January 3rd , 1956
Mel Gibson, whose full name is Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson, was born on January 03, 1956.
He is an American-Australian actor, film director, producer, and screenwriter. Gibson is well-known for his roles in iconic films such as “Mad Max,” “Braveheart,” “Lethal Weapon,” and “The Passion of the Christ.”
He has also directed several successful movies, including “Braveheart,” which won multiple Academy Awards, including Best Director and Best Picture. Mel Gibson has had a notable career in the film industry and has made significant contributions to both acting and filmmaking.
Born in Peekskill, New York, Gibson moved with his parents to Sydney, Australia when he was 12 years old. He studied acting at the National Institute of Dramatic Art, where he starred opposite Judy Davis in a production of Romeo and Juliet. During the 1980s, he founded Icon Entertainment, a production company, which independent film director Atom Egoyan has called “an alternative to the studio system”.
In 1995, Gibson produced, directed, and starred in Braveheart, a historical epic, for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Director, the Academy Award for Best Director, and the Academy Award for Best Picture. He later directed and produced The Passion of the Christ, a biblical drama that was both financially successful and highly controversial. He received further critical notice for his directorial work of the action-adventure film Apocalypto (2006), which is set in Mesoamerica during the early 16th century.
