Gal gadot
Gal Gadot born 30 April 1985 is an Israeli actress and model. At age 18. She was crowned Miss Israel 2004. She then served in the Israel Defense Forces for two years as a combat fitness instructor. Whereafter she began studying at IDC Herzliya while building her modeling and acting careers.
Her first international film performance was as Gisele Yashar in Fast & Furious 2009. A part she reprised in the sequels Fast Five 2011 and Fast & Furious 6 2013. Gadot went on to achieve global stardom for her portrayal of Wonder Woman in the films of the DC Extended Universe, including Wonder Woman 2017 and Wonder Woman 1984 2020. She has since starred in the Netflix action comedy film Red Notice 2021 and the mystery film Death on the Nile 2022.
Dubbed the "biggest Israeli superstar" by local media outlets. Gadot was included on the list of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time in 2018 and has placed twice in annual rankings of the world's highest paid actresses.
Early life
Gadot was born on 30 April 1985 in Petah Tikva, Israel. where she first lived she was later raised in the city of Rosh HaAyin. In Hebrew her given name means wave and her surname means riverbanks.Her father is Michael Gadot an engineer and her mother is Irit Gadot née Weiss a physical education teacher. Prior to her birth her parents had Hebraized their surname from Greenstein to Gadot her father is a sixth generation Sabra She has a younger sister named Dana. Gadot has stated that she was brought up in a "very Jewish, Israeli family environment"and is of Ashkenazi descent. Her maternal grandparents were born in 20th century Europe her grandfather survived the Holocaust following his imprisonment at the Auschwitz concentration camp during Nazi Germany's occupation of Czechslovakia while her grandmother managed to escape the continent before the outbreak of World War II.
Growing up in Israel Gadot learned and danced jazz and hip-hop for 12 years and her first jobs were working at a local Burger King as well as babysitting. She graduated from Begin High School in Rosh HaAyin majoring in biology. As Jewish high schools in Israel often take their sophomores on trips to Holocaust memorial sites Gadot went to Poland to gain a first hand understanding of two Nazi concentration camps: Auschwitz and Majdanek. About the experience she reminisced .I stood there on top of a mountain of ashes. I an entitled child felt the suffering the Muselmann experienced back then. When it was time to give my speech at the memorial ceremony my eyes filled up with tears and I could not control the shivering. I returned home more mature and cried with my grandfather about that coming a full circle from his childhood to mine.
At age 18 Gadot entered the national beauty pageant Miss Israel under the impression that it would be a fun experience and stated in a Glamour interview: I never thought I would win.At age 20, she enlisted in the Israel Defense Forces as a combat fitness instructor as part of her mandatory two years of military service. She has said that her military background helped her to win the role of Gisele Yashar in the 2009 film Fast & Furious stating: 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. After her military service Gadot studied law at IDC Herzliya in Israel.
Career
At age 18, Gadot won the 2004 Miss Israel beauty pageant and subsequently competed for Israel in the Miss Universe 2004 pageant that took place that year in Ecuador.citation needed
She has led international campaigns as a model for Miss Sixty Huawei smartphones Captain Morgan rum Gucci fragrances Vine Vera skincare 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 was the main model for fashion brand Castro from 2008 to 2016. In 2013, her combined annual modeling and acting salary was estimated at NIS 2.4 million.
In 2007 a then 21 year old Gadot was in the Maxim photo shoot Women of the Israel Defense Forces and was then featured on the cover of the New York Post.
In 2017 Gadot was placed at number one on FHM's 100 Sexiest Women in the World list.
In 2018 Gadot became a brand ambassador for Revlon and Reebok. She appeared in advertisements for Revlon's Live Boldly campaign and Reebok's Be More Human campaign.
Acting
After Gadot had completed her first year of college a casting director contacted her agent to have Gadot audition for the part of Camille Montes in the James Bond film Quantum of Solace. Although she lost the part to Olga Kurylenko a few months later Gadot starred in the 2008 Israeli drama Bubot. Three months later the casting director from her Quantum of Solace audition chose Gadot over six other actresses for the role of Gisele Yashar in the action film Fast & Furious, the fourth film in the Fast & Furious franchise. Gadot performed some of her own stuntwork in those films.
In 2010 she had small roles in the action comedy Date Night and the actionn adventure comedy Knight and Day.2011 brought her back to the Fast & Furious franchise reprising her role as Gisele in Fast Five she played the character again in 2013's Fast & Furious 6.
Gadot at the 2016 San Diego Comic Con panel for Wonder Woman
Gadot portrayed Wonder Woman in the superhero film 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 was the character's first appearance in film, was singled out as one of the best parts of the film.
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 on 16 December.
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