10 December 2020
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The 28-year-old actress is to lead the cast of the new project which is eyeing a release on streaming service Disney+.
Daisy will portray the history-making swimmer Gertrude 'Trudy' Ederle, who became the first woman ever to swim the English Channel as a teenager in 1926.
Ederle, who also won gold at the 1924 Paris Olympic Games, returned to the US as one of the world's most famous women. She received a ticker-tape parade in New York by a crowd of two million people.
She soon disappeared from the public eye after playing herself in the 'Swim Girl' before embarking on an abortive career in vaudeville. After a fall that damaged her spine, Ederle began teaching swimming to children before her death aged 98 in 2003.