Disney Actress Daisy Ridley braves the waves in the new Disney film Young Woman and the Sea. She plays Trudy Ederle, the first woman to swim the English Channel, and tells ABC Audio Ederle was a remar

In the past six months or so, we have had no fewer than three films about female open-water swimmers, said Brian Viner in the Daily Mail.

The Star Wars actor trained rigorously for “Young Woman and the Sea,” Joachim Rønning’s movie about the first woman to swim across the English Channel.

Young Woman and the Sea” star Daisy Ridley had three months to prepare for her role as Gertrude Ederle, the first woman to swim across the English Channel. She began the training buoyed by

A dive into the differences and similarities between the film adaptation and the English Channel swimmer's real life.

Disney’s latest film celebrating the first woman to swim the English Channel has been released on the silver screen. Young Woman and the Sea, which depicts Gertrude Ederle’s landmark swim from France to Kent,

Based on Glenn Stout’s nonfiction account of the same title, “Young Woman and the Sea” gets by on the careful engineering of cliches, Daisy Ridley and a really good piece of irresistibly rousing history.