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Young Woman and the Sea
Defy the odds.
This is the extraordinary true story of Trudy Ederle, the first woman to successfully swim the English Channel. Through the steadfast support of her older sister and supportive trainers, she overcame adversity and the animosity of a patriarchal society to rise through the ranks of the Olympic swimming team and complete the 21-mile trek from France to England.
  • Released on 05/31/2024 (Movie)
  • 7.9 out of 10 (227 votes on TMDB)
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Daisy Ridley

Character's name: "Trudy Ederle"
Birthday: 04/10/1992
Birthplace: Westminster, London, England, UK
Biography:
Daisy Jazz Isobel Ridley (born 10 April 1992) is an English actress, who rose to prominence for her role as Rey in the Star Wars sequel trilogy: The Force Awakens (2015), The Last Jedi (2017), and The Rise of Skywalker (2019). She also appeared in the mystery film Murder on the Orient Express (2017), played the title character of the romantic drama Ophelia (2018), and has done occasional voice acting, notably the live-action/animated film Peter Rabbit (2018) and video games such as 12 Minutes. Description above from the Wikipedia article Daisy Ridley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Tilda Cobham-Hervey

Character's name: "Meg Ederle"
Birthday: 09/01/1994
Birthplace: Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Biography:
Tilda Cobham-Hervey is an Australian film, TV and theatre actress from Adelaide, South Australia, with a background in circus performing and physical theatre. In 2014 Cobham-Hervey made her film debut at the age of 19 in 52 Tuesdays, a critically-acclaimed independent film directed by Sophie Hyde. She appeared in Hotel Mumbai in 2019, and plays Helen Reddy in the new biopic, I am Woman.

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Stephen Graham

Character's name: "Bill Burgess"
Birthday: 08/03/1973
Birthplace: Kirkby, Lancashire, England, UK
Biography:
Stephen Graham (born August 3, 1973) is a British film and television actor, best known for playing Andrew 'Combo' Gascoigne in This Is England, Al Capone in the HBO series Boardwalk Empire, and Scrum in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.

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Kim Bodnia

Character's name: "Henry Ederle"
Birthday: 04/12/1965
Birthplace: Frederiksberg, Denmark
Biography:
Kim Bodnia (born 12 April 1965) is a Danish actor, writer, and director. He became widely known for his role as police detective Martin Rohde in the Scandinavian crime drama series The Bridge. He became internationally known for his lead role as drug dealer Frank in Nicolas Winding Refn's 1996 directorial debut Pusher. Today he is best known as Konstantin in Phoebe Waller-Bridge's 2018 BBC America spy thriller TV series Killing Eve. In 2009, Bodnia won the 62nd Bodil Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, and in 2014 he won the Monte-Carlo Television Festival Award for Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series. In 2019 he earned a British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Killing Eve.

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Jeanette Hain

Character's name: "Gertrude Ederle"
Birthday: 02/18/1969
Birthplace: Munich, Germany
Biography:
​Jeanette Hain was born in Munich. While studying at the School of Television and Film in Munich, the by chance meeting with director Sherry Hormann made her childhood dream come true by resulting in her first leading part in "Die Cellistin - Liebe und Verhängnis". Since then she has been not only playing in German and international films, but also on stage to highly critical acclaim. She has two children, Jonas (17) and Malou (2) and a dog with a tale but no tail.

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Glenn Fleshler

Character's name: "James Sullivan"
Birthday: 09/05/1968
Birthplace: Queens, New York City, New York, USA
Biography:
Glenn Fleshler is an American theater, television, and film actor. Fleshler was born to a Jewish family and studied acting at New York University's Tisch School of the Performing Arts, from which he has an MFA. He is known for his work on the shows True Detective, Billions and Boardwalk Empire.

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Sian Clifford

Character's name: "Charlotte 'Eppy' Epstein"
Birthday: 04/07/1982
Birthplace: London, England, UK

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Christopher Eccleston

Character's name: "Jabez Wolffe"
Birthday: 02/16/1964
Birthplace: Salford, Lancashire, England, UK
Biography:
An English stage, film and television actor. His films include Let Him Have It, Shallow Grave, Elizabeth, 28 Days Later, Gone in 60 Seconds, The Others, and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. In 2005, he became the ninth incarnation of The Doctor in the British television series Doctor Who. Description above from the Wikipedia article Christopher Eccleston, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Ethan Rouse

Character's name: "Henry Jr. (Teen)"
Birthday: 09/16/2024

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Olive Elise Abercrombie

Character's name: "Young Trudy Ederle"
Birthday: 06/01/2011
Birthplace: Atlanta, Georgia, USA

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Lilly Aspell

Character's name: "Young Meg Ederle"
Birthday: 10/23/2007
Birthplace: Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland, UK

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Raphael J. Bishop

Character's name: "Young Henry Jr. Ederle"
Birthday: 09/16/2024

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Alex Hassell

Character's name: "Harry Horlick"
Birthday: 09/17/1980
Birthplace: Southend, Essex, England, UK
Biography:
Alexander Stephen Hassell (born 7 September 1980) is an English actor. He is co-founder of The Factory Theatre Company. Hassell was born in Southend, England, the youngest of four, to a vicar. He trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama after completing GCSE and A-Level courses at Moulsham High School, in Chelmsford, Essex. He has appeared in a number of stage roles, most recently as Hal in Henry IV Parts I and II, and Henry in Henry V, for the Royal Shakespeare Company. His first Hollywood role was in George Clooney's Suburbicon (2017), and later that year he appeared in his first major television role in the BBC adaptation of Jessie Burton's The Miniaturist, which first aired on Boxing Day. He also appeared as Translucent in the first season of The Boys (2019) on Amazon Prime Video, and played Vicious in Netflix's Cowboy Bebop in 2021.

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Alexander Karim

Character's name: "Benji Zammit"
Birthday: 05/26/1976
Birthplace: Helsingborg, Malmöhus län, Sweden

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Sebastian Griegel

Character's name: "Horst"
Birthday: 09/16/2024


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