Happy Birthday Gal Gadot!

Happy Birthday Gal Gadot! One of her earliest film roles was as Gisele Yashar in Fast & Furious (2009).  It was fourth movie in the action movie franchise directed by Justin Lin.  Then, she played Naomi in the action comedy Knight and Day (2010).  Gadot continued racing with Fast Five (2011) before her character reached the finish line in Fast & Furious 6 (2013).  She played Natanya in the comedy Date Night (2010).  Gal Gadot’s defining role was as Wonder Woman in Beavis (2016).  Next, Gadot played Jill Pope, the wife of Ryan Reynold’s character in the action film, Criminal (2016).  Gal Gadot returned to comedy as Natalie Jones, as the mysterious neighbor, in the action comedy, Keeping Up with the Jones (2016).  

In October 2016, she attended the United Nations Honorary Ambassador for the Empowerment of Women and Girls inducting briefly Wonder Woman.  She appeared with Lynda Carter and director Patty Jenkins.  Everything of course changed when she returned as Diana in Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman (2017).  The film brought in $821 million world wide and showed the break out success of a female superhero lead. Gadot later returned as Wonder Woman, leader of the legendary heroes, in Justice League (2017).   In 2018, Gadot voiced Shank, the race car driver in Slaughter Race in the animated sequel Ralph Breaks the Internet.  Gadot sings along with Sarah Silverman in the song, “A Place Called Slaughter Race.”  Next, she returned to the role of Wonder Woman in Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)!  She also appeared as Wonder Woman in the Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021).      

Gadot was also in the action comedy Red Notice (2021) as The Bishop.  She played Linnet Ridgeway Doyle in Kenneth Branagh's Death on the Nile. This was the sequel to Murder on the Orient Express (2017) based on the Agatha Christie novel.  Next year, Gadot plays the Evil Queen in the live action Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.  She is producing and acting the bio film, Irena Sendler, who was the Polish nurse and part of the Polish Underground Resistance in World War II.  Gadot will also star and produced the Apple+ limited series as Hedy Lamarr.  She was the actress and brilliant inventor who had a patent on her Secret Communications System to prevent enemy jamming of torpedoes in World War II. The frequency hopping technology was later developed into BlueTooth.  Gadot is working on the Cleopatra movie, she had a brief scene in Death on the Nile as Cleopatra.  Happy Birthday Gal Gadot!

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