Mel Gibson

About Mel Gibson

Mel Gibson is an American-born actor, director, producer, and screenwriter whose career spans Australian cinema, Hollywood action stardom, prestige historical drama, and later independent and genre films. He was born Mel Colm-Cille Gerard Gibson in Peekskill, New York, on January 3, 1956. When he was a child, his family moved to Australia, and Gibson later trained at the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney.…