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Brit actress Lily Cole to play Helen of Troy on stage

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British supermodel-turned-actress Lily Cole will be making her full fledged theatre debut as Helen of Troy in poet Simon Armitage's theatrical reworking of 'The Iliad'.

The 26-year-old beauty will star in Armitage's play 'The Last Days of Troy' in Manchester's Royal Exchange theatre and in London's Shakespeare's Globe on 8 May and 10 June respectively, the BBC reported.

'The Moth Diaries' star will play "the world's most beautiful woman" in the "visceral reworking" of Homer's epic poem about the Trojan War.

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First Published: Feb 12 2014 | 12:17 PM IST

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