Mel Gibson naked

Birth name: Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson

Gender: Male

Spouse: Moore, Robyn (7 June 1980 - present) 7 children

Profession: Actor

Height: 5' 10" (1.79 m)

Trivia

Ranked #12 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]

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"That's the way you should do it. Take a garbage role for the money, like Lethal Weapon 4, and then do what you want to do. He's a cool fella."
- Peter Stormare"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.'"If you're going to wear three hats, you'd better grow two more heads". [Regarding his involvement in Braveheart (1995) as actor, director and producer.]"There is no salvation for those outside the Church...I believe it. Put it this way. My wife is a saint. She's a much better person than I am. Honestly. She's like, Episcopalian, Church of England. She prays, she believes in God, she knows Jesus, she believes in that stuff. And it's just not fair if she doesn't make it, she's better than I am. But that is a pronouncement from the chair. I go with it."
[About 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."

Salary Signs (2002) $25,000,000 We Were Soldiers (2002) $25,000,000 Patriot, The (2000) $25,000,000 Chicken Run (2000) ?1,000,000 Conspiracy Theory (1997) $20,000,000 Ransom (1996) $20,000,000 Maverick (1994) $15,000,000 Lethal Weapon 3 (1992) $10,000,000 Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) $1,200,000 (Australia) Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981) $120,000 (Australia) Mad Max (1979) $15,000 (Australia) Summer City (1977) $400 (Australian)
Biography from Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia: The not-very-obscure object of desire for countless female film fans, this Australian heartthrob was actually born in the U.S., emigrating Down Under at the age of 12. His grandmother was an Australian opera singer who had moved to the States, and when Gibson's father, a railroad brakeman, was injured on the job, he used the settlement money to move Gibson and his 11 siblings back to the old country. Gibson studied at the National Institute of Dramatic Arts, where as a student he made his cinema debut in Summer City (1976). Three years later he was cast as a young retarded man in Tim (1979), which earned him Australia's equivalent of the Oscar. He then won the lead in a grade-B sci-fi film called Mad Max and that film's improbable success (over $100 million at the box office and two sequels) launched Gibson on the road to stardom. Road Warrior (1981) satisfied his Mad Max fans, but Gibson scored mainstream successes in starring roles in two pictures directed by fellow Aussie Peter Weir. In Gallipoli (1981) he played a young soldier unaware of impending massacre, and in The Year of Living Dangerously (1983), he portrayed an Australian journalist and sometime love interest of Sigourney Weaver. He costarred with Anthony Hopkins in The Bounty (1984), taking the Fletcher Christian role that was previously played by Clark Gable and Marlon Brando.Gibson has worked hard to shed the image, in which he was typed early in his career, as a good-looking hunk with meager acting talents. In addition to breadand-butter roles in such action pictures and thrillers as Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (1985) and Tequila Sunrise (1988), he has tackled more demanding roles, notably opposite Diane Keaton in Mrs. Soffel (1984) and playing the title role (surprisingly well) in Hamlet (1990). He's most popular in lighthearted fare, where he can superimpose his own boisterous humor on his characters: the Lethal Weapon trilogy (1987, 1989, 1992), Bird on a Wire and Air America (both 1990). The father of six children, he has shown real interest in upbeat, heartwarming movie fare, as evidenced by the romantic drama Forever Young (1992) and the film he chose for his directing debut, The Man Without a Face (1993), in which he also starred. He returned to his m?tier for the movie version of Maverick (1994), then tackled the hugely ambitious epic Braveheart (1995) and did himself proud as actor, director, and producer. In 1995 he also provided the voice of Captain John Smith for Disney's animated Pocahontas. His film company, Icon Productions, made the Beethoven biopic Immortal Beloved (1994).

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