Gal Gadot is Israeli. She was born on April 30, 1985, in Petah Tikva, Israel, and raised in the neighboring city of Rosh HaAyin. Her parents were both born in Israel, and they had Hebraized their surname from “Greenstein” to “Gadot.” Her maternal grandparents were Holocaust survivors. Her ancestry is Polish-Jewish, Austrian-Jewish, German-Jewish, and Czech-Jewish. She was crowned Miss Israel in 2004 and represented her country at the Miss Universe 2004 pageant.