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Gal began modeling in the late 2000s, and made her film debut in the fourth film of the Fast and Furious franchise, Fast & Furious (2009), where she appeared as Gisele Yashar; she repriced the role of Yashar in several subsequent installments of The Fast Saga. Gadot went on to achieve global stardom for her portrayal of Wonder Woman in the DC Extended Universe, including in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), Wonder Woman (2017) and Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021). She has since starred in the Netflix action-comedy film Red Notice (2021) and the mystery film Death on the Nile (2022).

Gal is a motorcycle enthusiast, and owns a black 2006 Ducati Monster-S2R. She has been married to Yaron Versano since September 28, 2008. They have three daughters.
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Also known as: Diana Prince, Princess Diana
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Who is Wonder Woman?

How did Wonder Woman get her powers?

What does Wonder Woman do?

What is the movie Wonder Woman 1984 about?

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Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman.

Wonder Woman, American comic book heroine created for DC Comics by psychologist William Moulton Marston (under the pseudonym Charles Moulton) and artist Harry G. Peter. Wonder Woman first appeared in a backup story in All Star Comics no. 8 (December 1941) before receiving fuller treatment in Sensation Comics no. 1 (January 1942) and Wonder Woman no. 1 (June 1942). She perennially ranked as one of DC\u2019s most-recognizable characters and a feminist icon.

Marston was something of a maverick in the scientific community, and he is credited with inventing a precursor of the modern lie detector. He practiced polygyny, he believed that women would rise up to lead the world into a new and peaceful age, and one of Marston\u2019s longtime partners was the niece of family-planning pioneer Margaret Sanger. These details, as well as Marston\u2019s long affiliation with the women\u2019s suffrage movement, were obvious influences in the creation of Wonder Woman.

Origin in the Golden Age

The details of Wonder Woman\u2019s origin have changed many times over the years, but the basic premise has remained largely the same. U.S. Air Force pilot Steve Trevor\u2019s plane crashes on the uncharted Paradise Island, home of the legendary Amazons. The raven-haired Princess Diana finds Trevor, and the Amazons nurse him back to health. A tournament is held to determine who will take the pilot back to \u201cMan\u2019s World,\u201d but Diana is forbidden to enter. Disguising herself, she engages in the games, winning them and being awarded the costume of Wonder Woman. Diana takes Trevor back to the United States in her invisible plane, and she adopts the secret identity of Diana Prince. As Prince, she soon becomes Trevor\u2019s assistant, and Trevor\u2014much like a gender-reversed Lois Lane\u2014never realizes that his coworker and the superhero who consistently comes to his rescue are the same person.

In her first 40 years of adventures, Wonder Woman wore a distinctive red bodice with a gold eagle, a blue skirt with white stars (quickly replaced by blue shorts with stars), red boots with a white centre stripe and upper edge, a gold belt and tiara, and bracelets on each wrist. The bracelets could deflect bullets or other missiles, and hanging from her belt was a magic golden lasso, which compelled anyone bound by it to tell the truth or obey her commands. Among her powers were prodigious strength and speed, near invulnerability to physical harm, and formidable combat prowess. On some occasions, she also displayed the ability to converse with animals.

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Wonder Woman was popular with readers for many reasons. For a nation engulfed in World War II, her unwavering patriotism was welcome. Male readers enjoyed the adventures of a scantily clad woman who was drawn in the style of one of Esquire magazine\u2019s Varga Girl pinups and who was often tied up by male or female villains. Critics\u2014most notably anti-comics polemicist Frederic Wertham\u2014would call attention to the preponderance of bondage in Wonder Woman stories, but Marston claimed such scenes to be allusions to suffragist imagery. (This defense strained credibility, however, as the concept of \u201cloving submission\u201d to authority was pervasive throughout both Wonder Woman comics and Marston\u2019s personal life.) Female readers liked the series because it presented a strong and confident woman who often spoke about the power of womanhood and the need for female solidarity. In an industry where superheroines tended to be used for cheesecake titillation or as adjuncts to their more powerful and popular male counterparts, Wonder Woman stood apart.

Unlike Superman or Batman, the other members of what would come to be known as DC\u2019s \u201ctrinity,\u201d Wonder Woman would never develop an especially memorable gallery of villains. Among her persistent foes were the catlike Cheetah, the towering Giganta, the sorceress Circe, and the telepath Dr. Psycho, whose mental powers were a sinister inversion of Marston\u2019s \u201cloving submission\u201d credo. Besides appearing in her own two titles, Wonder Woman was a featured member of the Justice Society of America in the pages of All Star Comics.

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The Silver Age and television success

Marston wrote Wonder Woman until his death in May 1947, with Peter providing the art during most of that time. Robert Kanigher succeeded Marston as writer in 1948, but the popularity of superhero comics had sharply declined in the postwar years. The heroine last appeared with the Justice Society in All Star Comics no. 57 (February 1951), and she was dropped from Sensation Comics after no. 106 (December 1951). Sensation was subsequently turned into a horror anthology to capitalize on that genre\u2019s surging popularity, leaving her bimonthly series as the sole Wonder Woman title. Peter was replaced by artists Ross Andru and Mike Esposito, among others.

Kanigher had a flair for the outrageous, and he introduced many elements into the Wonder Woman mythos that rattled longtime readers. These included adventures featuring a younger Wonder Woman (as Wonder Girl and Wonder Tot), romantic suitors such as Merman and Birdman (and their youthful counterparts Mer-Boy and Bird-Boy), and bizarre villains like Angle Man, Paper-Man, and a sentient egg (and obvious \u201cyellow peril\u201d stereotype) known as Egg Fu. Resistance from fans would lead Kanigher to take the unorthodox step of writing himself, Andru, and Esposito into Wonder Woman no. 158 (November 1965), so he could personally \u201cfire\u201d the supporting cast that he had introduced and restore Wonder Woman to her \u201cGolden Age\u201d roots.

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Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman.

Outside of her own title, Wonder Woman appeared as a founding member of the Justice League of America in The Brave and the Bold no. 28 (February-March 1960). In 1968 Kanigher left Wonder Woman, and creative duties were taken over by writer Denny O\u2019Neil and artists Mike Sekowsky and Dick Giordano. In Wonder Woman no. 178 (October 1968), Diana Prince was stripped of her superpowers and costume, and she became an undercover adventure heroine in the model of Emma Peel from the television series The Avengers. Feminist leader Gloria Steinem featured the heroine in her classic costume on the cover of the July 1972 debut issue of Ms. magazine, and Wonder Woman\u2019s profile grew dramatically during the 1970s. Shortly after her appearance in Ms., Wonder Woman regained her powers and costume, and the classic depiction of the hero played a prominent role in ABC\u2019s hit animated series Super Friends (1973\u201386). In 1975 Lynda Carter debuted as the title character in the live action Wonder Woman. The statuesque former beauty queen so perfectly embodied the Amazon princess that, although the show ran for just three seasons, Carter would become the face of the character for a generation. Early scripts tended to be very faithful to the World War II-era comics, while later episodes, moving the time frame to the 1970s, were less faithful to their progenitors.

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\n\n\n\n", + "page_last_modified": "" + }, + { + "page_name": "Four actresses who played Wonder Woman - The Oklahoman", + "page_url": "https://oklahoman.com/article/5565461/four-actresses-who-played-wonder-woman", + "page_snippet": "After topping the domestic box office thus far this year, \u201cWonder Woman\u201d is now available on DVD, Blu-ray and digital services.Wonder Woman first appeared on live-action TV in 1974, in a made-for-TV movie called \u201cWonder Woman,\u201d starring Cathy Lee Crosby. She didn\u2019t wear the traditional comics uniform, though at one point she sports a red, white and blue outfit. In the film, she\u2019s assistant to government agent Steve Trevor, on the trail of a villain played by Ricardo Montalban. ... Carter starred in the retooled Wonder Woman series from 1975 to 1979. The first season aired on ABC and was set in the World War II era. In celebration of the home video release, let\u2019s look at four women who have played the Amazon Princess in live-action. ... Wonder Woman first appeared on live-action TV in 1974, in a made-for-TV movie called \u201cWonder Woman,\u201d starring Cathy Lee Crosby. She didn\u2019t wear the traditional comics uniform, though at one point she sports a red, white and blue outfit. The film stars Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman, who comes to man\u2019s world to try to put a stop to World War I. The film, directed by Patty Jenkins, has already been slated for a sequel. In celebration of the home video release, let\u2019s look at four women who have played the Amazon Princess in live-action. Her leading role in David E. Kelley\u2019s \u201cWonder Woman\u201d pilot never made it to series for NBC in 2011. Palicki probably is best known for her role as Tyra Collette in the critically acclaimed \u201cFriday Night Lights\u201d television series. She played Bobbi Morse/Mockingbird on \u201cAgents of S.H.I.E.L.D.\u201d", + "page_result": "Four actresses who played Wonder Woman
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Four actresses who played Wonder Woman

Matthew Price

After topping the domestic box office thus far this year, \u201cWonder Woman\u201d is now available on DVD, Blu-ray and digital services.\u00a0 The film stars Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman, who comes to man\u2019s world to try to put a stop to World War I.\u00a0 The film, directed by Patty Jenkins, has already been slated for a sequel.

In celebration of the home video release, let\u2019s look at four women who have played the Amazon Princess in live-action.\u00a0

Cathy Lee Crosby

Wonder Woman first appeared on live-action TV in 1974, in a made-for-TV movie called \u201cWonder Woman,\u201d starring Cathy Lee Crosby.\u00a0 She didn\u2019t wear the traditional comics uniform, though at one point she sports a red, white and blue outfit.\u00a0 In the film, she\u2019s assistant to government agent Steve Trevor, on the trail of a villain played by Ricardo Montalban.

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Lynda Carter

Carter starred in the retooled Wonder Woman series from 1975 to 1979. \u00a0The first season aired on ABC and was set in the World War II era.\u00a0 The second and third seasons, airing on CBS, were set in the then-contemporaneous 1970s.\u00a0 Lyle Waggoner played Steve Trevor in season one, then Steve Trevor, Jr., the son of his original character, in the second two seasons.\u00a0 Carter\u2019s Wonder Woman is the version that had, certainly prior to the 2017 film, had the largest impact on the public consciousness. \u00a0

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Adrianne Palicki

Palicki is well-known to genre fans. She played Lady Jaye in \u201cG.I. Joe: Retaliation,\u201d and also was once slated to play comics\u2019 most famous heroine. Her leading role in David E. Kelley\u2019s \u201cWonder Woman\u201d pilot never made it to series for NBC in 2011.\u00a0 Palicki probably is best known for her role as Tyra Collette in the critically acclaimed \u201cFriday Night Lights\u201d television series. She played Bobbi Morse/Mockingbird on \u201cAgents of S.H.I.E.L.D.\u201d

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Gal Gadot

Former model and former Israeli soldier Gal Gadot (\u201cFast &Furious\u201d) \u00a0was cast as Wonder Woman for \u201cBatman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice.\u201d\u00a0 She reprised the role in this year\u2019s \u201cWonder Woman,\u201d the top domestic box office draw of the year.\u00a0 She will reprise the role in \u201cJustice League.\u201d

", + "page_last_modified": "" + }, + { + "page_name": "Gal Gadot | Movies, Wonder Woman, & Husband | Britannica", + "page_url": "https://www.britannica.com/biography/Gal-Gadot", + "page_snippet": "Gal Gadot, Israeli actress and model. After having roles in several television shows and films in the 2000s and 2010s, Gadot catapulted to fame with her portrayal of the DC universe superhero Wonder Woman. She formed a production company with her husband in 2019.She reprised her role as Wonder Woman in Justice League(2017), which was later reedited and released in 2021 as Zack Synder\u2019s Justice League, and in Wonder Woman 1984, released in 2020. Meanwhile, she voiced the character of Shank in the animated Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2 (2018). Gadot returned to the action and thriller genre playing a world-class art thief in Red Notice (2021). Gal Gadot (born April 30, 1985, Peta\u1e25 Tiqwa, Israel) Israeli actress, producer, and model. After having roles in several television shows and films in the 2000s and 2010s, she catapulted to fame with her portrayal of the DC universe superhero Wonder Woman. In 2013 Gadot was selected to portray Wonder Woman in several DC universe films; she made her debut as that character in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016). Gadot had starring roles in three other films released that same year: Triple 9 and Criminal, both thrillers, and Keeping Up with the Joneses, an action comedy. Gadot had starring roles in three other films released that same year: Triple 9 and Criminal, both thrillers, and Keeping Up with the Joneses, an action comedy. She went on to star in the highly anticipated Wonder Woman (2017)\u2014directed by Patty Jenkins\u2014which cemented Gadot\u2019s status as an international star. Prior to filming, Gadot spent several months engaged in physically demanding training to prepare for the role of the superhero, and once again she did much of her own stunt work.", + "page_result": "\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n\n \n\n\t\n\t\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\t\t\n\n \n Gal Gadot | Movies, Wonder Woman, & Husband | Britannica\n\t\t\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\t\n\n \n\n \n\n\t\t \n\t\t\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Gal Gadot (born April 30, 1985, Peta\u1e25 Tiqwa, Israel) Israeli actress, producer, and model. After having roles in several television shows and films in the 2000s and 2010s, she catapulted to fame with her portrayal of the DC universe superhero Wonder Woman.

Gadot was born in Peta\u1e25 Tiqwa and grew up in nearby Rosh Ha\u02bfAyin, a small town east of Tel Aviv\u2013Yafo, living with her parents and younger sister. She was raised in the Jewish faith and has said that her faith and Israeli identity are very important to her. Gadot described herself as having been very active as a child, playing several sports; she also studied dance for 12 years. After she graduated from high school, she won the Miss Israel pageant held in 2004. As Miss Israel, she was a contestant in the Miss Universe competition later that year, but she did not place, later commenting that she was not interested in being Miss Universe and did everything she could to make sure that she would not be chosen as the winner. When she was 20 years of age, she began two years of mandatory service in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF; 2005\u201307), serving as a combat fitness instructor. She met her future husband, Jaron Varsano, during this time; they were married in 2008.

Gadot, who had begun modeling after winning the Miss Israel pageant, continued to do so during and after her military service; she also studied law and international relations at IDC Herzliya (now Reichman University) at Herzliya. Gadot segued from modeling into acting, making her debut in 2007 in Bubot, an Israeli television series. Her first big Hollywood break came when she was cast in Fast & Furious (2009) as Gisele Yashar, a ex-Mossad agent and weapons expert, a role she would reprise in Fast Five (2011), Fast & Furious 6 (2013), and Furious 7 (2015). Gadot did much of her own stunt work in the action-packed thrillers. During this time she also had small roles in other movies and worked in television.

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In 2013 Gadot was selected to portray Wonder Woman in several DC universe films; she made her debut as that character in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016). Gadot had starring roles in three other films released that same year: Triple 9 and Criminal, both thrillers, and Keeping Up with the Joneses, an action comedy. She went on to star in the highly anticipated Wonder Woman (2017)\u2014directed by Patty Jenkins\u2014which cemented Gadot\u2019s status as an international star. Prior to filming, Gadot spent several months engaged in physically demanding training to prepare for the role of the superhero, and once again she did much of her own stunt work. She reprised her role as Wonder Woman in Justice League(2017), which was later reedited and released in 2021 as Zack Synder\u2019s Justice League, and in Wonder Woman 1984, released in 2020.

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Meanwhile, she voiced the character of Shank in the animated Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2 (2018). Gadot returned to the action and thriller genre playing a world-class art thief in Red Notice (2021). She also starred in a film adaptation of Agatha Christie\u2019s mystery Death on the Nile, directed by Kenneth Branagh and released in 2022. Because of Gadot\u2019s service in the IDF as well as her vocal support for Israel, some of her films have been banned in some Arab countries that strongly support Palestine and have tense relations with Israel. In 2019 Gadot and her husband formed their own production company, called Pilot Wave, to focus on bringing inspirational and compelling stories to the screen.

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Also known as: Diana Prince, Princess Diana
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Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman.

Wonder Woman, American comic book heroine created for DC Comics by psychologist William Moulton Marston (under the pseudonym Charles Moulton) and artist Harry G. Peter. Wonder Woman first appeared in a backup story in All Star Comics no. 8 (December 1941) before receiving fuller treatment in Sensation Comics no. 1 (January 1942) and Wonder Woman no. 1 (June 1942). She perennially ranked as one of DC\u2019s most-recognizable characters and a feminist icon.

Marston was something of a maverick in the scientific community, and he is credited with inventing a precursor of the modern lie detector. He practiced polygyny, he believed that women would rise up to lead the world into a new and peaceful age, and one of Marston\u2019s longtime partners was the niece of family-planning pioneer Margaret Sanger. These details, as well as Marston\u2019s long affiliation with the women\u2019s suffrage movement, were obvious influences in the creation of Wonder Woman.

Origin in the Golden Age

The details of Wonder Woman\u2019s origin have changed many times over the years, but the basic premise has remained largely the same. U.S. Air Force pilot Steve Trevor\u2019s plane crashes on the uncharted Paradise Island, home of the legendary Amazons. The raven-haired Princess Diana finds Trevor, and the Amazons nurse him back to health. A tournament is held to determine who will take the pilot back to \u201cMan\u2019s World,\u201d but Diana is forbidden to enter. Disguising herself, she engages in the games, winning them and being awarded the costume of Wonder Woman. Diana takes Trevor back to the United States in her invisible plane, and she adopts the secret identity of Diana Prince. As Prince, she soon becomes Trevor\u2019s assistant, and Trevor\u2014much like a gender-reversed Lois Lane\u2014never realizes that his coworker and the superhero who consistently comes to his rescue are the same person.

In her first 40 years of adventures, Wonder Woman wore a distinctive red bodice with a gold eagle, a blue skirt with white stars (quickly replaced by blue shorts with stars), red boots with a white centre stripe and upper edge, a gold belt and tiara, and bracelets on each wrist. The bracelets could deflect bullets or other missiles, and hanging from her belt was a magic golden lasso, which compelled anyone bound by it to tell the truth or obey her commands. Among her powers were prodigious strength and speed, near invulnerability to physical harm, and formidable combat prowess. On some occasions, she also displayed the ability to converse with animals.

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Wonder Woman was popular with readers for many reasons. For a nation engulfed in World War II, her unwavering patriotism was welcome. Male readers enjoyed the adventures of a scantily clad woman who was drawn in the style of one of Esquire magazine\u2019s Varga Girl pinups and who was often tied up by male or female villains. Critics\u2014most notably anti-comics polemicist Frederic Wertham\u2014would call attention to the preponderance of bondage in Wonder Woman stories, but Marston claimed such scenes to be allusions to suffragist imagery. (This defense strained credibility, however, as the concept of \u201cloving submission\u201d to authority was pervasive throughout both Wonder Woman comics and Marston\u2019s personal life.) Female readers liked the series because it presented a strong and confident woman who often spoke about the power of womanhood and the need for female solidarity. In an industry where superheroines tended to be used for cheesecake titillation or as adjuncts to their more powerful and popular male counterparts, Wonder Woman stood apart.

Unlike Superman or Batman, the other members of what would come to be known as DC\u2019s \u201ctrinity,\u201d Wonder Woman would never develop an especially memorable gallery of villains. Among her persistent foes were the catlike Cheetah, the towering Giganta, the sorceress Circe, and the telepath Dr. Psycho, whose mental powers were a sinister inversion of Marston\u2019s \u201cloving submission\u201d credo. Besides appearing in her own two titles, Wonder Woman was a featured member of the Justice Society of America in the pages of All Star Comics.

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The Silver Age and television success

Marston wrote Wonder Woman until his death in May 1947, with Peter providing the art during most of that time. Robert Kanigher succeeded Marston as writer in 1948, but the popularity of superhero comics had sharply declined in the postwar years. The heroine last appeared with the Justice Society in All Star Comics no. 57 (February 1951), and she was dropped from Sensation Comics after no. 106 (December 1951). Sensation was subsequently turned into a horror anthology to capitalize on that genre\u2019s surging popularity, leaving her bimonthly series as the sole Wonder Woman title. Peter was replaced by artists Ross Andru and Mike Esposito, among others.

Kanigher had a flair for the outrageous, and he introduced many elements into the Wonder Woman mythos that rattled longtime readers. These included adventures featuring a younger Wonder Woman (as Wonder Girl and Wonder Tot), romantic suitors such as Merman and Birdman (and their youthful counterparts Mer-Boy and Bird-Boy), and bizarre villains like Angle Man, Paper-Man, and a sentient egg (and obvious \u201cyellow peril\u201d stereotype) known as Egg Fu. Resistance from fans would lead Kanigher to take the unorthodox step of writing himself, Andru, and Esposito into Wonder Woman no. 158 (November 1965), so he could personally \u201cfire\u201d the supporting cast that he had introduced and restore Wonder Woman to her \u201cGolden Age\u201d roots.

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Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman.

Outside of her own title, Wonder Woman appeared as a founding member of the Justice League of America in The Brave and the Bold no. 28 (February-March 1960). In 1968 Kanigher left Wonder Woman, and creative duties were taken over by writer Denny O\u2019Neil and artists Mike Sekowsky and Dick Giordano. In Wonder Woman no. 178 (October 1968), Diana Prince was stripped of her superpowers and costume, and she became an undercover adventure heroine in the model of Emma Peel from the television series The Avengers. Feminist leader Gloria Steinem featured the heroine in her classic costume on the cover of the July 1972 debut issue of Ms. magazine, and Wonder Woman\u2019s profile grew dramatically during the 1970s. Shortly after her appearance in Ms., Wonder Woman regained her powers and costume, and the classic depiction of the hero played a prominent role in ABC\u2019s hit animated series Super Friends (1973\u201386). In 1975 Lynda Carter debuted as the title character in the live action Wonder Woman. The statuesque former beauty queen so perfectly embodied the Amazon princess that, although the show ran for just three seasons, Carter would become the face of the character for a generation. Early scripts tended to be very faithful to the World War II-era comics, while later episodes, moving the time frame to the 1970s, were less faithful to their progenitors.

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