The sixth child of a family of 11 children: Who is Mel Gibson?

EXHAUSTED ACTOR: Gibson started his cinema career with the action movie "Mad Max". However, the famous actor Mel Gibson is remembered for his portrayal of William Wallace in the movie Braveheart.

By Stephen McWright Published on 28 Ekim 2023 : 15:48.
The sixth child of a family of 11 children: Who is Mel Gibson?

Mel Gibson had been excommunicated from Hollywood for nearly a decade. In 2006, he was detained while driving drunk and hurled insulting insults at the police at the police station. He had a very difficult time after this was reflected in the press. Afterward, the audio recording of his phone conversation with Oksana Grigorieva, the mother of his seven children, with whom he divorced his wife of 27 years and started to be together, was published. Here too, Gibson was making derogatory sentences about black people while insulting his wife. After these two incidents, he was ostracized by both producers and management companies. Behind Gibson's statement that Hollywood is under the control of Jewish businessmen, there is a process that goes back to before. 2004's "Passion: Hz. The bad portrayal of Jewish characters in the movie "The Passion of Jesus" caused serious discomfort. The film's statement that those who betrayed Jesus were Jews received serious criticism in Hollywood, but the production, which cost $30 million, achieved a box office success of $611 million worldwide.

Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson (born January 3, 1956) is an American actor, film director and producer. He is best known for his action hero roles, particularly his breakout role as Max Rockatansky in the first three films of the post-apocalyptic action series Mad Max and as Martin Riggs in the buddy cop action-comedy film series Lethal Weapon.

His real name is Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson. Mel Gibson was born on January 3, 1956, in Peekskill, New York, as the sixth child of a family of eleven children. His father, Hutton Gibson, worked at the New York Central Station.

When Gibson was 12 years old, his father was injured in an accident at work and won $145,000 in compensation as a result of the lawsuit. Thereupon, the family moves to the town of West Pymble in Sydney, Australia.

Gibson attended primary and high school at St Leo Catholic College in Wahroonga. He later entered the drama department of the University of New South Wales. During his student years, he played a young surfer named Scollop in a movie called "Summer City". After graduation, he joined the South Australian State Theatre. Gibson, who starred in many classic plays here, started his cinema career with the action movie "Mad Max".

Gibson, who gained great fame in Australia with his character Mad Max in the movie, also became known in America with the movie's sequel, "The Road Warrior". Then, he got his big break with the movie "Lethal Weapon", starring opposite Danny Glover. The serial movie was shot up to 4.

Gibson, who had the opportunity to act in projects of his own choosing with the prestige he gained, took part in films with a heavy emphasis on dramatic acting, such as "Hamlet" and "The Man Without a Face". The fact that these films did not receive the expected attention forced Gibson to return to action films.

Mel Gibson, who was both the director and the leading actor in the movie "Braveheart" about the fight against England, won two Oscar awards: Best Picture and Best Director.

Gibson, who played an airport official whose son was kidnapped in the thriller movie "Randsom", starred in the movie "Conspiracy Theory" with Julia Roberts in 1997. The following year, the famous actor, who signed the last of the "Lethal Weapon" series, played a thief trying to take revenge on his unbelieving wife and a double-playing friend in the high-budget thriller movie "Payback".

Mel Gibson, who starred in two films named "We Were Soldiers" and "Signs" in 2002, won the Australian Film Institute award for Best Actor for his role in "Gallipoli".

Passion - Hz., directed by the famous actor in 2004. The production called The Passion of the Christ also made a lot of noise.

Marriages:

Mel Gibson was married to Robyn Denise Moore in Australia for 31 years in 1980. The couple separated in April 2009 and divorced on January 9, 2012. They had 6 sons and 1 daughter from this marriage.

He was with his second relationship, Russian-born musician Oksana Grigorieva, for 2 years. From this union, a daughter named Lucia was born.