Celebrity- Mel Gibson

Mel Gibson
Born-January 3, 1956 in Peekskill, New York.
Full Name-Mel Colm-Cille Gerard Gibson
Height-5' 9
Education-All-boys Catholic school
National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney, Australia
South Australia Theater Company.

Actor, director, producer. Born on January 3, 1956, in Peekskill, New York. Gibson was the sixth of 11 children born to Hutton and Ann Gibson, who were Roman Catholics of Irish descent. Shortly after the onset of the Vietnam War, Hutton Gibson relocated his family to Australia for fear that his sons would be drafted into battle. Mel spent the remainder of his childhood in Sydney, where he attended an all-boys Catholic high school and later studied acting at the National Institute of Dramatic Art.



His first prominent role was in Mad Max and its sequels, the Aussie apocalyptic action flicks that became worldwide hits. Mad Max became the biggest commercial success of any Australian film, grossing over $100 million worldwide. He has been a popular movie star ever since, and was selected as People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive in 1985. In addition to his acting successes, Gibson also won Oscars for Best Director and Best Picture for Braveheart. He also directed The Man Without a Face, The Passion of the Christ, and the pilot for an abysmal sitcom he produced, Complete Savages.

Mel Gibson's first American film was Mark Rydell’s 1984 drama The River, in which he and Sissy Spacek played struggling Tennessee farmers. Gibson then starred in the gothic romance Mrs. Soffel for Australian director Gillian Armstrong. He and Matthew Modine played condemned convict brothers opposite Diane Keaton as the warden's wife who visits them to read the Bible. In 1985, after working on four films in a row, Gibson took almost two years off at his Australian cattle ranch. He returned to play the role of Martin Riggs in Lethal Weapon, a film which helped to cement his status as a Hollywood star. Gibson's next film was Robert Towne’s Tequila Sunrise, followed by Lethal Weapon 2 in 1989. After starring in three films back-to-back, Bird on a Wire, Air America, and Hamlet, Gibson took another hiatus from Hollywood.


After his success in Hollywood with the Lethal Weapon series, Gibson began to move into producing and directing. With partner Bruce Davey, Gibson formed Icon Productions in 1989 in order to make Hamlet. Gibson has also produced a number of projects for television, including a biopic on The Three Stooges and the 2008 PBS documentary Carrier.


Gibson made his directorial debut in 1993 with The Man Without a Face, followed two years later by Braveheart, which earned Gibson the Academy Award for Best Director.

Filmography
1977 -Summer City
-I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
1979 -Mad Max
-Tim(Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role)
1980 -The Chain Reaction
1981 -Mad Max 2
-Gallipoli(Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role)
1982 -The Year of Living Dangerously
-Attack Force Z
1984 -Mrs. Soffel
-The River
-The Bounty
1985-Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
1987-Lethal Weapon
1988-Tequila Sunrise
1989-Lethal Weapon 2
1990-Hamlet
-Air America
-Bird on a Wire
1992-Forever Young
-Lethal Weapon 3(MTV Movie Award for Best Action Sequence and Best On-Screen Duo)
1993-The Man Without a Face
-The Chili Con Carne Club
1994-Maverick
1995-Pocahontas
-Braveheart
1996-Ransom
1997-FairyTale: A True Story
-Conspiracy Theory
-Fathers' Day
1998-Lethal Weapon 4
1999-Payback
2000-What Women Want
-The Patriot
-Chicken Run
-The Million Dollar Hotel
2002-We Were Soldiers
-Signs
2003-The Singing Detective
2004-Paparazzi
2006-Who Killed the Electric Car?
2010-Edge of Darkness
2011-The Beaver

Director
1993-The Man Without a Face
1995-Braveheart-Academy Award for Best Director
-Golden Globe Award for Best Director
-Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Director
-National Board of Review Special Achievement in Filmmaking
2004-The Passion of the Christ(Satellite Award for Best Director)
2006-Apocalypto

Producer
1992-Forever Young
1995-Braveheart
2000-The Three Stooges
2001-Invincible
2003-Family Curse
-The Singing Detective
2004-The Passion of the Christ
-Paparazzi
2005-Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man
2006-Apocalypto
2008-Another Day in Paradise



Screenwriter
2004-The Passion of the Christ
2006-Apocalypto