

In 2018, Gadot became a brand ambassador for Revlon and Reebok. In 2017, Gadot was placed at number one on FHM 's " 100 Sexiest Women in the World" list. 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 2013, her combined annual modeling and acting salary was estimated at NIS 2.4 million. Gadot has been the main model for fashion brand Castro in 2008–16. She has been featured as the covergirl on Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Bride Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, UMM, Cleo, Fashion, Lucire, FHM.

In 2015, she became the face of Gucci's Bamboo perfume brand. She has led international campaigns as a model for Miss Sixty, Huawei smartphones, Captain Morgan rum, Gucci fragrances, Vine Vera skincare and Jaguar Cars. Career Modeling and beauty pageant career Īt 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. She says that her military 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." After her military service, Gadot studied law and government at the IDC Herzliya college in Herzliya, Israel.

At age 20 she began her two mandatory two years of military service in the Israel Defense Forces, enlisting as a combat fitness instructor. "I never thought I would win," she said to Glamour magazine. Gadot entered the Miss Israel competition at age 18, thinking it would be a fun experience.
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I returned home more mature and cried with my grandfather about that, coming a full circle from his childhood to mine." 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, an entitled child, felt the suffering the Muselmann experienced back then. Gadot reminisced: "I stood there on top of a mountain of ashes. Jewish high schools in Israel often take their sophomores on a Holocaust memorial trip to Poland to experience the Auschwitz and the Majdanek concentration camps first-hand. She graduated from Begin High School in Rosh HaAyin, majoring in biology. Growing up in Israel, Gadot learned and danced jazz and hip-hop for 12 years, and her first jobs were babysitting and working at a local Burger King. Gadot's maternal grandparents were born in 20th-century Europe her grandfather, who was imprisoned in the Auschwitz concentration camp subsequently to the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, survived the Holocaust, while her grandmother managed to escape the continent before the outbreak of World War II hostilities. Gadot has stated that she was brought up in a "very Jewish, Israeli family environment," and is of Ashkenazi Jewish descent ( Polish-Jewish, Austrian-Jewish, German-Jewish, and Czech-Jewish). Her parents are Irit (née Weiss), a physical education teacher, and Michael Gadot, an engineer they Hebraized their surname from "Greenstein" to "Gadot" prior to her birth. In Hebrew, her first name means "wave" and her surname means "riverbanks". She was later raised in the city of Rosh HaAyin, Israel. Gadot was born on 30 April 1985 in Petah Tikva, Israel, where she first lived. She also starred alongside Dwayne Johnson and Ryan Reynolds in the Netflix action comedy film Red Notice (2021).ĭubbed the "biggest Israeli superstar" by local media outlets, Gadot was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2018 and has placed twice in annual rankings of the world's highest-paid actresses. She went on to achieve global stardom for portraying Diana Prince / Wonder Woman in the DC Extended Universe, beginning with Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), followed by the solo film Wonder Woman (2017), the ensemble Justice League (2017), the sequel Wonder Woman 1984 (2020), and the alternate cut Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021). Gadot's first international film role came as Gisele Yashar in Fast & Furious (2009), a role she reprised in several subsequent installments of the film franchise. She then served two years in the Israel Defense Forces as a soldier, whereafter she began studying at the IDC Herzliya college, while building her modeling and acting careers. At age 18, she was crowned Miss Israel 2004. Gal Gadot-Varsano ( Hebrew: גל גדות born ( )30 April 1985) is an Israeli actress and model.
