Gal Gadot Biography

Gal Gadot is a former Miss Israel pageant champ and the star of the 2017 box office hit, Wonder Woman.

Besides being 2004’s Miss Israel, Gadot spent two years in the Israeli Defense Forces, teaching gymnastics and getting weapons training, a good background for her film debut in the action movie Fast & Furious (2004, the fourth film in the franchise).

Her big break came as being cast as the modern cinema version of Diana Prince, a.k.a. Wonder Woman, first in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice in 2016.

The box office blast of Wonder Woman made Gadot a screen star. Her other films include Triple 9 (2016, starring Casey Affleck), and the comedy Keeping Up with the Joneses (2017, starring Zach Galifianakis).