Gal Gadot

At age 18, Gadot won the 2004 Miss Israel beauty pageant,[28][29] and subsequently competed for Israel in the Miss Universe 2004 pageant that took place that year in Ecuador.

She has led international campaigns as a model for Miss Sixty, Huawei smartphones, Captain Morgan rum, Gucci fragrances and Vine Vera skincare ranges, and Jaguar Cars. In 2015, she became the face of Gucci's Bamboo perfume brand.[30] 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.[31] In 2013, her combined annual modelling and acting salary was estimated at NIS 2.4 million.[32]

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.

As of 2017, Gadot is the most recent winner of FHM's 100 Sexiest Women.[33]

Gadot at the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con panel for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

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.[26] 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.[34][35] Gadot performed her own stuntwork in those films.[36]

In 2010, she had small roles in the action comedy Date Night and the action-adventure comedy Knight and Day.[37] 2011 brought her back to the Fast & Furious franchise, reprising her role as Gisele in Fast Five, and in 2013's Fast & Furious 6.[38]

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.[39] 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.[40]

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".[41][42] 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.[41][42][43] 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.[43]

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.[44] Later that year, she co-starred in the action crime thriller film Criminal, as the wife of Ryan Reynolds' character,[45] alongside Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman, and Tommy Lee Jones.[46] Her final film of 2016 was the action comedy Keeping Up with the Joneses, in which she played a secret agent, alongside Zach Galifianakis, Jon Hamm, and Isla Fisher.[47]

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 in November 2017, and was her third DC Extended Universe installment.[48][49][50] That same year, Gadot was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.[51]

In 2018, Time magazine named Gadot one of the 100 most influential people in the world,[52] and Forbes ranked her as the tenth highest-paid actress in the world, with annual earnings of $10 million.[53] In the same year, Gadot voiced Shank in the Walt Disney Animation Studios film Ralph Breaks the Internet.[54]

Gadot appeared in the music video for Maroon 5's song "Girls Like You" featuring Cardi B.[55]

In July 2018, during a break in filming Wonder Woman 1984, Gadot visited a Virginia children's hospital in costume as Wonder Woman.[56][57][58]

In 2020, Forbes ranked Gadot as the third highest-paid actress in the world, with annual earnings of $31.5 million.[59] On 11 October 2020, Gadot was confirmed to be reuniting with Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins on Cleopatra, an epic film centered on Cleopatra produced by Paramount Pictures.[60] In December, Gadot was cast in the spy thriller Heart of Stone.[61]

In 2021, her two films are lined up for release. She is starring alongside Dwayne Johnson and Ryan Reynolds in the Netflix action thriller film Red Notice, written and directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber.[62] Her second film Death on the Nile directed by Kenneth Branagh is slated for release on September 17, 2021.

Gadot at the 2018 San Diego Comic-Con panel for Wonder Woman 1984

In October 2019, Gadot formed a production company, Pilot Wave, with her husband, Jaron Varsano (Yaron Varsano), and said she will star in and co-produce an Apple TV+ limited series about actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr, as well as the Warner Bros. historical thriller film Irena Sendler, following the life of WWII humanitarian Irena Sendler.[63][64]

In 2020, Gadot co-produced, as well as starred, in the sequel film Wonder Woman 1984.

Gadot was named as celebrity endorser for Smartwater in 2020, replacing Jennifer Aniston, who had served in that role since 2008.[65]