The Showtime series will chronicle the fascinating and tragic life of American Jewish actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr. The series will be written by the creator of "The Affair," and will be produced by the executive producer of "The Handmaid's Tale"
Gal Gadot is close to signing a contract with the Showtime network in which she will star in a mini-series, reported by Deadline Hollywood. Gadot will play the lead in a series that will portray the life and career of the actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr. The series will be co-produced by Warren Littlefield, the executive producer of "The Handmaid's Tale" and former NBC president.
Hedy Lamarr
The famous Israeli actress has long been interested in participating in the Lamarr project, and apparently the American-Jewish actress\inventor has been called "the real life wonder woman" thanks to her inventions that served as a basis for the technology of WiFi and the GPS.
The story of Lamarr's life is fascinating and tragic. The actress, who was considered one of the most beautiful women in the world, became famous in 1933, when she first appeared in a film at the age of 19. Not long after, she married her first husband (out of six in total), who was close to people in the Nazi party. Later she ran away to Paris and then to London, where she signed an acting contract in Hollywood.
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Aside from her acting career, she was an inventor who never earned recognition for her inventions. At the beginning of World War II, she and composer George Antheil developed radio-broadcast technology that was later used in military communications systems by US Navy ships. This patent is the basis for later technologies like Bluetooth and WiFi. It was only in 2014 that this invention earned them a place in the National Hall of Fame for Inventors.
In her later years, Lamarr began undergoing plastic surgery to preserve the beauty she feared to lose, but the result was devastating. In the last decades of her life, she had shut herself up in her house and communicated with the outside world by phone only - even with family and friends. She died at the age of 85 of heart disease, and at her request, her ashes were scattered in a forest in Austria. Her life story was documented in a 2004 documentary called "Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story"