Mel Gibson
| Mel Gibson | |
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Mel Gibson at the premiere of Air America in 1990 | |
| Birth name | Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson |
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| Birth | 3 January 1956 (1956-01-03) (age 55) Peekskill , New York , United States |
| Nationality |  U.S. |
| Occupation (s) | Actor Producer Director Scriptwriter |
| Notable Films | Mad Max The Year of Living Dangerously Lethal Weapon Maverick Braveheart The Ransom The Patriot Signs The Passion of Christ Apocalypto |
| Honors | Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor Oscar Best Film Oscar Best Director Golden Globe Best Director |
| Website | http://www.melgibsonsite.com/ |
Mel Gibson is an actor , director , screenwriter and film producer American born on 3 January 1956 in Peekskill , in the State of New York.
Mel Gibson is famous for having held the title roles in Mad Max and Lethal Weapon. It is also recognized for his accomplishments, including the Oscar-winning Braveheart and the controversial The Passion of Christ. The films in which he played reported more than 2 billion dollars U.S..
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Mel Gibson was born January 3, 1956, in Peekskill in the State of New York. It was the sixth of eleven children (six girls, five boys) of Hutton Gibson and Anne Reilly Gibson. His mother was Irish and his paternal grandmother, Eva Mylott, was a singer of opera in Australia. One of his brothers, Donal, is also an actor.
In 1968 , the Gibson family moved to Australia when Mel was only twelve. The father had just won his trial for accident against his employer and had received 145,000 in compensation. The emigration to Australia was a sign of protest against the Vietnam War at a time when the elder Gibson might be called to carry out his military service. It was also Hutton Gibson, a Catholic devotee, a way to protest against the moral decay he saw in the changing mores of American society. Film Career In 1977 , Mel Gibson is a graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Arts in Sydney. He began his career as an actor in the television series The Sullivans and the film Summer City. His first hit film takes place in 1979 when he played the hero in Mad Max 's director George Miller. This movie sci-fi low-budget meeting with unexpected success, bringing hundreds of millions of dollars around the world. Mel Gibson is then propelled him to star in the film. Two other films followed, centered around the character of Max ( Mad Max 2 and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome ). He immediately decided to vary his roles, evidenced by his performance of mentally retarded in Tim ( 1979 ) and as a young soldier unconscious in Gallipoli ( 1981 ) by Peter Weir. These two benefits enable it to earn its stripes as critical as two Best Actor Awards from the Australian Film Institute. Mel Gibson back then under the direction of Peter Weir The Year of Living Dangerously , in 1982. In 1984 , Mel Gibson leaves the Australia and resumed the role of Fletcher Christian in The Bounty , with next to Anthony Hopkins , Liam Neeson and Daniel Day-Lewis. In 1987 , he became really popular in the United States for his role as cop suicide in Lethal Weapon (Lethal Weapon) by Richard Donner. This thriller is a huge worldwide success, as her 3 suites, and a duo of policemen with Danny Glover becomes worship. Mel Gibson is now one of the highest paid actors of Hollywood. After further action films , he turned to the classic tragedy by taking up the role of Hamlet in the film by Franco Zeffirelli , where his partner as famous as actors Ian Holm and Alan Bates. Mel Gibson starts shortly after the production (through his company Icon Productions ) with Forever Young then proceeded to directing with The Man Without a Face , in which he plays a professor disfigured. At the peak of his career, he finds the director Richard Donner for western Maverick. In 1995 , Mel Gibson tackles his most ambitious work, the historical film Braveheart , where he played the patriot Scots William Wallace. This great public and critical success earned him the Oscar for best film and best director Oscar and the Golden Globe for best director. After this triumph, he went thrillers big budget ( Ransom , Conspiracy Theory , Payback ), but also tried his hand at film writer with The Million Dollar Hotel by Wim Wenders. In the year 2000 , it is the war movie with The Patriot, the path to freedom from Roland Emmerich , this did not stop to taste the romantic comedy with What Women Want for Nancy Meyers. Subsequently, he found the writer of Braveheart, Randall Wallace , who directed him in We Were Soldiers. He eventually faced with a supernatural phenomenon in Signs of M. Night Shyamalan , who remains to this day the best start of his career. In 2004 , he wrote, produced and directed The Passion of Christ , a reconstruction of the last twelve hours of Jesus Christ. The film was shot in Aramaic , in Hebrew and Latin. The movie reviews are very mixed, deploring the bloody scenes. This does not prevent him from breaking records at the box office , being appointed to the Oscars and receive the audience award for best drama. In 2006 , Mel Gibson continues his directing career with Apocalypto , a fresco on the Empire Maya which is located just before the conquest Spanish of Central America. In 2010 , after six years of absence as an actor, he returned to the camera in the thriller Edge of Darkness by Martin Campbell. The next film by Mel Gibson would again be an epic movie, this time based on the Viking , with output expected in 2012. Leonardo DiCaprio was announced to take a role, but withdrew following the recent scandal of violence and racism in which Mel Gibson has found. It should also participate in the film Very Bad Trip 2 in the role of a tattooist, but following a boycott of its presence in the film after his escapades, he is immediately excluded from the project and was replaced by Liam Neeson. , Mel Gibson married Robyn Moore on 7 June 1980 in the town of Forestville, in New South Wales (Australia). The couple has seven children (six boys and one girl). His daughter, Hannah Gibson married to musician Kenny Wayne Shepherd on 16 September 2006. Mel Gibson is a traditionalist Catholic religion while his wife is Anglican. Very religious, attached to the Tridentine Mass, Mel Gibson has publicly denounced the research on stem cells from ' embryos human disconnection of appliances that kept Terri Schiavo alive. It however supports the death penalty by traditionalist design that conceives only for exceptional circumstances. Although not forming special advertising, Mel Gibson is involved in many philanthropic or charity as Healing the Children. Upon completion of Apocalypto, Mel Gibson said the donation of several thousand dollars to build houses for the inhabitants of the Yucatan region following major floods. Mel Gibson financed the construction of a church that seats 400 people with a donation of U.S. 37 million in the hills of Malibu. In addition, Gibson owns the company that will do this work. Masses respecting the Tridentine rite are given each morning. In April 2009, his wife, Robyn, filed for divorce after 27 years of marriage. On October 30, 2009, his fiancee Oksana Grigorieva gives birth to a girl named Lucia. It is the 8 th child of Mel Gibson. Mel Gibson has never publicly identified with conservative Republicans , despite U.S. statements to the contrary in newspapers like the Washington Times or the site WorldNetDaily. It should produce the film Michael Moore , Fahrenheit 9 / 11 , but was eventually sold its rights to Miramax Films. Moore had said then that the Republicans had intimidated Mel Gibson. In 1995 , in an interview to Playboy magazine, Gibson lashed out at President Bill Clinton in which he saw a low-level opportunist. Opposed to Iraq War , Mel Gibson said in 2006 that certain events or characters in his film Apocalypto , there was a bit of President " George W. Bush and his guys. " Some groups gay denounced the homophobia of Mel Gibson. They are based on an interview in 1992 the actor to the newspaper El Pas , where, against them, he said "They put it in the ass," showing his middle finger. He has always vigorously denied all charges of homosexuality against him ("Have I the voice of a homosexual? Do I talk like them? Do I move like them?" I do not think so. " ). On several occasions he has attempted to show that he was not homophobic by participating in public events for gays and lesbians directors. According to Wensley Clarkson, author of an unauthorized biography of Mel Gibson, the actor would experience problems with alcohol since adolescence. In 1984 , he was already arrested for driving while intoxicated in Toronto. In 2004 , in an interview with Diane Sawyer , Gibson admitted having abused drugs in the past as well as alcohol. On 28 July 2006 , he was arrested while drunk and holds about anti-Semitic. He will present his sincere apologies, on 1 August 2006, the Jewish community, excuses were accepted by the organization Anti-Defamation League. On 17 August 2006 , he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to three years probation. He then announced to have entered a detoxification program. The Gibson family did not usually communicate about their humanitarian commitment, yet we knew they supported institutions by giving them substantial sums. Among these institutions is Healing the Children. From Cris Embleton, one of its founders, the Gibsons have given millions of dollars to fund medical treatment for children in need worldwide. The Gibson also supported the arts: they have funded the restoration of works of art from the Renaissance and gave several million dollars to NIDA or Mel Gibson made his classes. During the filming of Apocalypto in Mexico, Mel Gibson has donated one million dollars to the Rotary Club to build houses for people who lost their homes after heavy flooding. The director said his gesture: "They have a lot of flooding there. It was like in Louisiana, in these regions further south. They have experienced very severe flooding and something like a million people were left displaced and bereaved. I always think that if you go into the country for someone else to make a movie, you do not go to just enjoy the scene. You bring a gift. It's like going into someone's house. You bring a bottle of wine, a bouquet of flowers or a box of chocolate and it's the same kind of thing on a larger scale when you go into the country from someone and they will help you your movie. You help them first somehow or you give them a gift or you help them as you can. That's why we have somehow helped to damage related to flooding. " Gibson was also involved in a discrete manner by supporting other artists who personally suffered from addiction to addictive substances. It is particularly intervened to support Robert Downey Jr. when he was at the Corcoran State Prison. The singer of rock Courtney Love thanked Mel Gibson for having saved her from a relapse into drugs after the actor has helped to rehabilitate. Gibson saw the singer at a hotel in Los Angeles when she was beginning to take drugs. Courtney Love later testified, "I said, slamming the door in his face. There were two drug addicts with me who would not go away, then nobody could take me back to the rehabilitation center. But thanks to Mel, two drug addicts have gone for a bite to eat with him because it was Mel Gibson. While Warren (Boyd, guardian) could get me and put me at center. " Gibson has donated 500,000 dollars to the El Mirador Basin Project to protect the last track through the jungle in Central America and to pursue archaeological research on the civilization of the Mayas. In July 2007 , Gibson again visited Central America to make donations and organize their use for the indigenous population. He met with President Oscar Arias , President of Costa Rica. Mel Gibson lent his voice to his own character in the television series The Simpsons , in the 1 st episode of the eleventh season of the series. He was parodied in the television series South Park (episode The Passion of the Jew ), where he is described as a dangerous sado-masochistic , and Epic Movie which is seen in prison because he was driving while intoxicated. In Quebec , Mel Gibson is doubled by Hubert Gagnon. In France , the comedian Jacques Frantz , who lends his voice. Family life and religious
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Accusations of homophobia
Drugs, alcohol, anti-Semitism
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Mel Gibson in popular culture
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Director The Man Without a Face (1993) Braveheart (1995) The Passion of the Christ (2004) Apocalypto (2006)
Television: The Savages (2004, Season 1, episodes 1, 2 and 11) See also List as an actor List as a producer 
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