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Countess Andrenyi, a young woman of around twenty, is a Hungarian noble married to Count Andrenyi. It’s revealed at the end of the novel that her real name is Helena Goldenberg, and that she’s Sonia Armstrong’s sister.
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During the events on board the Orient Express, Helena is twenty years old. She is the younger sister of Sonia Armstrong and the second daughter of Linda Arden. She had married her Rudolf Andreyi one year before the events on board the train. Prior to her marriage, Helena, being in her teens, lived for some time with her elder sister who had married...
Murder on the Orient Express
In the 1974 film, Countess Andrenyi is played by Jacqueline Bisset. During her interview with Poirot, she says that her maiden name is Grunwald, and that her family is of German extraction. Poirot later deduces that her maiden name is actually Greenwood, and that she is the younger sister of Sonia Armstrong. This is unlike the novel, where her maiden name is Goldenberg. In the murder scene, her husband Count Andrenyi received the dagger from Greta Ohlsson, and handed it to her. She seemed hes...
Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express video game
In the 2006 video game adaptation, the countess is voiced by Leigh-Allyn Baker. According to her details on the joint passport held by her husband, her date of birth is 1 June 1914. Her full name is Elena Maria Andrenyi. This makes her age and name the same as in the book. However her maiden name is not given in this passport, unlike in the novel and the 1974 film, neither is there a grease spot which obscures the first letter "H". However her suitcase had her initials on it covered over with...
Agatha Christie's Poirot: Murder on the Orient Express
In the 2010 adaptation, the countess is played by Elena Satine. As in the original novel, she is travelling on her husband's passport. There is also a grease spot perhaps obscuring the first letter of her first name, so that it reads "Elena". Her maiden name in this adaptation is Wassersteen and not Goldenberg. Earlier on, when Poirot asked Princess Dragomirofffor the real name of Linda Arden, she had said "Waterstone"--an English translation of Wassersteen. This is a parallel of the same plo...
In the novel, Countess Andrenyi is very beautiful. She has large, dark brown, almond-shaped eyes with black lashes, jet-black hair, pallor-pale skin, scarlet lips, and manicured hands with deep red nails. She is about 20 years old. She wears a small chic black toque perched at an outrageous angle, a tight-fitting black coat, a white satin blouse, a...
According to her passport in the 2001 TV movie, Helena was born on March 17, 1971.Helena Adrenyi from the 2017 film and Frankie Derwent from Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?share the same actress.In the 2017 film, her passport is shown in Hungarian, then French. The English translation for the words inside are:The elegant train of the 1930s, the Orient Express, is stopped by heavy snowfall. A murder is discovered, and Poirot's trip home to London from the Middle East is interrupted to solve the case. The opening chapters of the novel take place primarily in Istanbul.
- Agatha Christie
- 1934
A Hungarian man of around thirty, the Count met and married Helena Goldenberg, known afterward as Countess Andrenyi, while doing diplomatic work in Washington, D.C. Aware of his wife’s direct connection to the Armstrong… read analysis of Count Andrenyi
Dr. Constantine. A Hungarian man of around thirty, the Count met and married Helena Goldenberg, known afterward as Countess Andrenyi, while doing diplomatic work in Washington, D.C. Aware of his wife’s direct connection to the Armstrong family, he’s especially protective of her and squares off against Poirot to try to keep him from questioning her.
Countess Helena Maria Andrenyi, born Helenea Maria Goldberg, is a major protagonist in Agatha Christie's 1934 Hercule Poirot novel, Murder on the Orient Express. She is the wife of Count Andrenyi and the younger sister of Sonia Armstrong.
Character description, analysis and casting breakdown for Countess Elena Andrenyi from Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express.
