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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 79. Chapters: Rupert Murdoch, Mel Gibson, Errol Flynn, Rick Springfield, Mia Farrow, Colin Edwards, Flea, Taylor Dent, Kristen Stewart, Harry Bridges, MC Lars, Soledad O'Brien, James Wolfensohn, Ken Ham, Clint Newton, Alex Winter, Bindi Irwin, Hayley Lever, Ed Blakely, Christopher Wilder, Debbie Rowe, Paul Scully-Power, Sean Flynn, Australian American, Mark Stoermer, Jill Ker Conway, Keir O'Donnell, Gregg Turkington, Andrew N. Liveris, Dominic Purcell, Valda Cooper, Martin Indyk, David Niu, Thelma Keane, Prudence Farrow, Tristan Rogers, Tisa Farrow, Pat Oliphant, Cameron Stephenson, Carsten Ball, Jerome Heckenkamp, Daryl Howland, Quentin Kawananakoa, John O. Limb, Richard W. Fisher, Brendan Mundorf, Jacinda Barrett, Via Tania, Marsha Waggoner, Chloe Rose Lattanzi, Leon Errol, Sumner Locke Elliott, Meg Mundy, Sydney Ducks, Nathalia Ramos, Sean Brosnan, Toba Khedoori, Ann Richards, Yani Gellman, Jess Mortensen, Brianna Keilar, Frank Arthur Nankivell, Susan Blanchard, Rachel Khedoori, Felicia Taylor, Nick Steele, Sam Farrar, John Henderson, George Frederick Boyle, Stephanie Farrow, John Helmer. Excerpt: Mel Colm-Cille Gerard Gibson, AO (born January 3, 1956) is an actor, film director, producer and screenwriter. Born in Peekskill, New York, Gibson moved with his parents to Sydney, Australia when he was 12 years old and later studied acting at the Australian National Institute of Dramatic Art. After appearing in the Mad Max and Lethal Weapon series, Gibson went on to direct and star in the Academy Award-winning Braveheart. In 2004, he directed and produced The Passion of the Christ, a controversial, yet successful, film portraying the last hours in the life of Jesus Christ. Outside his career, remarks by Gibson have generated accusations of homophobia, antisemitism, racism, and misogyny, he has previously attributed the statements to his alcoholism. Gibson was born in Peekskill, New York, the sixth of 11 children, and the second son of Hutton Gibson and Irish-born Anne Patricia (née Reilly, died 1990). His paternal grandmother was the Australian opera soprano, Eva Mylott (1875-1920). One of Gibson's younger brothers, Donal, is also an actor. Gibson's first name comes from Saint Mel, fifth-century Irish saint, and founder of Gibson's mother's native diocese, Ardagh, while his second name, Colm-Cille, is also shared by an Irish saint and is the name of the parish in County Longford where Gibson's mother was born and raised. Because of his mother, Gibson holds dual Irish and American citizenship. Soon after being awarded $145, 000 in a work-related-injury lawsuit against New York Central Railroad on February 14, 1968, Hutton Gibson relocated his family to West Pymble, Sydney, Australia. Mel Gibson was 12 years old at the time. The move to Hutton's mother's native Australia was for economic reasons, and because Hutton thought the Australian Defence Forces would reject his oldest son for the draft during the Vietnam War. Gibson was educated by members of the Congregation of Christian Brothers at St. Leo's Catholic College in Wahroonga, New South Wales, during his high sch