Gertrude “Trudy” Ederle was the first woman to swim across the English Channel. During a time when female athletes were not taken seriously, she proved critics wrong.

Though Disney’s Young Woman and The Sea commemorates American athlete Gertrude "Trudy" Ederle’s impressive aquatic feat, she continued to have an interesting career after the event. Young ...

Gertrude Ederle died in 2003 at 98 in a New Jersey nursing home. She never married, but she had 10 nieces and nephews (via The New York Times ). Young Woman and the Sea: How Trudy Ederle Conquered ...

On August 6, 1926, American swimmer Gertrude 'Trudy' Ederle took on an unthinkable challenge that would change the landscape of women's sport forever. Trudy started swimming competitively as a ...

Young Woman and the Sea, based on Glenn Stout’s book of the same name, is a biopic about Gertrude “Trudy” Ederle. In 1926, Ederle became the first woman to swim across the English Channel.

Daisy Ridley is back on the big screen with one of her finest works to date in Young Woman and the Sea. Directed by Joachim Rønning, the biographical drama about legendary swimmer Gertrude ...

Joachim Rønning directs the inspirational based-on-truth story of Trudy Ederle, who, in 1926, was the first woman to swim across the English Channel.

In this extraordinary true story, Daisy Ridley stars as accomplished swimmer Gertrude "Trudy" Ederle, who was born to immigrant parents in New York City in 1905.

Trudy Ederle, portrayed by Daisy Ridley, faces a great challenge in "Young Woman and the Sea." ... Years later, Gertrude enrolls Trudy and Meg (Tilda Cobham-Hervey, ...

For Daisy Ridley, acting can be exposure therapy. “I don’t like the open water,” says the star, 32, who nevertheless stars as ocean-swimmer Gertrude “Trudy” Ederle in Young Woman and the ...