Mel Gibson
Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson AO is an American actor, film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is best known for his role as Max Rockatansky in the Mad Max series of films. In 1995, Gibson produced, directed, and starred in Braveheart, a historical epic, for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Director. He later directed and produced The Passion of the Christ, a biblical drama that was both financially successful and highly controversial. His career began seeing resurgence with his performance in Jodie Foster’s The Beaver, and his directorial comeback after an absence of 10 years, Hacksaw Ridge.
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Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson AO is an American actor, film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is best known for his role as Max Rockatansky in the Mad Max series of films. Gibson also starred as Martin Riggs in the buddy cop film series Lethal Weapon. In 1995, Gibson produced, directed, and starred in Braveheart, a historical epic, for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Director. He later directed and produced The Passion of the Christ, a biblical drama that was both financially successful and highly controversial. His career began seeing resurgence with his performance in Jodie Foster’s The Beaver, and his directorial comeback after an absence of 10 years, Hacksaw Ridge. Gibson has been compared to Cary Grant, Sean Connery, Robert Redford and Humphrey Bogart. Gibson’s first name is derived from St Mel’s Cathedral, the fifth-century Irish saint. His second name, Colmcille, is also shared by an Irish saint, and is the name of the Aughnacliffe parish in County Longford where Gibson’s mother was born and raised. Because of his mother, Gibson retains dual Irish and American citizenship. Gibson is also an Australian permanent resident. His father was awarded US$145,000 in a work-related-injury lawsuit against the New York Central Railroad on February 14, 1968, and soon afterwards relocated his family to West Pymble, Sydney, Australia. The move to his grandmother’s native Australia was for economic reasons and his father’s expectation that the Australian Defence Forces would reject his eldest son for the draft during the Vietnam War.
Gibson was educated by members of the Congregation of Christian Brothers at St Leo’s Catholic College in Wahroonga, New South Wales, during his high school years. He studied acting at the National Institute of Dramatic Art, where he starred opposite Judy Davis in a production of Romeo and Juliet. In the 1980s, he founded Icon Entertainment, a production company, which independent film director Atom Egoyan has called \”an alternative to the studio system\”. Gibson expanded into a variety of acting projects including human dramas such as the Zeffirelli version of Hamlet and comedic roles such as those in Maverick and What Women Without a Want: The Man Without a Face. He turned down the role of James Bond because he feared being typecast. Gibson once suggested that he should play the next James Bond to James Bond’s James Connery. He has also been likened to a combination Clark Gable and Humphreys Bogart, as well as Cary Grant and Robert Cagle. He won two Academy Awards and was nominated for another four, including Best Picture and Best Director for Gibson, his second nomination in the category. He received further critical notice for his directorials work of the action-adventure film Apocalypto, which is set in Mesoamerica during the early 16th century. Gibson gained very favorable notices from film critics when he first entered the cinematic scene, and comparisons to several classic movie stars.
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