Famous model and actress loved and adopted as "Wonder Woman": Who is Gal Gadot?
At the age of 20, she served as a soldier for two years. Thanks to this military background, she managed to star in the Fast and the Furious movie series. Here is Gal Gadot, the famous Israeli model and actress, and her career...
Gal Gadot was born on April 30, 1985 in Petah Tikva, Israel. Later, she grew up in the city of Rosh HaAyin. Her father is Michael Gadot, an engineer, and her mother is Irit Gadot, a physical education teacher. Their ancestors were Jews who had emigrated from Europe. Gadot was an athletic girl who studied dance and played various sports in his youth.
Gadot won the 2004 Miss Israel pageant at the age of 18, and then competed for Israel in the Miss Universe 2004 pageant held in Ecuador that year. Thus began her modeling career, she. She became the second most admired and highest-paid model in Israel after Bar Refaeli.
Gadot served two years as a soldier in the Israel Defense Forces, which she joined at the age of 20. After her military service, Gadot chose to study law at IDC Herzliya in Israel, although she wanted to be a choreographer. In 2007, Gadot, then 21, took part in the Maxim photo shoot "Women of the Israel Defense Forces" and was later featured on the cover of the New York Post.
After Gadot completed her first year at college, a casting director contacted her to audition for the role of Camille Montes in the James Bond movie Quantum of Solace. Despite losing the role, a few months later Gadot was cast in the 2008 Israeli drama "Bubot". Three months later, the casting director of the Quantum of Solace audition cast Gadot for the role of Gisele Yashar in the Fast and the Furious action movie, the fourth installment in the Fast and the Furious series. She also said that her military background helped her win the role of Gisele Yashar in the movie Fast and the Furious. It can be said that the actress' Hollywood career started with her role as Gisele in Fast and Furious.
As a model, she was one of the models of Castro, Israel's largest clothing company, from 2008 to 2016. She has led many international campaigns as a model. She has appeared on the cover of many fashion, women's and entertainment magazines.
She had a small role in the action comedy Date Night in 2010. She then starred in the action adventure comedy Knight and Day. 2011 brought her back to the Fast & Furious franchise, and she reprized her role as Gisele in Fast Five. She revived the character in Fast & Furious 6 in 2013.
Gadot played Wonder Woman in the superhero movie Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016). While preparing for the role, Gadot received many trainings such as swordsmanship, Kung Fu, kickboxing. The superhero performance, Gadot's first appearance in the movie, was chosen as one of the best parts of the movie. And she became a world-renowned star for her role.
She also had a small role in 2016 in John Hillcoat's crime thriller Triple 9, where she co-starred with Kate Winslet and Aaron Paul. Later that year, she starred as the wife of Ryan Reynolds' character in the action crime thriller Criminal. His last movie of 2016 was the action comedy "Keeping Up with the Joneses" in which he played a secret agent.
In 2017, Gadot was placed at number one on FHM's "100 Sexiest Women in the World" list. In 2017, Gadot starred in a solo movie for her character Wonder Woman. She reprized her role in the movie Justice League, which was released in November 2017. In 2018, Time magazine named Gadot one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Forbes magazine ranked her as the tenth highest-paid actress in the world, with annual earnings of $10 million.
In 2018, Gadot became a brand ambassador for Revlon and Reebok. She has appeared in advertisements for revlon's "Live Boldly" campaign and Reebok's "Be More Human" campaign. In 2020, Forbes named Gadot the third highest-paid actress in the world with annual earnings of $31.5 million.
In 2021, Gadot co-starred with Dwayne Johnson and Ryan Reynolds in the Netflix action comedy Red Notice, written and directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber. The following year, she starred in the 2022 mystery film "Death on the Nile", also directed by Branagh. Gadot will play the Evil Queen in the live action adaptation of Disney's 1937 animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, as well as a remake and starring of Alfred Hitchcock's 1955 film To Catch a Thief.
Private life
On September 28, 2008, while the shooting of Fast and Furious was in progress, the Israeli businessman married real estate agent Jaron Varsano. The couple had 3 daughters from this marriage. The duo founded their own film-television production company, Pilot Wave, in 2019.
Gadot is an avid martial artist with a black belt in both karate and krav maga. She also loves motorcycles and owns a 2006 Ducati Monster-S2R.