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AKA: Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson
Nationality: American
Birthdate: 01/03/1956
Birthplace: Peekskill, New York, USA
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Though introduced to American audiences as Australian, the strikingly handsome, blue-eyed Mel Gibson actually hailed from Peekskill, New York. (He and his family had emigrated Down Under in 1968 at the height of the Vietnam War.) After a season onstage with Sydney's South Australian Theatre Company where he portrayed both Oedipus and Henry IV, he made his name as the leather-clad, post-apocalyptic action hero of George Miller's "Mad Max" and in the radically different "Tim" (both 1979), for which he picked up his first of two Australian Film Institute Awards as Best Actor, playing a retarded
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Milestone
1968
Moved with family to Australia at 12 years old
1976
Made stage debut, opposite Judy Davis, in the National Institute of Dramatic Art's production of "Romeo and Juliet"
1976
Played a shy surfer in his film debut, "Summer City"
1976
Made TV debut on the Australian series, "The Sullivans"
1978
Joined the State Theatre Company of South Australia in Adelaide
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