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Mel Gibson - Actor, director, producer

Occupation: Actor, director, producer Birth Name: Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson Birth Date: 01/03/1956 Birth Place: Peekskill, New York, USA Height: 5' 10 Sex: M Nationality: American Father: Hutton Gibson (b. August 26, 191 Mother: Ann Reilly (d. Dec 1990) Spouse: Robyn Moore (nurse, since June 7, 1980) Claim Fame: As Mad Max Rockatansky in "Mad Max" (1979)

Mel Gibson (born January 3, 1956) is an American-born Australian-reared actor, director and producer best known for either acting in Mad Max movie series, the Lethal Weapon series, Braveheart and directing The Passion of the Christ.
He was born Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson in Peekskill, New York, the sixth child of eleven born to Hutton Gibson and Ann.
Mel was born with a rare physical anomaly called "Horseshoe kidney." His two kidneys are fused at the base into a U shape. This fusion anomaly occurs in about one of every 400 people.
Although he maintained his United States citizenship, he was raised in Australia from the age of twelve. Following a victory on the TV game show Jeopardy!, Gibson's father, Hutton, moved his family to Australia in 1968 in protest of the Vietnam War and because he believed that changes in American society were immoral. Some people have attacked Hutton Gibson for religious views that he says are based on traditional Catholicism, and on his political opinions. A Roman Catholic, Mel Gibson has donated money to finance the construction of a traditional Catholic chapel in Malibu, California, called Holy Family. Because Gibson is a practicing Catholic, he has often been critized for his Catholic beliefs such as believing that abortion and homosexuality are wrong and immoral.
He got married to Robyn Moore on June 7, 1980 with whom he has six sons and one daughter.
After graduating from NIDA in 1977, Gibson's acting career began in Australia with appearances in the television series The Sullivans.
He made his Australian movie debut as the leather-clad post-apocalyptic survivor in George Miller's Mad Max, which later became a cult hit and launched two of its own sequels. His international profile increased through Peter Weir's anti-war First World War film Gallipoli. In 1984, he made his U.S. movie debut, starring as Fletcher Christian in The Bounty. Welsh actor Anthony Hopkins played opposite Gibson as Captain Bligh.
Gibson moved to more mainstream filmmaking with the popular Lethal Weapon series, where he starred as a maverick and violent cop, Martin Riggs, in a buddy relationship with his older and more conservative partner played by Danny Glover. Gibson surprisingly moved to the classical genre, playing the melancholy Danish prince in Franco Zeffirelli's movie of Shakespeare's Hamlet (1990). Gibson has been equally successful as a comedy actor, in movies such as Maverick (1994) and What Women Want (2000).
In 1996, Gibson received two Academy Awards (Best Director and Best Picture) for Braveheart (1995), based on the life of Sir William Wallace, a thirteenth century Scottish warlord who fought the English.
Mel Gibson recently completed The Passion of the Christ, a movie in Aramaic, Hebrew, and Latin, which recounts what Gibson describes as the last twelve hours of the life of Jesus Christ. The movie has received praise from many Christians and a number of politically conservative Jews (e.g., Michael Medved, David Horowitz, Steven Waldman).
The movie has been criticised by some liberal Christian and Jewish scholars, some of whom have claimed it may promote anti-Semitism, as it relies on passion-play images that have traditionally incited anti-Semitic incidents. The movie has been criticised by many Christian scholars for taking liberties with the New Testament storylines; a significant number of scenes and details in the movie are original ideas from an 19th century Catholic nun, Anne Catherine Emmerich, in her book "The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ."
Gibson was asked if his movie would be offensive to Jews today; his response was "It's not meant to. I think it's meant to just tell the truth. I want to be as truthful as possible. But when you look at the reasons Christ came, he was crucified—he died for all mankind and he suffered for all mankind. So that, really, anyone who transgresses has to look at their own part or look at their own culpability." He also stated in an interview in The New Yorker, that he trimmed a scene from The Passion of the Christ involving the Jewish high priest Caiaphas because if he did not, "they'd be coming after me at my house, they'd come to kill me."
For a further discussion, see a separate article on The Passion of Christ.
When the Carmelite nuns at the convent in Coimbra, Portugal got word out that they wanted to see a copy of the film before it was released on DVD, Gibson personally arranged for a special digital screening off of one inch tape and shipped in a projector and screens to view it and introduced the film in person. Later, he stopped by again to have a private meeting with the convent's most famous nun, Sister Lucia who is 98 and who is one of the three children who saw the vision of the Virgin Mary and were said to have been given secrets by her, known as the Fatima Secrets

Filmography:

Year	Name	Star	Genre	Other
2008	Under and Alone	William Queen	MV
2008	Sam and George	Pauly	MV
2007	Sam and George		MV
2006	Under and Alone	William Queen	MV
2004	Paparazzi	Anger Management Therapy Patient	MV
2003	The Singing Detective	Dr. Gibbon	MV
2002	We Were Soldiers	Lt. Col. Hal Moore	MV	aka Wir waren Helden (Germany)
2000	Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards 2000	Presenter	TV
2000	The Million Dollar Hotel	Detective Skinner	MV
2000	Chicken Run	Rocky	MV	aka C:R-1
2000	The Patriot	Benjamin Martin	MV	aka Patriot, Der (Germany)
1999	Payback	Porter	MV
1998	Lethal Weapon 4	Martin Riggs	MV	aka Lethal 4
1997	FairyTale: A True Story	Frances' Father	MV	aka Fairy Tale
1997	Fathers' Day	Scott the Body Piercer	MV
1996	Ransom	Tom Mullen	MV
1995	Pocahontas	Captain John Smith	MV
1995	Pocahontas	John Smith (voice)	MV	aka Amityville: The Demon
1994	Maverick	Brit Maverick, Jr.	MV
1993	The Chili Con Carne Club		MV
1992	Forever Young	Capt. Daniel McCormick	MV
1992	Lethal Weapon 3	Martin Riggs	MV
1990	Hamlet	Hamlet	MV
1985	Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome	'Mad' Max Rockatansky	MV	aka Mad Max 3
1984	The Bounty	Fletcher Christian Master's Mate	MV
1981	Punishment	Rick Monroe	TV
1981	Mad Max 2	'Mad' Max Rockatansky	MV	aka The Road Warrior
1980	The Chain Reaction	Bearded mechanic	MV	aka Nuclear Run
1979	Tim	Tim	MV
1977	Summer City	Scollop	MV	aka Coast of Terror
1977	I Never Promised You a Rose Garden	Baseball Player	MV
1976	The Sullivans	Ray Henderson	TV

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