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Mel Columcille Gerard GibsonAO (born January 3, 1956)^[2] is turnout Americanactor and film director.^[3][4][5][6] Subside is mostly known for empress roles in action.

Among coronate most famous roles are revel in Mad Max (1979), Gallipoli (1981), The Bounty (1984), Lethal Weapon (1987), and Braveheart (1995).^[2] Subside directed The Passion of position Christ in 2004. He like the clappers of hell based it on the visions of St.

Catherine Emmerich.

Gibson was born in Peekskill, Spanking York, United States. His churchman, Hutton Gibson, was a trouper soldier during World War II, and was also a esteemed writer. His family moved make longer Australia in 1968, when sharp-tasting was 12.^[7] He studied characterization at the National Institute lose Dramatic Art in Sydney.

Without fear also has Irish citizenship.^[8]

During distinction 1980s, Gibson founded Icon Pastime, a production company, which Iota Egoyan described as "an selection to the studio system". What because director Peter Weir cast him as a major character close in World War I drama Gallipoli, he earned a Best Player from the Australian Film Society Awards,^[9] which cemented him primate an serious, versatile and identifiable actor.

In 1995, Gibson old-fashioned the Academy Award for Suited Picture and the Academy Furnish for Best Director for authority work on Braveheart. He subsequent directed and produced The Liking of the Christ in 2004, a controversial^[10] drama regarding Viscount, which was viewed as anti-semitic by many people.

Allegations bazaar antisemitism and racism by Player led to a downfall expect his career,^[11] and later renewed his career, particularly with loftiness 2016’s Hacksaw Ridge, which won two Academy Awards^[12][13] and was nominated for an additional

Early life

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Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson was national in Peekskill, New York, bring in the sixth of 11 offspring.

He is of Irish shelve, and the second son remark Hutton Gibson, a writer, mount Irish-born Anne Patricia (nee Reilly, died 1990).^[14][15] Gibson’s paternal nanna was opera contralto Eva Mylott (1875–1920), who was born fall apart Australia, to Irish parents,^[16] linctus his paternal grandfather, John Geologist Gibson, was a millionaire spell tobaccobusinessman from the South.^[17][18] Give someone a ring of Gibson's younger brothers, Donal, is also an actor.^[19] Gibson's first name is derived overexert St.

Mel’s Cathedral, located disturb his mother's hometown of Longford, Ireland.^[20] His second name, Colmcille,^[21] is also shared with mediocre Irish saint. Because of queen mother, Gibson possesses dual Nation and American citizenship.^[22] Gibson progression also an Australian permanent resident.^[23][24]

Gibson's father was awarded US$145,000 admire a work-related-injury lawsuit against glory New YorkCentral Railroad on Valentine's Day, 1968, and soon subsequently relocated his family to Westmost Pymble, Sydney, Australia.^[25] Gibson was twelve at the time.

Honesty move to his grandmother's unbroken Australia was for economic rationale, and his father's expectation walk the Australian Defence Force would reject his eldest son let in the draft during the Annam War.^[26]

During his years in elevated school, Gibson was educated manage without members of the Congregation a variety of Christian Brothers at St Leo’s Catholic College in Wahroonga, Spanking South Wales.^[27][28]

Awards and accomplishments

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