Quick Facts Birth name: Gal Gadot-Varsano [ˈɡal ɡaˈdote] Birth date: April 30, 1985 Birthplace: Rosh Ha’ayin, Israel Hair color: Brown Eye color: Brown Height: 5’10” (1.78 m) Occupation: Actor, Writer, Producer Years active: 1999-present Zodiac sign: Taurus

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Biography

Gal Gadot began her career winning the Miss Israel contest in 2004 at just 19 years old. The beautiful Israeli then decided to start a modeling career after failing the Miss Universe competition.

After several years on the catwalks and magazine covers, Gal Gadot moved to the United States to become an actress. The actress made her big break on the Israeli series Bubot and made herself known. She also got roles on the following US television series: The Beautiful Life and Entourage.

In 2009 Gal got the role that launched her career worldwide. She was casted to play Gisele Harabo in the fourth installment of the hit action saga Fast and Furious. The character was an associate to the main villain of this film, the drug dealer Arturo Braga. Gal’s character changed sides and joined the “good guys” in the following film installmentss, Fast and Furious 5, 6 and 7 released in 2011, 2013 and 2015.

In the meantime, Gal got casted in other projects including Keeping Up with the Joneses with Zach Galifianakis and Jon Hamm, then a stint in the comedy Crazy Night with Steve Carell and Tina Fey in Crazy Night, before joining Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz in Night and Day.

Her biggest hit in Hollywood came when she was chosen to play the iconic character Diana Prince aka Wonder-Woman, the violent and sexy super-heroine from DC‘s famous comics. The Amazon got her own feature film in 2017 and soon after joined The Justice League, a series of blockbusters bringing together Batman, Superman, Aquaman and Wonder-Woman under the same banner. The first film in this series is Batman v Super: Dawn of Justice where Gal Gadot faced Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill alias Batman and Superman.

Gal is currently partnered with Revlon and Reebok promoting their new products as well as working on the new Wonder Woman 1984 film and making her way to becoming a household name.

Facts & Trivia

1. Gal studied law at the university where she planned to be a lawyer.
2. At the age of 19, she was elected Miss Israel in 2004 and represented her country at the Miss Universe beauty contest the same year, where she finished 15th.
3. Gal is the first non-American actress to play the role of Diana Prince / Wonder Woman.
4. She loves basketball, volleyball, dodgeball (the sporty variant of the ball to prisoners) tennis.
5. Gal performed her compulsory military service in the Israel Defense Forces. She was a combat instructor for young recruits.
6. She owns a Ducati Monster-S2R black bike dating from 2006.
7. She has described her family background as “1/4 Polish, 1/4 Austrian, 1/4 German, and 1/4 Czech”.
8. Her name means “wave” in Hebrew and her last name is “river bank” or “shores”.
9. She is an Israeli actress and fashion model.
10. Her father is an engineer and her mother is a teacher.
11. After finishing her first year at university, a casting director who saw her card called her to audition for the part of Bond girl Camille Montes in the film Quantum of Solace. She failed to win the part which went instead to Olga Kurylenko (who would years later also compete with Gadot in the audition for the part of Wonder Woman). However, as a result of the audition for Quantum of Solace, the casting director instead hired Gadot for the role of Gisele in Fast & Furious.
12. In 2007, the 21 year old Gadot took a part in the Maxim photo shoot “Women of the Israeli army,” and as such she featured on the cover of the New York Post. In April 2012, Shalom Life ranked her Number 5 on its list of “the 50 most talented, intelligent, funny, and gorgeous Jewish women in the world”, behind model Bar Refaeli and actress Eva Green.
13. She has led international campaigns for Captain Morgan rum, Gucci fragrances and Vine Vera skincare ranges, and advertised Jaguar Cars.
14. She says that at high school she was successful at basketball due to her height of 5 ft 10 in.
15. To transition from a fashion model body-type, to play the role of the action hero Wonder Woman, Gadot says that she has had to put on 17 pounds of muscle. She says she built up the muscle through doing kung fu, kick boxing, sword fighting, snd ju jitsu.
16. Was close friends with her Fast & Furious co-star Paul Walker.
17. She was offered to portray Faora in Man of Steel (2013), but turned it down due of her pregnancy at that time.
18. In 2012, Gal Gadot was ranked number 5 by Shalom Life in the top 50 most intelligent, talented, funny and beautiful Jewish women in the world.
19. Currently she is the second highest paid Israeli model in the world. She is second only to Bar Refaeli.

Quotes

Some quotes by Gal.

I think women are amazing for being able to show what they feel. I admire women who do. I think it’s a mistake when women cover their emotions to look tough. I say let’s own who we are and use it as a strength.

Let me start by saying I wish no country had the need for an army. But in Israel, serving is part of being an Israeli. You’ve got to give back to the state. You give two or three years, and it’s not about you. You give your freedom away. You learn discipline and respect.

At the end of the day, Wonder Woman is a peace seeker. But when fight arrives, she can fight. She’s a warrior, and she enjoys the adrenaline of the fight.

What’s so lovely about Wonder Woman is yes, she has the strength and power of a goddess, but she has the heart and mind of a human. So I play her as I think a woman like me would act in the situations she’s going through. You treat her as a normal woman who happens to be fantastic and almighty.

It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.

For me, it was important Wonder Woman wouldn’t be a Goody Two-Shoes. She has a little bit of attitude, and when she fights, she has a smirk on her face. I didn’t want her to be polished. I want people to relate to her.

I try to eat healthy. But sometimes, though, I eat cheeseburgers. That’s good for the soul. I make sure to balance everything out. I drink tons of water.

If things had gone according to my plans, I’d be a lawyer. I never dreamt of being an actress.

All my life, I’ve been working with male directors, which I’ve really enjoyed. And I’m lucky in that I’ve worked with men who have a lot of respect for women. But working with a woman is a different experience. It feels like the communication is different.

A baby comes with such responsibility. Once you become a mother, you always have a guilt trip. You always try to do the best, but you feel you can always be better.

I like the lasso of truth. There is something so beautiful about the fact that people have to tell the truth when they have the lasso around them. And it’s not too violent.