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Nyad is a 2023 American biographical sports drama film about swimmer Diana Nyad's multiple attempts in the early 2010s to swim the Straits of Florida, with flashbacks to her early life. It is directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin (in their feature narrative film directorial debut ) and written by Julia Cox on the basis of Nyad's ...
Annette Bening and Jodie Foster have Oscar nominations for roles in “NYAD,” a screenplay by Falmouth's Julia Cox about a 110-mile open ocean swim. ... “I try to get inside the character and ...
The brand-new film Nyad, streaming now on Netflix, stars Annette Bening as swimmer Diana Nyad. It follows Nyad's attempts to swim from Cuba to Florida, which she first tried in 1978 at age 28 ...
In “Nyad,” the titular character is entitled, mean, self-centered and treats people around her terribly… and she’s our hero? Supporting actors Jodie Foster and Rhys Ifans manage to keep ...
Nyad tells the story of Diana Nyad, a marathon swimmer who broke records and achieved a number of firsts in the sport.At the age of 60, she decided to complete the feat she wasn’t able to when ...
Nyad was born in New York City on August 22, 1949, to Lucy Winslow Curtis (1925–2007) [10] and stockbroker William L. Sneed Jr. Her mother was a great-granddaughter of Charlotte N. Winslow, the inventor of Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup, a popular morphine-based medicine for children's teething pain that was manufactured from 1849 until the 1930s. [11]
Year Title Role Notes Ref. 1988 The Great Outdoors: Kate Craig Film debut [1]1989 Valmont: Marquise de Merteuil [2]1990 The Grifters: Myra Langtry [3]Postcards from the Edge
In a piece titled “‘Nyad’ on Netflix: The Swim, the Scandal, the Silence,” the swimming organization, which published an exhaustively researched report on Nyad's swim, advised viewers of ...