<Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> galgadot.com </Td> </Tr> <P> Gal Gadot - Varsano (Hebrew: גל גדות ‎ ‎, pronounced (ˈɡal ɡaˈdot); born April 30, 1985) is an Israeli actress and model . Gadot is primarily known for her role as Wonder Woman in the DC Extended Universe . She started with Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), continued again in 2017 as the lead in Wonder Woman, and will reprise the role in Justice League . She previously appeared as Gisele Yashar in several films of The Fast and the Furious franchise . </P> <P> Gadot was born and raised in Israel . At age 18 she was crowned Miss Israel 2004 . She then served two years as a soldier in the Israel Defense Forces, where she was a combat trainer . She began studying at IDC Herzliya college before pursuing modeling and acting . </P> <P> Gal Gadot was born in Petah Tikva, Israel, and raised in its neighbouring city of Rosh HaAyin . In Hebrew, her first name means "wave" and her surname means "riverbanks". Her parents are Irit (née Weiss), a teacher, and Michael Gadot, an engineer . Both her parents were born in Israel, and they had Hebraized their surname from "Greenstein". Her father is a sixth - generation Israeli . Her maternal grandparents were born in Europe; her grandfather, who was imprisoned in the Auschwitz concentration camp, survived the Holocaust, and her grandmother left before the Nazi invasion . Gadot has stated that she was brought up in a "very Jewish, Israeli family environment". Her ancestry is Polish - Jewish, Austrian - Jewish, German - Jewish, and Czech - Jewish . She has one younger sister named Dana . </P>

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