Mel Gibson

Mel Colmcille Gerard Gibson AO (born Januar 3, 1956) is an American actor an filmmaker. He wis born in Peekskill, New York, an muived wi his parents tae Sydney, Australie, when he wis 12 year auld.

Mel Gibson AO
Gibson at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival
Born	Mel Colmcille Gerard Gibson (1956-01-03) 3 Januar 1956 (age 69) Peekskill, New York, United States
Thrift	Actor, filmmaker
Years active	1976–present
Net wirth	$425 million (2011)[1]
Hauf-marrae(s)	Robyn Moore (m. 1980; div. 2011)
Pairtner(s)	Oksana Grigorieva (2009–2010) Rosalind Ross (2014–present)
Bairns	9
Pawrents	Hutton Gibson Anne Reilly
Kin	Donal Gibson (brother) Eva Mylott (paternal grandmother)
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Gibson is best kent as an action hero, for roles sic as Martin Riggs in the Lethal Weapon buddy cop film series, an Max Rockatansky in the first three films in the Mad Max post-apocalyptic action series.

He studied actin at the Australian National Institute of Dramatic Art. During the 1980s, he foondit Icon Entertainment, a production company which independent film director Atom Egoyan haes cried, "an alternative to the studio system."^[2] Director Peter Weir cast him as ane o the leads in the creetically acclaimed Warld War I drama Gallipoli (1981), which earned Gibson a Best Actor Awaird frae the Australian Film Institute.^[3] The film helped tae earn Gibson the reputation o a serious, versatile actor.

In 1995, Gibson produced, directit, an starned in the epic historical drama film Braveheart, for which he wan the Gowden Globe an Academy Awaird for Best Director, alang wi the Academy Awaird for Best Pictur. In 2004, he directit an produced the financially successfu an controversial, biblical drama film The Passion of the Christ. He received further creetical notice for his directorial work o the 2006 action-adventur film Apocalypto, which is set in Mesoamericae during the early 16t century. In 2016, efter a 10-year hiatus frae directin, Gibson returned wi the creetically praised an financially successfu Hacksaw Ridge.