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For some time, whenever people thought of movies based on DC Comics, Superman is the guy who would immediately come to mind, though eventually he was replaced by Batman. In fact, for quite a while it seemed like the company’s approach was “All Batman, all the time.” Well step aside, gentlemen: Thanks to Gal Gadot, Wonder Woman (AKA Diana Prince) has not only very much eclipsed her fellow heroes in the audience’s mind, but the success of last year’s film of the same name has opened the floodgates for other female superheroes to join her in saving the world. But Gal is only the latest actress to bring Wonder Woman to life. In fact, she’s one of 30 who have starred in various live action and animated versions that have been produced since 1967.
Why the connection? Gal explains in an official interview at the time of last year’s Justice League, “Diana does good because that’s the only thing she cares about. She doesn’t care for the fame or for the glory or for the credit. She’s not there for that. For me, it was really important that she would be the glue of the team, that we would track the same character that we victoriously established in the Wonder Woman movie. And I think that one of the special things that Diana has, one of the most beautiful qualities, is the fact that she just cares for people in the most sincere way. Also, we bring something that is easy to relate to. Yes, she’s a god. Yes, she’s the greatest warrior of all time, but she’s vulnerable, she’s sincere, and she can lose her confidence from time to time and she hurts. But she cares, and she’s warm, and she’s loving. These are qualities that all of us have.”
How do the other actresses who have played Wonder Woman feel about her? Find out in our guide to every one of them that follows.
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Ellie Wood Walker/Linda Harrison
Who's Afraid of Diana Prince was a proposed TV series back in 1967, for which a five-minute presentation was filmed. This version would have been a sitcom, focused largely on the "comic" interactions between Diana Prince (Ellie Wood Walker) and her overbearing mother. Believing she's destined for something great, when she dons the Wonder Woman costume and looks in the mirror, what she sees is a more beautiful and powerful version of herself, played by Linda Harrison (Nova in the 1968 version of Planet of the Apes). This would have come from William Dozier, producer of the Adam West Batman series.
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Jane Webb
The first animated version of Wonder Woman — actually the first filmed version that the audience ever saw — came in the form of "It's All Greek to Me," an episode of the Saturday morning cartoon The Brady Kids. In it, she interacts with the Bradys who, along with her, are transported back in time where they find themselves competing against Geek athletes. Marcia, Marcia, Marcia — live action was never like this! Voicing Wonder Woman is Jane Webb, who acted on a variety of radio shows, among them Tom Mix Ralston Straight Shooters. She voiced an alien on an episode of Star Trek: The Animated Series, and brought both Mary Ann and Ginger to vocal life on the animated series The New Adventures of Gilligan (itself a spin-off of the live-action Gilligan's Island).
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Shannon Farnon/Connie Caulfield
One of the biggest Saturday morning cartoon successes in the 1970s and 1980s was Super Friends, a junior version of DC Comics' Justice League. The show, which took a number of different forms, ran from 1973 to 1986, and among the characters featured, of course, was Wonder Woman. Voicing her from '73 to '84 was Shannon Farnon, who did a lot of voice work for animation producers Hanna-Barbera. For some reason, though, when the show came back in the fall of 1984 in the form of Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show, the role was voiced by Constance Caufield, who, in turn, only has a few credits to her name.
At a convention appearance, Shannon reflected, "As a woman, I always want to stand up for truth and justice, communication, and world peace. That's what Wonder Woman stood for and was created to accomplish. I'm thrilled to be the original voice of Wonder Woman and just loved every second of it. I did it for 10 years and I'm very proud to represent her. I grew up with the comic books of Wonder Woman, and I can't tell you what a joy it is to be remembered by the youth of today for that very thing; that a woman was strong and feminine and stood for truth."
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Cathy Lee Crosby
By 1974, Cathy Lee Crosby had decided she needed a change from her career as a professional tennis player, and looked toward acting. She had scored a role in the Walter Matthau feature film The Laughing Policeman, but then got what she thought was a dream role: that of Wonder Woman in a TV movie/backdoor pilot of the same name that is available on DVD. But this Wonder Woman had more in common with, maybe, James Bond than the Amazon princess we're more familiar with. There were no super powers, more physical prowess and agility than anything.
"It was my first real job," reflects Crosby in an exclusive interview, "so the significance of the project was that I was acting, but then, to have the opportunity to play a character that you grew up with as a little kid was so meaningful to me. At the time I was a professional tennis player and a lot of that, but as a little girl — actually a girl of any age — you couldn't help but love a woman who looks great, who has an invisible plane and some amazing bracelets. What a great fantasy."
She admits that she was a little surprised that she was cast in the role. "I would have thought they would have gone with a brunette," says the blonde Crosby, "but then I realized that the original movie was actually jointly owned by Warner Bros. and ABC. From what I understand, Warner Bros. wanted to do it more James Bond and ABC wanted to do it more comic book. So I guess it went halfway down the middle, because in a lot of ways this Wonder Woman was more like a female James Bond.
"For me," she continues, "it was an interesting opportunity and an amazing character. I think she was capable and she had all of these great tools. she kind of had fun with the whole thing; she could do whatever she needed to do and was completely what you would think of as a superhero. She tried to right wrongs, and who wouldn't love to be able to do that? And then when you're in trouble, you call upon your bracelets or your lasso to pull you through. I loved that concept, and the fact that her enemies would try to stop her in every way that they could and she was able to meet the challenge. I think that's a great image to represent. And the more that I have worked on other jobs, other films or whatever it may be, the more you begin to see these fans come out of nowhere and they feel that you are a part of this history. It's a wonderful feeling, and not something I expected."
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Lynda Carter
There's an interesting analogy between a pair of actors who have played Superman and those who have played Wonder Woman. In the 1950s, George Reeves was Superman and represented the Man of Steel for a couple of generations, but then Christopher Reeve made his debut in the role in 1978's Superman: The Movie, and for many it was as though the character had stepped off the comic book page. To this day, he is the version of the character all others are measured by. Similarly, today we have Gal Gadot who completely embodies the character of Wonder Woman, but for two generations before her, it was actress Lynda Carter who people thought of as the Amazon princess.
Lynda played the character in a 1974 TV movie, followed by a 1975-79 television series that was initially set during World War II but eventually shifted to present day. In an interview with Nerdist, she expressed her feelings about what it was that worked about her show: "I’ll tell you what it is…just why Wonder Woman worked. Or Bionic Woman, or any of those, really. It was because it wasn’t about brawn…it was about brains. And yes, she happened to be beautiful, she happened to be kind of extraordinary in some way, but she wasn’t a guy. And I think that, often times, they try to put out a female hero, and all they are doing is changing the costume from a man to a woman. It’s really a man could be doing the same part; they’re not showcasing any of the tremendous dichotomies that women possess in term of softness and toughness, sweetness and grit, and inner and outer strength. You know, nobody wants a 'ballbuster.' But you champion the woman who takes out the pepper spray and saves herself from an attacker and shows off tremendous kind of bravery in so many ways. And I think that’s the main thing that people miss."
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BJ Ward
Back in 1988, there was an animated series simply titled Superman, and the character of Diana Prince appeared in the episode "Superman and Wonder Woman Versus the Sorceress of Time". Voicing Wonder Woman is BJ Ward. Her other animated credits include G.I. Joe, Robo Force, The Incredible Hulk, The Pink Panther and Sons, several animated Scooby-Doo movies as Velma, Betty Rubble from the 1980s until the early 2000s, and much more. She's also voiced video game characters, and is the creator and star of a musical one-woman show called Stand-Up Opera.
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Susan Eisenberg
This actress is no stranger to voicing Wonder Woman, having first done so in the 2001-04 animated series Justice League/Justice League Unlimited. After that, she voiced her in the 2012 film Justice League: Doom, 2012-14 shorts under the umbrella title DC Nation, the video game DC Universe Online, the 2015 film and web series Injustice: Gods Among Us, and the video games Injustice: Gods Among Us (2013) and Injustice 2 (2017)
In an exclusive interview conducted during production of Justice League Unlimited, Susan reflected, "If you actually filmed the recording sessions, you’d see that there’s so much joy in the room from all of us bringing these characters to life. And I think we appreciate the history of these characters. It’s not like Wonder Woman is new to this show, she’s been around forever and everyone has a sense of her. The same thing with Superman and Batman. Adults and children alike.
"They’re incorporating more humor into her, which I really appreciate. The one thing about Wonder Woman is that I wish she would laugh a little. She’s always been written to be serious and to be regal and somewhat standoffish. What I love about Justice League Unlimited is that they really developed the relationship between her and Batman. There’s been some serious flirtation between them. That’s great and fun to play, because that’s a flirtatious side of Diana, but even the friendship and the 'getting' of each other — I love to play those opportunities. It may not be this full-blown romance, but certainly they’re exploring the friendship between them. And an understanding of each other. I also love that it’s all been gradual. They gave it a lot of time for her to get used to these people. She came from this island of women, this was foreign to her and everything about it was foreign to her. It’s taken her years to warm up to the characters and see them as friends and as family. I think that’s been lovely to play."
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Courtenay Taylor
Back in 2006, Courtenay joined the Justice League. Well, at least she voiced the character of Wonder Woman who was part of the 2006 video game Justice League Heroes. For her part, Courtenay has appeared on a number of live-action TV series, but also provided her voice for numerous other games, including XCOM 2: War of the Chosen, World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth, Destiny 2, and Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series.
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Lucy Lawless
She will probably be forever known for starring in her cult-favorite series Xena: Warrior Princess and for her recurring role as a Cylon in human guise in the reimagined version of Battlestar Galactica. But in 2008, she voiced the character of Wonder Woman in the animated film Justice League: The New Frontier, which is set at the end of the Korean War. When an all-powerful evil entity vows to destroy humanity, and therefore with life itself hanging in the balance, a group of superheroes (Superman, Batman, The Flash, and Wonder Woman among them) unite. In essence, this is the origin of the Justice League.
As voice director Andrea Romano explains it, Wonder Woman is "a hard role to cast, because she has such physical presence. You can't cast a thinly voiced actress. You need someone with real power. And Lucy was a hoot to record. She was just hilarious. She really got into it physically, standing behind the microphone, acting out the stuff physically and energized and enthusiastic and happy to be there."
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Tara Platt
With credits stretching as far back as 1992, Tara has brought multiple characters to life vocally in video games and animated series. In 2008, she portrayed Wonder Woman in the video game Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe which is, as you would expect, a fighting game that brings together a pair of huge franchises.
In discussing her craft in an online interview, Tara explained, "I often say that there is a little of you in each of your characters, because you are building them out of your own humanity. Your personality infused into the character is what brings them to life, so even if you are playing a 'bad guy' you have to find a piece of you to bring to the table — maybe your vulnerable side that you don’t want others to see, so you’re covering (which can lead to a great quality in a villain), or maybe your take-charge side that gets things done (which can be commanding)… it’s not about being bad to sound bad, it’s about finding a quality of yours you can blow-up and play with. When I’m Wonder Woman, I’m still me, I’m just the very solid, strong, powerful me. When I’m Eva (from Monster) I’m the overwhelmed version of me…you just push those parts of yourself to the extreme and play with them there, and you can create some really amazing yet relatable moments. We can all imagine what it might feel like to wanna bop someone over the head for doing something we dislike — we might not act on it in real life, but bringing that reaction and filling it out is the fun part of acting!"
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Wendee Lee
An intriguing "alternate reality" story that DC Comics published is writer Mark Millar's Superman: Red Son, and in 2009 the company created the briefly-trending "motion comic" version which gave some movement to the comic panels with actors providing the dialogue rather than there being word balloons. In this particular story, Millar postulated what would have happened had baby Kal-El, rocketed from Krypton before his parents were killed in the planet's destruction, landed in Russia instead of America. Ultimately, he wasn't the same guy that we've all known, though he nonetheless came into contact with Batman and Wonder Woman. In this instance, the latter was voiced by Wendee Lee, who began her career in 1985 as Vanessa Leeds in the anime Robotech and most recently voiced Luca in 2017's Berserk. Now that's career longevity.
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Keri Russell
Like the recent live-action film, the 2009 animated adventure simply titled Wonder Woman is an origin story. When Air Force pilot Steve Trevor crashes on the island of Themyscira, the rebellious and headstrong Diana defies Amazonian law by accompanying him back to civilization. Meanwhile, Ares (the God of War) has escaped his imprisonment at the hands of the Amazons and has decided to exact revenge by starting a world war that will destroy them all. It is up to Princess Diana to save her people and the world by becoming Wonder Woman.
As producer Bruce Timm explains, “Wonder Woman is in the top tier of DC Comics characters that we haven’t over-explored yet in animation. Obviously, she was a big part in our Justice League series, and she’s one of the top three major DC characters along with Batman and Superman. So there was a lot of interest in doing a long-form theatrical experience in home video. This was the opportunity and we took it.”
For casting director Andrea Romano, the casting of both Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor became something of a “no-brainer” when she caught the film Waitress, which stars Keri Russell and Nathan Fillion.
“I remember thinking, ‘That’s some nice chemistry they’ve got there,’” she laughs. “My next thought was, ‘Hey, I need a Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor.’ They’re terrific, sweet, nice people, who did a really nice job.”
For her part, Russell (The Americans) shares that she was thrilled to take on the role. “I personally adore origin stories,” she enthuses. “They’re so intriguing, learning what shaped and formed a character. And this story is funny and action-packed and adult in a nice way. Then they said Nathan Fillion was playing opposite me, and that made it that much better. I adore Nathan and, after spending so much time with him making Waitress, I could hear exactly how he’d read every line while I was reading the Wonder Woman script. Then you’ve got his great cast with Virginia Madsen and Alfred Molina and Oliver Platt — so I kind of wanted to do it to be in the cool kids’ group.”
In “finding” Wonder Woman’s voice, Russell says, “I was trying to focus on her differences — she’s a true, strong warrior, but she’s also right at the break of being a young woman standing on her own and fighting out in the world. So it was a question of playing the innocence in her voice against the strength of a warrior, and then balancing that against Virginia Madsen playing her mother with such warmth and wisdom already in her voice. So finding Diana’s voice was trying to figure out how to walk that line.”
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Vanessa Marshall
Most recently enjoying a multi-season run voicing Hera Syndulla in Star Wars: Rebels, Vanessa has voiced Wonder Woman several times. It began with the animated film Crisis of Two Earths (2010) and continued with Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox (2013). She was also a part of the video game Infinite Crisis (2015). Of playing Wonder Woman, she explained to Bleedingcool.com, "I feel like there are aspects of Wonder Woman’s personality that exist in every woman if we give ourselves permission to stop apologizing and really put our big girl pants on and get it done. I think those things are universal; I think that’s why young girls and young women identify with the character and find it so inspiring is because we can all locate those parts of ourselves."
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Adrianne Palicki
Back in 2011, it looked like a sure thing that Wonder Woman would be returning to television in a new series produced by David E. Kelley and starring Adrianne (later of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and currently in Seth Macfarlane’s sci-fi comedy series The Orville) in the title role.
Kelley admitted to Vulture, “It’s not really what I do. It’s not a genre that’s in my wheelhouse. But then I started thinking, ‘What if there were such a person in today’s world and what must it be like to be her?’ And I was imagining the sense of social isolation that she must feel, that she indeed would probably be a rather complicated beast. When I started thinking about all the complications and potential layers to this superhero, I just got more and more intrigued. It was also something I was a little bit afraid of. That’s good, too. Any writer should get out of his or her comfort zone, and this was way outside of mine.”
Adrianne notes that playing Wonder Woman was a surreal experience for her. “David Kelley really fought for me on that one. He really felt I was her. And it was a lot of pressure, I’m not going to lie. I was taking on a huge responsibility to a lot of people, fans, DC Comics…everything. But it was one of the cooler roles of my life and experiences. And I got paid to wear the costume!”
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Maggie Q
One of the best shows based on DC Comics — and that's saying a lot given that there have been some really good ones — is Young Justice, dealing with a younger set of heroes mentored by members of the Justice League. In the show, which is returning for a much-belated third season later this year, actress Maggie Q plays Wonder Woman. Talking to IGN, she commented, "In my head I am her! No stretch there. When I was a kid, I used to dress up as her. I couldn't afford a costume, so I would make her headband, wristbands and the lasso out of paper and tape it to myself. And [I'd] run around, climb up roofs and try to jump off them." She goes on to say, "There is nothing cooler than having lines like, 'Batman, the fate of the world is upon us.' Who gets to say that? And who gets to say that in a deep, earnest, amazingly sexy way?"
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Jules de Jongh
Jules de Jongh, with an extensive background in voicing animated and video game characters, brought Wonder Woman to life in the 2011 game LittleBigPlanet2.
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Vicki Lewis
Probably best known for her role as the sarcastic Beth on the sitcom Newsradio, Vicki Lewis scored her first film role in 1994's I'll Do Anything and has alternated between film and television ever since. In between, she's voiced quite a number of characters, including Deb/Flo in the two Finding Nemo films. In 2011 she voiced Wonder Woman in "Scorn of the Star Sapphire" in an episode of the light-hearted series Batman: The Brave and the Bold. She reprised the role in "Triumvirate of Terror!", which saw the character teamed up with both Batman and Superman.
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Gina Torres
Gina Torres, who most recently starred in Suits, is well known to sci-fi genre fans. She played Cas in The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions, co-starred in Joss Whedon's cult favorite series Firefly (and the big screen spin-off Serenity) as Zoe Washburne, and the goddess Jasmine in Angel. She voiced Wonder Woman in the 2011 video game DC Universe Online. It's a massive multiplayer online game set in the world of DC, and the sequences within it are done with such detail that they actually have a cinematic feel to them.
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Laura Bailey
Another actress with extensive credits in voicing characters in animation and video games, Laura took on the part of Wonder Woman for 2013's Lego Batman: The Movie — DC Super Heroes Unite. She also voiced "Mecha-Wonder Woman" in that same year's video game Infinite Crisis. Of the latter she explained in an official interview, "She's a robot enemy, so she's got this kind of… I want to say a Japanese Mech influence. She looks awesome — like Voltron or Transformers or something. So yeah, it was a really cool character to get to do, because she's so different than what I would normally expect, but she still upholds the same values.
"You want to uphold what people expect when they think of Wonder Woman, which is a strong feminine," she adds. "With Wonder Woman, I always want to drift into this very strong, deep place and we tried to keep the voice a little bit higher with Mecha. You just think about everybody that's played here before and everything you've seen of her in the past, and you kind of make it your own."
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Grey Delisle
Grey has played an adult Wonder Woman in the 2014 animated films JLA Adventures: Trapped in Time and Lego Batman: Be-Leaguered. She's also voiced the younger version in the web series Super Hero Girls in 2015. At a convention she explained, "I've been playing Wonder Woman for a long time in different iterations, but this is playing the young Wonder Woman and it's interesting to back engineer a character to play the older version for a long time and then kind of think, 'Okay, how did I get there? How did that start?' So I just kind of started with her earnestness and went from there."
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Michelle Monaghan
In 2014, Michelle, who is seen on screens this summer in Mission Impossible: Fallout, voiced Wonder Woman in the film Justice League War. She explains in an official interview, "When Wonder Woman turns up on the scene she's a warrior, she's a princess, and she expects all the other superheroes, I think, to kind of go along with her and they don't. They kind of buck her system, so she kind of has to put her foot down. The other thing is that there is a lot of girl power when it comes to Wonder Woman. She's very confident and there's something about putting your hands on your hips or throwing that truth Lasso or throwing that sword in the air that says, "Pay attention to me." So that was kind of fun to do in the recording booth. I've never done animation before, so I had a lot of fun doing it."
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Cobie Smulders
She's best known as Robin Scherbatsky on the long-running sitcom How I Met Your Mother, and Agent Maria Hill in various films of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but she also voiced the Amazon princess in 2014's box office hit The Lego Movie. Of that film, she says, "It's fun to do a Lego movie, because you get to see all these superheroes in it together. I didn't really grow up with Legos so much, but my husband did, so I'm always finding the little mini pieces all over our house."
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Rosario Dawson
In recent years, the animated films featuring Wonder Woman have taken on much more of a warrior approach to the character, and Rosario Dawson has had the opportunity to bring that to life in Justice League: Throne of Atlantis (2015), Justice League vs. Teen Titans (2016), Justice League Dark (2017), and the forthcoming The Death of Superman. Comic book fans also know her as Claire Temple, a sort of unifying element between the four Netflix TV series based on the Marvel characters Daredevil, Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, and Iron Fist. Of the different roles she plays, she explained to Nylon.com, "Each of these characters I get to play allows me to step one more inch backward and broaden my perspective that much more. And every time I take that inch back, that perspective I had before that I was so sure of gets challenged again, and I have to look at it again and again through different eyes.”
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Tamara Taylor
The actress, who co-starred in Bones for 223 episodes and most recently had a recurring role in Altered Carbon, voiced Wonder Woman in the 2015 film and web series Justice League: Gods and Monsters, about an alternate timeline where Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman are very different than the characters we're used to, much darker and not quite as kind. "It was surreal," Tamara admits in a convention interview, "because I sort of got the call and then got the script and was wildly confused by the spirit because nobody told me it was an alternate universe. I was just like, what's going on? So it took me a little moment and then I made a few calls and found out what was going on. But I still went in with a preconceived notion of how Wonder Woman should sound based on how many years she's been around. I was basically told to throw you think you know about this character out the window, that we were going to have fun with her. We were going to make a completely different version. She's edgier. She's certainly darker, but I think the thing that I found most interesting about her was that in flashback we see that it was essentially — and again this is my interpretation — it was essentially kind of a heartbreak and a betrayal that created the Wonder Woman that you now see in this alternate universe."
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Kari Walgren
Kari voiced the characters of Wonder Woman and Bizarra in 2015's Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League vs. Bizarro League. "This project, in particular, was really special to me, because I'd been a huge Wonder Woman fan since I was a little girl," she said at a comic convention. "So it was a huge deal to get cast as Wonder Woman, and this universe is pretty fun because there's a lot more comedy. As much as I wanted to make Wonder Woman very strong and powerful, it was fun actually getting to throw in that humor as well. But Bizarra, this twisted version of Wonder Woman, was a lot more fun to play, actually. Part of it is just because she owns the fact that she's sassy and fabulous and has a bigger than Wonder Woman."
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Gal Gadot
Introduced as Wonder Woman in 2016’s Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice, Gal Gadot returned as Diana in 2017’s Wonder Woman (prior to reprising the role in the same year’s Justice League). The film, set during World War I, is an origin story. When military pilot Steve Trevor (Chris Pine) crashes on the female-only inhabited island of Themyscira, he’s nursed back to health and reveals much about the world — especially the war — which inspires Diana to put an end to that war as Wonder Woman. But first she’s going to have to stop the warrior god Ares (David Thewlis), who is manipulating humanity down a path of destruction.
“I didn’t get to choose her, but boy was I relieved once I realized who she was,” laughs director Patty Jenkins of Gal. “That is like a make it or break it thing, who plays these characters. Just look at Gal Gadot when she smiles or when she meets somebody and shakes their hand. That is the embodiment of Wonder Woman. She is so beautiful and powerful, but kind and generous and thoughtful. She’s just an amazing person.”
Comments Gal, “I remember the first time we sat together, and we were talking about life, and then we were talking about our families and everything was so similar. The way we see the world, Patty and I, is very similar, and to be able to work with someone whom you can get along with, you agree creatively about almost everything, and even when we had our conflicts, it was always fair. It made me think and it made her think. We both evolved from it. You know what I mean? And the result that we got was the best that we could get.”
While Patty acknowledges that the arrival of the first big screen superheroine is significant, it’s not something that impacted on her through production.
“I’m not looking at her as being any different than any other superhero,” she says. “And that’s the victory. I think the reason that there wasn’t a woman superhero made for a long time is because people were assuming that it had to be a different kind of thing. This is Wonder Woman. There’s nothing different. There’s Batman, there’s Superman, there’s Wonder Woman. She’s the full-blown real deal. So it’s very significant, but I also just went forth trying to make a great superhero film the same way I would have with any of them, which was great.”
Gal feels the beautiful thing about Wonder Woman is that she represents so many different things as a person. She’s someone who can be vulnerable and sensitive, and the greatest warrior that’s ever existed.
“When you first meet Diana on the island, she’s about five or six, and she is this curious little girl who’s very courageous, who’s very sassy and naughty,” Gadot says. “And she’s very inspired by her aunt. She wants to learn how to fight, but she’s been very sheltered and protected by her mother, who does not allow her to do so. But Diana finds her way; she has this spark in her. She has this fire in her eyes, and eventually she gets her way.
“I think that everything Wonder Woman stands for is brilliant,” she closes. “She stands for justice, and peace, and wisdom, and love, and acceptance, and compassion. And all of these things are becoming rare in our world.”
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Rachel Kimsey
Rachel is currently voicing Wonder Woman in the animated series Justice League Action, which launched inn 2016. As she explained at last year's Comic-Con, one of the big appeals for her is watching the character's evolution through the course of the first season. "I was incredibly grateful when we were part of the way through the season and some of the writers started saying they were writing her a little different based on what they were getting from my portrayal. So she got a little bit more ballsy. We lost a lot of the more formal speech and a sense of humor came through that we just kind of leaned into. There's a certain level of playful toughness that doesn't undercut the strength, but allows for some levity and sense of humor, which is really fun, because you start to really get the feeling that the Justice League is a group of people who work together.
"Since I was a little, little girl," she noted, "I'm, like, in my underoos spinning in the backyard playing Wonder Woman. In fact, I'm watching the Lynda Carter's Wonder Woman show as a child and was, like, 'Oh, clearly it is important as an adult woman to be able to run and also spin and high heels.' So when I played dress up, that's what I would have practiced, because these are clearly skills that an adult woman needs. So I've always loved the character, but getting to be the character has given me a whole new appreciation for the people who love her and what she means to them. It's given me this connection to other women and men who love her, too. Now I get a little piece of ownership of her, too, which is really special. I love it."
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Rica Matsumoto
Admittedly we don't know a lot about this Japanese animated film (beyond, obviously, the fact that Rica Matsumoto voices Wonder Woman). Here's how IMDB describes it: "Joker has come to Japan to steal the Eagle Talon Society's secret weapons in his continued scheme for pure chaos. However, the Justice League is on his trail, but there's something off with Batman. Now, it's up to Eagle Talon to go find out what's wrong with Batman, and that means going back in time to Bruce Wayne's most traumatic experience, the murder of his parents. If that wasn't enough to worry about, the Eagle Talon Society also have to keep their eyes on their production budget, especially with most of that money going towards the licensing fee for DC's popular characters. Will the Eagle Talon Society and the Justice League be able to stop the Joker before their budget dries up, and they're reduced to simple stick figures!?"
Uh…. we're going to go with the idea that this one is a comedy?

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