Mel Gibson's biography

Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson is 66 years old film producer born at Peekskill, New York, USA. Mel was born on Tuesday 3rd of January 1956. Mel is often nicknamed as Gibbo, Mel Colmcille Gerard Gibson, Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson. According to year of birth 1956 Mel belongs to Boomers. Birthday on 3rd of January means he is Capricorn. These people are stable in nature. As the sign lord is “Saturn”, the person will be judgemental in his approach.

He is white american. He is citizen of United States of America. He is roman catholic. Mel´s primary profession is to be film producer. You can know Mel also as film actor, film director, writer, voice actor, screenwriter, television actor, stage actor. Mel is recently known as television producer. He received Academy Award for Best Director Braveheart in 1995

Mel Gibson's dad

Mel Gibson's father's name is Hutton Gibson. He is known as writer. His father was born on Monday 26th of August 1918 in New York City. Mel´s father died on Monday 11th of May 2020 in Thousand Oaks. Hutton Gibson was 64 years old, when this happened.

Mel Gibson's mom

Mel Gibson's mother's name is Anne Patricia Reilly.

Mel Gibson's family

Mel Gibson's ex wife

Robyn Moore

Mel Gibson and Robyn Moore have been together since 1980 for 31 years. She is known as voice actor. His ex wife was born in 1950 in Hobart.

He has 1 son.

Mel Gibson's son: Milo Gibson

Mel Gibson's son's name is Milo Gibson. He is known as actor. His son was born on Friday 16th of November 1990 in Los Angeles County.

Mel Gibson's schools

We found 1 school He attended. Name of the school: National Institute of Dramatic Art.

Detailed informations about his schools

Attended drama school with Judy Davis. They played Romeo and Juliet together.

Mel Gibson's career

His main focus is to be film producer. Mel is famous thanks to Max Rockatansky in the Mad Max film series, Martin Riggs in the Lethal Weapon film series, Sir William Wallace in Braveheart.

Is Mel Gibson gay ?

He is known to be straight.

Mel Gibson's girlfriends

Oksana Grigorieva

Mel Gibson and Oksana Grigorieva have been together since 2009 for a year. She is known as composer. Mel´s girlfriend was born on Monday 23rd of February 1970 in Saransk.

Rosalind Ross

Mel Gibson and Rosalind Ross have been together.

Awards and competitions

Mel Gibson's Awards

Awarded the AO (Officer of the Order of Australia), Australia's highest honor, in mid-1997.
Along with Warren Beatty, Clint Eastwood, Robert Redford, Richard Attenborough and Kevin Costner one of 6 people to win and Academy Award for "Best Director", though they are mainly known as actors.
Was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles in May 2003, and gave the commencement address.
He was awarded the honorary A.O. (Officer of the Order of Australia) in the 1997 Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to the Australian film industry.

Mel Gibson's Rankings

Ranked #12 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]
Ranked #15 in Premiere's 2003 annual "Power 100" list. Had ranked #17 in 2002.
Ranked #10 in Premiere's 2004 annual "Power 100" list. Had ranked #15 in 2003. He is the highest-ranked actor on the 2004 list.
Ranked #15 on Premiere's 2005 Power 50 List. Had ranked #10 in 2004.
His performance as "Mad" Max Rockatansky in the "Mad Max" trilogy is ranked #78 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.
Braveheart (1995) is ranked #62 on the American Film Institute's 100 Most Inspiring Movies of All Time.
Ranked #17 on Premiere's 2006 "Power 50" list. Had ranked #15 in 2005.

Mel Gibson's Nominations

Mel was nominated for Academy Award for Best Director for work Braveheart in 1995
Mel was nominated for Academy Award for Best Picture for work Braveheart in 1995
Mel was nominated for Academy Award for Best Director for work Hacksaw Ridge in 2016

What else you don't know about Mel Gibson ?

Mel´s middle name is Columcille Gerard.

What Mel Gibson has done for a first time

Chosen as People Magazine's first "Sexiest Man Alive." [1985]
First studied drama at the New Zealand Drama School, Toi Whakaari in Wellington, New Zealand. After getting accepted he completed the course and used this as a foot-in into NIDA in Australia in 1975.
He was the first Australian actor to be paid $1,000,000 for a film role.
In April, 2009, made a first public appearance together with his girlfriend, Oksana Grigorieva who was then three-months pregnant with his child.
Is expecting his ninth child with girlfriend Rosalind Ross. It is the ninth child for him and the first child for her.[September 2016].
He was the first choice to play Maximus in the film Gladiator but he turned it down.

Mel Gibson's Donations

When Apocalypto (2006) is finished, he plans to donate six replicas of Mayan pyramids and several movie-set villages.

Mel Gibson's quotes

I like directing much better. It's more fun, that's all there is to it. It's essentially the same job, which is storytelling, but you have more control over the way you want to tell the story. It's a high. I love it.
My fears: everything from being afraid that I'm going to run out of cream for my cornflakes right up to someone chopping my privates off.
On his involvement in Braveheart (1995) as actor, director and producer: "If you're going to wear three hats, you'd better grow two more heads."
On his religious beliefs: "I'm not a done deal. I'm a work in progress. I'm still extremely flawed."
You can't live up to what people expect. Nobody can. But I guess that's my problem, not theirs.
About the The Passion of the Christ (2004): This movie is about faith, hope, love and forgiveness. Themes that are as important now as they were in Jesus' time.
I wasn't exactly the most zealous keeper-of-the-flame, you know? I was a pretty wild boy quite frankly. Even now when I'm trying more than I was before, I still fail every day at some level, but that's being human.
I'd like to be able to wake up early every morning, but I don't. I'd like to quit smoking. I'd like to never lose my temper. The list goes on and on. I'd even like to get dressed by myself, and not have other people watching me.
I did a lot of crazy things so I'm surprised to be alive.
On human embryonic stem cell research: "I found that the cloning of human embryos will be used in the process and that, for me, I have an ethical problem with that. Why do I, as a taxpayer, have to fund something I believe is unethical?"
The fear mongering we depict in this film reminds me a little of President Bush and his guys. [on Apocalypto (2006)]
Vatican II corrupted the institution of the church. Look at the main fruits: dwindling numbers and pedophilia. - Time, January 27, 2003.
I might go and go somewhere no-one can find me. You know where that is? You know where the place is no-one can find you? I was thinking of pitching my tent right next to the weapons of mass destruction. Then no-one would find me.
"I probably sound like some egotist, you know, saying that the Roman Church is wrong, but I believe it is at the moment, since Vatican II." (1990)
Obviously, nobody wants to touch something filmed in two dead languages. They think I'm crazy, and maybe I am. But maybe I'm a genius.
My biggest weakness is that I'm excessive. Fortunately for everyone concerned, I'm not as excessive as I used to be.
I think the Lethal Weapon movies contain my favorite performances. It sounds really crummy, I know, but although the work doesn't look hard, it's difficult to create effortless on screen.
Hollywood is a factory. You have to realize that you are working in a factory and you're part of the mechanism. If you break down, you'll be replaced.
The precursors to a civilization that's going under are the same, time and time again. What's human sacrifice if not sending guys off to Iraq for no reason?
"Film-making is what I love now. I don't want to be the star of a movie anymore." (December 2006)
[In response to winning more Oscars after his first]: "It's a wonderful feeling, but I'm not gonna kill myself trying to win another one."
I am politically incorrect, that's true. Political correctness to me is just intellectual terrorism. I find that really scary, and I won't be intimidated into changing my mind. Everyone isn't going to love you all the time.
I shouldn't have said it, but I was tickling a bit of vodka during that interview, and the quote came back to bite me on the ass. - On his controversial 1992 interview with a Spanish magazine.
I had really good highs but some very low lows. I found out recently I'm manic depressive. (2002)
William Wallace was around 28 when he died and I was already ten years older than that, although at least my knees weren't wrinkly!
When all's said and done, I did a pretty good hatchet job on my marriage. I'm to blame, if you're inclined to judge.
Nobody is without sin. You have to try to make amends if you can. You have to shut up and move on and not whine about it. And you have to deal with it like a man. You've just got to accept your own culpability.
I feel sorry for Tiger Woods. Why are we talking about this when we're sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan? He's being used as a diversion, and it just drives me crazy.
Barack Obama is a man with an impossible task on his hands. He got left a mess and I wish him all the best but I don't think he's going to fix it in five minutes and probably not in his entire tenure.
Feminists don't like me, and I don't like them. I don't get their point. I don't know why feminists have it out for me, but that's their problem, not mine.
[on Jodie Foster] You couldn't get two people who are more diametrically opposed on everything that they think about religion and politics than we do. But there's a core of goodness there that's undeniable, and I just love her.
[on the death of Robin Williams] It's unspeakably sad. He was an exceptional human being, an extraordinary talent, and he had no equal. He set his own benchmark and people have aspired to hit it. I don't think anyone quite did.
We're all a bunch of different and contradictory bits. I'm no closer to explaining who I am than anyone else is.
[on George Miller and Peter Weir] I kicked off my career working with two of the world's greatest from home. How come those guys were there? Of course at the time I didn't know who they were. But I realized pretty quickly they were special.
(On The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)) "I didn't necessarily see my role as a great challenge. My character was, like the film suggests, a puppet. And I went with that. It wasn't some star thing, even though they advertised it that way."
(On his character in The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)) "He's not a silver-tongued devil. He's kind of immature and he has some rough edges and I guess you could say the same for me."
I had really good highs but some very low lows. I found out recently I'm manic depressive.
"Alcoholism is something that runs in my family. It's something that's close to me. People do come back from it, and it's a miracle." (1992)
(On The Man Without a Face (1993)) "I read the script first and that's what I liked. The book is just - I'm sorry, but the guy did it. And you know, like, why? I just wanted to say something a lot more positive.
I think I've scratched the surface after twenty years of marriage. Women want chocolate and conversation.
(On his character in The Patriot (2000)) "I think I would have made him a slave holder. Not to seems kind of a cop-out."
I love women. They're the best thing ever created. If they want to be like men and come down to our level, that's fine.
[on Hamlet (1990)] I mean, it's a great story. It's got some great things in it. I mean, there's something like eight violent deaths.
[on filming Braveheart] When you're an actor and when filming is done, you can go home, but when you're directing, you're only half way through.
[on the definition of "ultimate love" while filming Hacksaw Ridge] putting your life on the line for the other by saving your fellow brothers in arms when bullets are flying by your head on the battlefield.
[advice he would give his younger self]Don't be so caught up in the little things. Take advantage of all the gifts the world has to offer. Live every day to the fullest, and then Shut the fuck up
I like telling stories where no one says anything. [Hollywood Reporter, 2017]
[on The three E's of filmmaking: Entertain, to Educate and to Elevate]if you can do all three of these you'll be ok in Hollywood and in filmmaking
Things got shaken up a little bit and there is a lot of light being thrown into places where there were shadows and that is kind of healthy. It's painful, but I think pain is a precursor to change.
[on the Holocaust] I mean when the war was over they said it was 12 million. Then it was six. Now it's four. I mean it's that kind of numbers game.
I've quit smoking again, it was torture. The first three days I was like an axe murderer, day four, I'd be ready to come at you with a baseball bat, day five, I was dangerous with a lawnmower - it is a hellish habit to break.
Now, maybe it was just that very day that Lebanon and Israel were at it, you know.
Let me be real clear here, in sobriety, sitting here, in front of you, national television, that I don't believe that Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world. I mean that's an outrageous, drunken statement.
Ten years have gone by. I'm feeling good. I'm sober, all of that kind of stuff, and for me it's a dim thing in the past. But others bring it up, which kind of I find annoying, because I don't understand why after ten years it's any kind of issue.
[on his anti-Semitic remarks] It's behind me; it's an eight-year-old story. It keeps coming up like a rerun, but I've dealt with it and I've dealt with it responsibly and I've worked on myself for anything I am culpable for.

Mel Gibson's height, weight, body shape, eye color

Lets describe how Mel Gibson looks. We will focus on Mel´s height, weight, body shape, eye color and hair color. Mel is tall as 5' 9¾" (177 cm). He weights 191lbs (87 kg). Body build is athletic. His eyes are tinted blue. His hair is shade of brown - dark.

Mel Gibson