Diana Nyad is an American author, journalist, motivational speaker, and long-distance swimmer. Nyad gained national attention in 1975 when she swam around Manhattan and in 1979 when she swam from ...

Diana Nyad had already secured her reputation as one of the greatest marathon swimmers in the world, and she had nothing to prove to anybody—except herself. A member of the U.S. National Women's ...

Annette Bening as Diana Nyad, wearing a swim cap and smiling in the water by a boat in Nyad Image via Netflix Netflix is set to tell the miraculous and astounding true story of Diana Nyad in the ...

The biopic chronicles the life of long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad, who swam from Cuba to Miami at the age of 64. NPR's Michel Martin talks to Nyad director Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi. It was a feat of ...

On September 2, 2013, Diana Nyad finally accomplished the goal that had eluded her for more than 30 years: becoming the first person to swim from Havana, Cuba, to Key West, Florida, without a shark ...

Diana Nyad's crazy dream of swimming from Cuba to Florida began as a little girl, standing on the shores of Fort Lauderdale Beach. Thousands of Cuban refugees had just arrived to South Florida after ...

Diana Nyad had been a world-class endurance athlete for years when, after swimming around Manhattan in a little under eight hours in 1975, she became a celebrity and a talk-show staple. At the age of ...

In many ways, “Nyad” is the biopic its title character, open-water swimmer Diana Nyad, seems to have been mentally starring in for most of her adult life. A familiar figure to anyone who came of age ...

'Free Solo' directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin smoothly transition from docs to narrative with this true-life sports story about long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad's Cuba-to-Florida trek ...

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“Nyad” is a triumph of the human spirit film, a crowd-pleasing sports drama about achieving the near impossible. It is no surprise that marathon swimmer Diana Nyad (Annette Bening) will realize her ...