The Odyssey Cast and Characters: Who's Who in the Christopher Nolan Film

With Christopher Nolan's retelling of Homer’s The Odyssey acceptable to debut successful theaters connected July 17, 2026, we're learning much astir the star-studded formed that volition assistance archer his story. As always, we’re present to interruption down who volition beryllium portion of the film.

Matt Damon stars arsenic Odysseus, and aft the archetypal teaser trailer for The Odyssey and past the 2nd afloat trailer, we person adjacent much info connected the cast, including Tom Holland's Telemachus, Jon Bernthal's King Menelaus, Charlize Theron's Calypso, and adjacent Odysseus' beloved, faithful dog, Argos! Plus determination are the actors we cognize are successful the movie and person heard rumors about, but haven't gotten confirmation connected who they're playing yet, similar Elliot Page (as Achilles?), Lupita Nyong’o (as Helen of Troy?), and more. Oh, and past don't hide the monsters either! Plenty of monsters to look guardant to successful this one.

You tin cheque retired our database of The Odyssey’s formed and characters below, and beryllium definite to cheque backmost often arsenic we volition beryllium updating this database arsenic much details are revealed! You tin besides work our instrumentality connected wherefore Nolan is really the cleanable feline to marque an Odyssey movie oregon wherefore it's OK everyone sounds similar they're speaking modern "American" successful the film.

The Odyssey Cast and Characters

Matt Damon arsenic Odysseus

Matt Damon stars successful Nolan’s adaptation of The Odyssey, playing Odysseus himself. Damon’s sanction was the archetypal to look erstwhile connection of this task surfaced, and his quality successful The Odyssey volition people the 3rd clip the Academy Award-winning histrion has worked with Nolan pursuing Interstellar and Oppenheimer. Odysseus, of course, is the Greek king of Ithaca who has been absent from his location for 20 years, having spent the archetypal 10 years warring (and winning via Trojan Horse) the Trojan War, and the second 10 years trying and failing -- aft landing connected the atrocious broadside of the deity Poseidon -- to get backmost home.

Tom Holland arsenic Telemachus

Tom Holland, Spider-Man himself, plays Odysseus’ lad Telemachus. Telemachus ne'er knew his father, who has been gone since helium was a baby, and arsenic helium transitions into manhood helium is confronted by the suitors -- the assorted men of Ithaca and the surrounding country who are vying to wed Telemachus' mother, Penelope, and inherit Odysseus' land, home, posessions, and fortune. One of the pb suitors successful the movie is Robert Pattinson's Antinous.

Anne Hathaway arsenic Penelope

Academy Award victor Anne Hathaway is different subordinate of this formed who has worked with Nolan much than once, arsenic she starred successful some The Dark Knight Rises and Interstellar. Here she plays Odysseus' long-suffering woman Penelope, who doesn't cognize what happened to her hubby aft helium near for Troy 20 years ago, but present indispensable contend with the suitors who privation to wed her... and possibly privation adjacent much to supplant Odysseus arsenic the ruler of Ithaca. Penelope attempts to support the suitors astatine bay but is moving retired of options erstwhile the communicative starts.

Robert Pattinson arsenic Antinous

Robert Pattinson, who starred alongside John David Washington successful Nolan’s Tenet, plays the main suitor, Antinous. As the 2nd trailer indicates, Antinous has it retired for Telemachus, who helium sees arsenic lasting successful his mode to getting to Penelope -- and Odysseus' inheritance. Too atrocious for Antinous that Odysseus is acold from dead...

Charlize Theron arsenic Calypso

Charlize Theron is different Oscar-winning summation to the formed of The Odyssey. She plays Calypso, the nymph who forces Odysseus to unrecorded with her connected the land of Ogygia for 7 years. If helium stays, she volition springiness him immortality, but helium is driven to instrumentality to his household backmost connected Ithaca.

Jon Bernthal arsenic Menelaus

Jon Bernthal won’t lone beryllium appearing alongside Tom Holland arsenic The Punisher successful Spider-Man: Brand New Day, but he's besides playing Menelaus successful Nolan's film. The quality is the member of Agamemnon -- the person of each the Greeks -- and the king of Sparta, and helium besides happens to beryllium 1 of reasons the Trojan War happened successful the archetypal place, arsenic the Greeks acceptable retired to onslaught Troy aft Menelaus' woman Helen was kidnapped/made disconnected with Paris, 1 of the princes of Troy. Bad idea.

Lupita Nyong’o (rumored to beryllium playing Helen of Troy)

Lupita Nyong’o successful Black Panther

Academy Award victor Lupita Nyong’o of Black Panther, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, 12 Years a Slave, and Us fame is rumored to beryllium playing Helen of Troy successful The Odyssey. As noted, Helen's leaving Menelaus for Troy -- whether it was by prime oregon by unit varies depending connected the mentation of the communicative being told -- is the lawsuit that sparks the Trojan War. She appears concisely successful The Odyssey erstwhile Telemachus visits her and Menelaus portion trying to find retired immoderate caller accusation astir what mightiness person happened to his begetter successful the years since the war.

Zendaya arsenic Athena

Zendaya, who besides appeared successful the Spider-Man films arsenic MJ and is engaged to Tom Holland, volition look successful The Odyssey arsenic Athena. (There is the imaginable for thing beauteous meta to hap successful the Odyssey since determination are moments successful Homer’s epic wherever the quality is disguised arsenic Telemachus, who Holland is playing.) Athena is 1 of the gods who is featured successful The Odyssey, and she has a peculiar involvement successful Odysseus' well-being, watching implicit him and helping him whenever she can.

Benny Safdie arsenic Agamemnon

Although it's a spot hard to marque him retired nether that helmet successful the trailers, THR says that actor-director Benny Safdie volition play Agamemnon successful The Odyssey. Safdie has antecedently worked with Nolan, arsenic helium starred arsenic physicist Edward Teller successful Oppenheimer. As noted above, Agamemnon is the member of Menelaus and the person of the assorted Greek factions successful Troy. He besides faces an unhappy homecoming aft the war, with the communicative of what happened to his household paralleling that of Odysseus successful a skewed way. And Odysseus winds up gathering his tone successful the Underworld astatine 1 point. Like we said, it was an uhappy homecoming for him!

John Leguizamo arsenic Eumaeus the Swineherd

Oh my swineherd! John Leguizamo, known for his enactment successful Moulin Rogue!, Romeo + Juliet, Encanto, Ice Age, and truthful overmuch more, plays Odysseus' faithful servant Eumaeus the swineherd. When Odysseus returns to Ithaca, helium tin spot precise fewer people, but Eumaeus is determination for him -- stake connected it!

Elliot Page (rumored to beryllium playing Achilles)

We cognize Elliot Page (Inception, Juno, The Umbrella Academy, Close to You) is successful The Odyssey, and the trailer might've fixed distant who the histrion is playing: Achilles, the tragic leader from The Iliad who Odysseus encounters successful the Underworld arsenic a shade (as helium does Agamemnon). While this isn't confirmed yet to beryllium the quality Page is playing, it seems similar a bully bet.

Argos

Odysseus' faithful canine Argos, who was a pup erstwhile our leader near for the war, has waited for his maestro for the 20 years since. Their reunion is 1 of the astir effectual scenes successful The Odyssey, and Nolan couldn't assistance but see it successful his movie mentation too. "It is 1 of the top moments successful the story," Nolan precocious told Stephen Colbert. "It's truly 1 of the things that hooked me."

Polyphemus the Cyclops

Perhaps 1 of the best-known characters successful The Odyssey, Polyphemus is the Cyclops who dines connected galore of Odysseus' men. Look, he's holding 1 close determination successful this photo, acceptable to plop him successful his rima similar an appetizer! As the lad of Poseidon, it is Odysseus' run-in with the Cyclops that earns the leader the wrath of the oversea god.

The Laestrygonians

The Laestrygonians are man-eaters, similar successful the Hall & Oates song, lone overmuch worse. They're besides giants, truthful it seems the main quality betwixt them and the Cyclops is successful fig of eyes? Anyway, this depiction of them dressed successful armor seems to diverge from the much savage-like quality that they are typically associated with, but successful immoderate case, they're gonna messiness up Odysseus' fleet -- and men -- large time.

Charybdis

Speaking of messing up Odysseus' mean, Charybdis and Scylla are oversea monsters that enactment successful conjunction with 1 another. As seen here, it looks similar the Charybdis successful Nolan's movie is being depicted arsenic much whirlpool than sea-monster-that-causes-whirlpools... though of course, we'll person to hold for the last movie to find retired for sure.

Other The Odyssey Cast Members

• Himesh Patel (Yesterday, Station Eleven, and The Franchise)
• Bill Irwin (Voice of TARS successful Interstellar, Rustin, and Third Rock from the Sun)
• Samantha Morton (The Serpent Queen, The Entertainment System Is Down, and In America)
• Mia Goth (MaXXXIne)
• Corey Hawkins (The Color Purple, BlackKklansman, and The Walking Dead)
• Jesse Garcia (The Mother and Flamin’ Hot)
• Will Yun Lee (San Andreas and The Good Doctor)
• Rafi Gavron (A Star Is Born and Breaking and Entering)
• Shiloh Fernandez (Evil Dead and Deadgirl)
• Nick Tarabay (Spartacus and The Expanse)
• Jimmy Gonzales (Busboys and Mayans M.C)
• Maurice Compte (Once Upon a Time successful Hollywood and Mayans M.C.)
• Michael Vlamis (Roswell, New Mexico)
• Iddo Goldberg (Snowpiercer)
• Logan Marshall-Green (Prometheus)
• Ryan Hurst (Sons of Anarchy and The Walking Dead)

Other formed members via THR, Variety, and Deadline.

Other The Odyssey Characters Whose Casting We're Still Waiting to Hear About

• Circe, a witch who transforms Odysseus' men into pigs
• Poseidon, deity of the oversea and tormentor of Odysseus
• Laertes, Odysseus' aging father

This communicative primitively ran connected July 2, 2025. It was updated connected May 7, 2026, with the astir caller accusation we person astir The Odyssey.

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