| Full
Name |
Mel
Columcille Gerard Gibson |
| Also
known as |
Prankster
|
| Profession |
Actor
, Producer, director |
| Date
of birth |
3
January 1956 |
| Birth
place |
Peekskill,
New York |
| Eyes |
blue
|
| Height |
5'
10" |
| Father |
Hutton
Gibson (railroad brakeman) |
| Mother |
Ann
Gibson (Australian opera singer) |
| Wife |
Robyn
Moore (dental nurse) |
| Children |
daughters: Hannah,
Louis
Sons: twins
Edward and Christian, William, Milo, Tommy
|
| Education |
School: All
Boys Catholic School
College:
National Institute of Dramatic Arts, University
of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.
|
| Earlier
jobs |
Was
employed at an orange juice bottling plant in Sydney
and also worked in South Australia Theatre Company
in small roles |
| Person
to recognize his talent |
His
elder sister Mary submitted an application
to the National Institute of Dramatic Arts without
his knowledge which later started his movie career.
|
| Debut |
Australian films:Summer
city(1976)
Australian TV:
The sullivans
American films:
The bounty(1984)
Director: The
man without a face(1993)
Producer: Braveheart(1995)
Singing: Pocahontas(sang
for John Smith)(1995)
|
| Business
owned |
Owns
a production company - Icon Productions |
| Claim
to fame |
'Max
Rockatansky' in Mad Max (1979) |
| Best
remembered as |
Martin
Riggs, an explosive homicide cop (lethal weapon
) |
| Likes
to watch |
The
three stooges |
Awards
and
Honors |
- In 1995,
the medieval epic film Braveheart
won 5 Oscar awards and he won the Best actor and Best
director awards.
- Australian Film Institute
(AFI) Award for Best Actor for the films Tim and
Gallipoli.
- Awarded the AO (Officer
of the Order of Australia), Australia's highest honor,
in 1997.
- Ranked #12 in Empire
(UK) magazine's "The Top 100
Movie Stars of All Time" list.
- Chosen by People magazine
as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the world
for a number of times.
|
| Salary |
$25 million for acting in 'Patriot |
| Facts |
Got married
to Robyn Moore on June 7, 1980
Has a horseshoe
kidney
He thought of
becoming a chef or a journalist
A very good
cook
Suffered from
terrible stage fright and was so nervous in
his first play that he was unable to stand and
had to play the role sitting down.
His father,
Hutton Gibson, moved the family from US to
Australia in 1968 after winning as a contestant
on "Jeopardy" (game show) and was also
afraid that his sons would be drafted during
the Vietnam war.
Has spent nearly
$30 million of his own money to produce, co-write
and direct controversial movie THE PASSION.
The producers
of MAD MAX were looking for someone beaten and
rough for the role of Max. The night before
his audition for the film, he had his face cut
in a bar fight and landed in the role of Max
which made him very famous.
His voice in
MAD MAX (1979) was dubbed after producers were
concerned that American audiences wouldn't understand
his then-thick Australian accent.
He is a devout
Catholic and has private chapel in the
back yard of his $3 million home in
California, USA
In 1991 he joined
Alcoholics Anonymous to quit drinking.
|
| About
the character 'Alexander the great' |
"I
studied him at school and found him to be one of
the most fascinating, tragic, flawed, yet perfect
in some ways, characters." |
| Quote |
"The
only way to maintain a moderate sum of happiness
in this life, is not to worry about the future or
regret the past too much" |
Compiled by: Poongodi Sivagurunathan
Courtesy: Net
Resources
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