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   Gibson became an actor by chance — his sister forced him to go to an audition. He had been in a fight the day before, and the producers were looking for a guy who would be photogenic even with traces of a beating on his face.

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   In youth Shakespeare productions, he usually played Romeo, but once he managed to play... Juliet!

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   Mel has Irish roots.

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   While in college, Mel shared a room with future actor Geoffrey Rush.

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   Founder of the film company "Icon Production".

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   Full name is Mel Colmcille Gerard Gibson.

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   He has a rare but harmless anomaly of the body: kidneys fused from birth.

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   In 1984, Gibson was fined four hundred dollars and had his driver's license suspended for three months for driving while intoxicated.

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   Gibson owns his own island in the Fiji archipelago, which he bought for $15 million.

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    Children: daughter - Hannah Gibson (born in 1980), twins - Christian Gibson and Edward Gibson (born in 1982), sons - Louis Gibson (born in 1987), Milo Gibson (born in 1990), Thomas Gibson (born in 1999), William Gibson (born in 1984), with Robyn Moore. And daughter Lucia with Oksana Grigorieva.

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    Graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Art of Australia.

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    At one time he agreed to play Batman, Agent 007, and the mutant Wolverine, but his candidacy was withdrawn due to his huge fee demands.

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    For his first major film role, the actor received only $15,000.

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    He is the sixth of eleven children in the family of Hutton and Anne Gibson.

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    Gibson is a Republican, but he harshly criticized Bush for political adventurism and for starting the war in Iraq.

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    On January 20, 2017, screenwriter Rosalind Ross gave birth to Mel Gibson's son, Lars Gerard Gibson.