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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 ...
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]
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 ...
This is a list of census-designated places in Hawaii. There are no separately incorporated cities in the entire state; Honolulu County is both a city and county. There are 151 census-designated places.
Nyad’s record-setting swims began in the 1970s, gaining her national attention with spots on Saturday Night Live and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. In 1975, she broke the 45-year-old ...
The film, based on Nyad's memoir "Find a Way: The Inspiring Story of One Woman’s Pursuit of a Lifelong Dream," stars Annette Bening as the iconic swimmer as she trained to make the 110-mile trek ...
For the film Six Days Seven Nights, [10] Hawaii stood in for French Polynesia. Among the scenes filmed on Honopū Beach is the one in which Harrison Ford runs from pirates. The arch is also included in the film. [11] Other Hollywood movies filmed in Honopū Valley include Honeymoon in Vegas, Acapulco Gold, and Raiders of the Lost Ark.
A decade after she became the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida, without a shark cage, Diana Nyad’s epic journey has been chronicled in a highly anticipated Netflix biopic.