Gal Gadot Early Life, Age, Family, Boyfriend, Affairs, Facts, Wiki, Career, Pageant, Bio, Other Work, Personal Life, Filmography, Modeling, Biography

Name: Gal Gadot 

Birth date: 30 of April 1985 (33 y.o.) 

Place of birth: Petah Tikva, Israel 

Height: 178 cm 

Weight: 50 kg 

Birth Sign: Taurus 

Chinese zodiac: Ox 

Occupation: actress, model

Early life


Gal Gadot was born in Petah Tikva, Israel, and raised in its neighbouring city of Rosh HaAyin. In Hebrew, her first name means "wave" and her surname means "riverbanks". Her parents are Irit (née Weiss), a teacher, and Michael Gadot, an engineer. Both her parents were born in Israel, and they Hebraized their surname from "Greenstein" to "Gadot" prior to her birth. Her father is a sixth-generation Israeli. Her maternal grandparents were born in Europe; her grandfather, who was imprisoned in the Auschwitz concentration camp, survived the Holocaust, and her grandmother left before the Nazi invasion. Gadot has stated that she was brought up in a "very Jewish, Israeli family environment". Her ancestry is Polish-Jewish, Austrian-Jewish, German-Jewish, and Czech-Jewish. She has one younger sister, Dana.

Her high school major was biology. She says that in high school she was good at basketball because of her height. As a teenager, her first jobs were babysitting and at Burger King. As an adult, Gadot studied law and international relations at the IDC Herzliya college.

Gadot served for two years as an enlisted soldier in the Israel Defense Forces, as a combat instructor. She said of her time in the Israeli military: "You give two or three years, and it's not about you. You learn discipline and respect."Gadot says that her background helped her to win the role of Gisele in Fast & Furious: "I think the main reason was that the director Justin Lin really liked that I was in the military, and he wanted to use my knowledge of weapons."

Career

Modeling and pageant career

At age 18, Gadot won the 2004 Miss Israel beauty pageant, and next competed in the Miss Universe 2004 pageant in Ecuador. She carried out her two-year military service from the age of 20, then studied law.

Gadot has led international campaigns as a model for Miss Sixty, Huawei smartphones, Captain Morgan rum, Guccifragrances and Vine Vera skincare ranges, and Jaguar Cars. In 2015, she became the face of Gucci's Bamboo perfume brand. She has been featured as the covergirl on Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Bride Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, UMM, Cleo, Fashion, Lucire, FHM. Gadot has been the main model for fashion brand Castro in 2008–16. In 2013, her combined annual modelling and acting salary was estimated at NIS 2.4 million, which was ahead of a number of other famous Israeli models such as Esti Ginzburg and Shlomit Malka, though significantly behind Bar Refaeli.

In 2007, 21-year-old Gadot was in the Maxim photo shoot, "Women of the IDF", and was then 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. In 2014, Gadot was one of two Israeli actresses, along with Odeya Rush, listed as an upcoming leading lady by InStyle magazine.

Acting

After Gadot had completed her first year of college, a casting director contacted her agent to have Gadot audition for the part of Bond girl Camille Montes in the spy film Quantum of Solace. Although the part eluded her, a few months later, Gadot starred in the 2008 Israeli drama Bubot. Three months later, the casting director from her Quantum of Solace audition cast Gadot for the role of Gisele Yashar in the action film Fast & Furious, the fourth film in The Fast & the Furious franchise, having earned the role over six other actresses. Gadot performed her own stuntwork in those films.

In 2010, she had small roles in the action-comedy Date Night and the action-adventure comedy Knight and Day. 2011 brought her back to The Fast & the Furious franchise, reprising her role as Gisele in Fast Five, and in 2013's Fast & Furious 6.

Gadot played Wonder Woman in the superhero movie Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016). Gadot received swordsmanship, Kung Fu, kickboxing, capoeira and Brazilian jiu-jitsu training in preparation for the role. Gadot's performance as the superhero, which is the first time for the character on film, was hailed as one of the best parts of the film.

Also in 2016, she had a small role in John Hillcoat's crime-thriller Triple 9, where she starred along with Kate Winslet and Aaron Paul. Later that year, she co-starred in the action crime thriller film Criminal, as the wife of Ryan Reynolds' character, alongside Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman, and Tommy Lee Jones. Her final film of 2016 was the action comedy Keeping Up with the Joneses, in which she played a secret agent, alongside Isla Fisher and Jon Hamm.

In 2017, Gadot starred in a solo film for her character, Wonder Woman. She reprised the role in the ensemble film Justice League, which was released on 17 November 2017, and was her third DC Extended Universe installment. In 2017 Gadot was also invited to become a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Gadot will provide the voice of Shank in the upcoming Wreck-It Ralph sequel Ralph Breaks the Internet.

Other work

Gadot, fellow Wonder Woman actress Lynda Carter, DC Entertainment President Diane Nelson, Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins and U.N. Under-Secretary General Cristina Gallach appeared at the United Nations on 21 October 2016, the 75th anniversary of the first appearance of Wonder Woman, to mark the character's designation by the United Nations as its "Honorary Ambassador for the Empowerment of Women and Girls". The gesture was intended to raise awareness of UN Sustainable Development Goal No. 5, which seeks to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls by 2030. The decision was met with protests from UN staff members who stated in their petition to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon that the character is "not culturally encompassing or sensitive", and served to objectify women. As a result, the character was stripped of the designation, and the project ended 16 December.

Gadot was also featured in the music video for Maroon 5's 2018 single "Girls like You". In July 2018, during a break in filming Wonder Woman 1984, Gadot visited a Virginia children's hospital in costume as Wonder Woman.

Personal life

Gadot married Israeli real estate developer Yaron Varsano in 2008. They have two daughters.

Until 2015, Gadot and her husband owned a boutique hotel in Tel Aviv, which Gadot says she helped to run, including changing the bedsheets in the rooms herself. They sold their hotel to Roman Abramovich in 2015 for $26 million.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2009	Fast & Furious	Gisele Yashar
2010	Date Night	Natanya
	Knight and Day	Naomi
2011	Fast Five	Gisele Yashar
2013	Fast & Furious 6
2014	Kicking Out Shoshana	Mirit Ben Harush	Israeli film
2015	Furious 7	Gisele Yashar	Deleted scene
2016	Triple 9	Elena Vlaslov
	Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice	Diana Prince / Wonder Woman
	Criminal	Jill Pope
	Keeping Up with the Joneses	Natalie Jones
2017	Wonder Woman	Diana Prince / Wonder Woman
	Justice League
2018	Ralph Breaks the Internet	Shank (voice)	Post-production
2019	Wonder Woman 1984	Diana Prince / Wonder Woman	Filming; also producer

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2007	Bubot	Miriam "Merry" Elkayam	Israeli series
2009	Entourage	Lisa	Episode: "Amongst Friends"
	The Beautiful Life	Olivia	3 episodes
2011	Asfur	Kika	Israeli series
2012	Kathmandu	Yamit Bareli
	Eretz Nehederet	Herself
2017	Saturday Night Live	Herself (host)	Episode: "Gal Gadot / Sam Smith"

Music videos

Year	Title	Artist
2018	"Girls Like You"	Maroon 5 featuring Cardi B

Commercials

Company	Year	Promoting	Region	Ref.
Castro	2009–14	Fashion	Israel
Vine Vera	2013	Cosmetics	United States
Careline	2014–15	Cosmetics	Israel
Huawei	2015	Smartphone: Huawei P9	Israel
Kering	2015	Fragrance: Gucci Bamboo	United States
Erroca	2017	Sunglasses	Israel
Wix		Website	United States
GTArcade		Video game: League of Angels: Paradise Island	China
Revlon	2018	Cosmetics	United States
Huawei	2018	Smartphone: Huawei P20	United States
Reebok	2018	Sportswear	Worldwide
Asus	2018	Electronics	Worldwide

Pageants

Year	Title	Status	Notes
2004	Miss Israel 2004	Herself	Winner
	Miss Universe 2004	Miss Israel	Participant