Mel Gibson

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AKA: Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson
Nationality: American
Birthdate: 01/03/1956
Birthplace: Peekskill, New York, USA

biography

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 Continued

Credits

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Dr Gibbon
2003
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Graham Hess
2002
Actor
2002
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2002
Detective Skinner
2001
Nick Marshall
2000
Benjamin Martin
2000
of Rocky the Rooster
2000
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1999-1999
of Mel Gibson
1999
Porter
1999
Martin Riggs
1998
Jerry Fletcher
1997
Tom Mullen
1996
of Captain John Smith
1995
Director
1995
William Wallace
1995
Producer
1995
Bret Maverick
1994
Martin Riggs
1992
Martin Riggs
1989
Martin Riggs
1987
Mad Max Rockatansky
1985
Guy Hamilton
1983
Frank Dunne
1981
Max Rockatansky
1980
Ed Biddle
Captain Paul Kelly
Tim Melville
Scollop
Dale McKussic
Hamlet
Fletcher Christian
Tom Garvey
Justin McLeod
Rick Jarmin
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milestones

Year
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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