Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#1231
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Gal Gadot works on versatility rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Gal Gadot appears in 24 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Gal. Zack Snyder's Justice League is the clearest case: a film rated 8.2 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, action. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for crime, drama, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Kevin Macdonald, Marc Webb, Louis Leterrier and others, Gal Gadot helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021) as Wonder Woman / Diana Prince · Fast X (2023) as Gisele Yashar (uncredited) · Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018) as Shank (voice)
Career snapshot
Ranked #1231 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
24
2009–2026
Career length
17 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.2
Zack Snyder's Justice League
Average Nutevio score
6.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.1
Zack Snyder's Justice League
Most frequent director
Zack Snyder
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With Zack Snyder
Most common genre
Action
20 titles
Average runtime
2h 6m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.8
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.3
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2000s
6.7 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Fast & Furious — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
6.7
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
6.7
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2000s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Fast & Furious.
Most productive era
2010s
12 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | — | — | 5.51 film |
| Action | 6.71 film | 6.511 films | 6.08 films |
| Thriller | 6.71 film | 6.73 films | 5.25 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.35 films | 6.62 films |
| Crime | 6.71 film | 6.54 films | 6.55 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2009Fast & Furious
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Gisele Yashar.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2021Zack Snyder's Justice League
8.2 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2026The Runner
The current state of the argument, as Maia Marten.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
24 of 24 films
as Wonder Woman / Diana Prince
Directed by Zack Snyder
as Diana Prince / Wonder Woman
Directed by Patty Jenkins
as Shank (voice)
Directed by Phil Johnston
as Rachel Stone
Directed by Tom Harper
as Gisele Yashar (uncredited)
Directed by Louis Leterrier
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Wonder Woman / Diana Prince
Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)
Performance score8.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Wonder Woman / Diana Prince gives Gal Gadot a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Diana Prince / Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman (2017)
Performance score7.8
Wonder Woman asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Diana Prince / Wonder Woman is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Shank (voice)
Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)
Performance score7.6
Ralph Breaks the Internet asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Shank (voice) is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Rachel Stone
Heart of Stone (2023)
Performance score7.4
Heart of Stone asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Rachel Stone is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Wonder Woman / Diana Prince
Start here. Zack Snyder's Justice League is the clearest statement of what Gal Gadot does — accessible, 242 minutes, and rated 8.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Gal at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Wonder Woman (2017)
Keeps the action register of Zack Snyder's Justice League but asks for a colder reading of it.
Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)
Keeps the action register of Wonder Woman but asks for a colder reading of it.
Heart of Stone (2023)
Keeps the action register of Ralph Breaks the Internet but asks for a colder reading of it.
Fast X (2023)
Keeps the action register of Heart of Stone but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Justin Lin
Director
3 films together
Notably Fast Five
Zack Snyder
Director
3 films together
Notably Zack Snyder's Justice League
Patty Jenkins
Director
2 films together
Notably Wonder Woman
James Mangold
Director
1 film together
Notably Knight and Day
Shawn Levy
Director
1 film together
Notably Date Night
John Hillcoat
Director
1 film together
Notably Triple 9
Greg Mottola
Director
1 film together
Notably Keeping Up with the Joneses
Phil Johnston
Director
1 film together
Notably Ralph Breaks the Internet
Scott Aukerman
Director
1 film together
Notably Between Two Ferns: The Movie
Kenneth Branagh
Director
1 film together
Notably Death on the Nile
Tom Harper
Director
1 film together
Notably Heart of Stone
Andy Muschietti
Director
1 film together
Notably The Flash
Louis Leterrier
Director
1 film together
Notably Fast X
Marc Webb
Director
1 film together
Notably Snow White
Kevin Macdonald
Director
1 film together
Notably The Runner
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Justin Lin
Director
3 films together · 6.9 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Fast FiveZack Snyder
Director
3 films together · 6.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Zack Snyder's Justice LeaguePatty Jenkins
Director
2 films together · 6.8 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Wonder WomanLouis Leterrier
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Fast XPhil Johnston
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ralph Breaks the InternetTom Harper
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Heart of StoneAndy Muschietti
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The FlashKenneth Branagh
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Death on the NileJames Mangold
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Knight and DayGreg Mottola
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Keeping Up with the JonesesShawn Levy
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Date NightJohn Hillcoat
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Triple 9Scott Aukerman
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Between Two Ferns: The MovieMarc Webb
Director
1 film together · 4.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Snow WhiteKevin Macdonald
Director
1 film together · 0.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The RunnerSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Fast Five
as Gisele Yashar
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Snow White
as Evil Queen
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Zack Snyder's Justice League
as Wonder Woman / Diana Prince
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Flash
as Diana Prince / Wonder Woman (uncredited)
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Zack Snyder's Justice League
as Wonder Woman / Diana Prince
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Gal Gadot has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Action Legend
Awarded
20 catalogue titles in action, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Zack Snyder's Justice League
as Wonder Woman / Diana Prince
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Zack Snyder's Justice League
as Wonder Woman / Diana Prince
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Snow White
as Evil Queen
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Death on the Nile
as Linnet Ridgeway
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Zack Snyder's Justice League
as Wonder Woman / Diana Prince
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Flash
as Diana Prince / Wonder Woman (uncredited)
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
In the Hand of Dante
as Giulietta / Gemma
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
Fast X
as Gisele Yashar (uncredited)
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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Bonnie Hunt
Built a career in the same territory: animation and family
Matt Damon
Built a career in the same territory: adventure and drama
Morgan Freeman
Built a career in the same territory: action and crime
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Built a career in the same territory: adventure and drama
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