour’s most regal fashion moments.
  — Alex Badia, Footwear News, 21 July 2026
• Lupita Nyong’o takes on two roles in The Odyssey as twin sisters Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra.
  — Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 18 July 2026
• Nyong'o joins The Odyssey in a dual role, as Helen of Troy and Helen's sister, Clytemnestra.
  — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 3 July 2026
• Nolan has also double cast Lupita N’yongo as both Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra, which people are angry about in a baseline racist way.
  — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 23 June 2026
• Helen of Troy & Clytemnestra While both are minor characters in Homer’s poem, Nolan’s made a few changes to the characters.
  — Marlow Stern, Variety, 17 July 2026
• Nolan cast Lupita Nyong'o as Helen of Troy, the daughter of a Kenyan politician who was born in Mexico City.
  — Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 6 July 2026
• Ornately woven with see-through elements, the bold design embodied both Helen of Troy’s complexity and famed beauty.
  — Julia Teti, Footwear News, 14 July 2026
• These critics lamented not only Page's participation, but the choice of Lupita Nyong'o as Helen of Troy.
  — Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 30 June 2026
• Helen of Troy, whose abduction started the Trojan war, and her sister Clytemnestra, who connives to murder her husband Agamemnon.
  — Jim Beckerman, USA Today, 16 July 2026
• Jon Bernthal stars as the Greek king of Sparta, Menelaus, who is also Agamemnon’s brother and Helen of Troy’s husband.
  — Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 18 July 2026
• Both Hathaway and Nyong’o said the film had given depth and humanity to their iconic characters of Penelope and Helen of Troy and gone behind the myth.
  — Nada Aboul Kheir, Deadline, 6 July 2026
• For his first Nolan film, Bernthal plays Menelaus, husband to Helen of Troy, brother to Agamemnon, and the Greek king of Sparta.
  — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 3 July 2026
• In the Time profile, Nolan also confirmed that Lupita Nyong'o will portray both Helen of Troy and her sister Clytemnestra in the new movie.
  — Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 12 May 2026
• The Time profile also confirmed that Lupita Nyong'o is playing Helen of Troy, as well as the character's twin sister Clytemnestra.
  — Jack Smart, PEOPLE, 13 May 2026
• His commentary on the film dates to January, when rumors of Lupita Nyong’o’s casting as Helen of Troy first began circulating.
  — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 22 July 2026
• Actress Lupita Nyong'o will portray Helen of Troy in Christopher Nolan's upcoming retelling of The Odyssey.
  — Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 22 May 2026
• Questions about the film’s treatment of race sparked by the casting of Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra are largely beside the point, according to Zacharia.
  — Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 22 July 2026
• Helen of Troy is a pivotal figure in the ancient Greek epic poems known as Homer's The Iliad and Odyssey, the latter of which serves as the basis for Nolan's new movie.
  — Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 15 May 2026
• Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong’o, confirmed to be playing a dual role as both Helen of Troy and her half sister Clytemnestra, has received perhaps the most clamorous backlash.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 6 July 2026
• Webb, founder and co-chief executive officer of hair brand Messy — who previously launched and sold salon chain Drybar to Helen of Troy for $255 million — echoed the sentiment.
  — Ryma Chikhoune, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
• Some scholars have pushed back against claims that Nyong’o’s casting is historically inaccurate, because Helen of Troy is a mythological figure and the ancient Greeks did not have a modern concept of race.
  — Conor Murray, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
• Married to King Menelaus, Helen of Troy’s abduction or elopement with Paris, depending on the translation, triggered the 10-year war in Greek mythology.
  — Julia Teti, Footwear News, 14 July 2026
• Most notably, public figures like Elon Musk have amplified racist criticism of Lupita Nyong’o’s role in the movie as Helen of Troy as well as Elliot Page‘s casting.
  — Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 13 July 2026
• Helen of Troy is more commonly associated with Homer's The Iliad due to her role in the Trojan War, during which The Iliad takes place.
  — Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 12 May 2026
• Under the styling of Micaela Erlanger, Oscar-winner Lupita Nyong’o’s promo wardrobe went full Helen of Troy, merging power and precision in equal measure.
  — Julia Teti, Footwear News, 14 July 2026
• Helen of Troy, a character more commonly associated with Homer's The Illiad, appears in Homer's Odyssey in one scene with the character Telemachus.
  — Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 3 Feb. 2026