Side by Side: We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future together.

Actor, film director, producer and screenwriter                          

Selected Works:

Theatre Credits:

Le Chateau d'Hydro-Therapie Magnetique by Helmut Bakaitis - Jane Street Theatre, Sydney, 1976 - with Steve Bisley
Mother and Son by Louis Esson - NIDA Theatre, Sydney, 1977 - with Steve Bisley and Judy Davis, directed by Aubrey Mellor
The Hostage by Brendan Behan - NIDA Theatre, Sydney, 1977 - with Steve Bisley, directed by George Whaley
Once in a Lifetime by Kaufman and Hart - NIDA, Sydney, 1977 - with Steve Bisley and Judy Davis, directed by Richard Wherrett
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
Oedipus the King by Sophocles - Adelaide Festival of the Arts, 1978 - with Colin Friels
Cedoona by Roger Pulvers - Adelaide Festival of the Arts, 1978 - with Colin Friels and Judy Davis directed by Ron Blair
The Les Darcy Show by Jack Hibberd - Adelaide, 1978 - with Colin Friels and Judy Davis, directed by Ron Blair
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare - Perth & Sydney, 1979 - with Angela Punch-McGregor directed by John Bell
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett - with Geoffrey Rush
On Our Selection by Bert Bailey and Edmund Duggan - Sydney, 1979 - directed by George Whaley
No Names, No Pack Drill by Bob Herbert - Sydney, 1981 - with Noni Hazelhurst
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller as Biff - Sydney, 1982 - with Warren Mitchell directed by George Ogilvie
Love Letters by A. R. Gurney - Telluride, Colorado, 1993 - with Sissy Spacek                          

Mother Anne Patricia née Reilly - died 1990
Father Hutton Gibson, eleven children
Spouse Robyn Moore Gibson - married 1980, separated 2006, divorced 2011, six sons, one daughter
Ex girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva - one daughter, born 2009

                          

Awards:

Australian Film Institute Award: Best Actor in a Lead Role, for Tim - 1979 and Gallipoli - 1981
Academy Award: Best Picture, for Braveheart - 1995
Academy Award: Best Director, for Braveheart - 1995
People's Choice Awards: Favorite Motion Picture Actor - 1991
People's Choice Awards: Favorite Motion Picture Star in a Comedy - 2001
ShoWest Award: Male Star of the Year - 1993
ShoWest Award: Director of the Year - 1996
American Cinematheque Gala Tribute: American Cinematheque Award - 1995
Hasty Pudding Theatricals: Man of the Year - 1997
Australian Film Institute: Global Achievement Award - 2002
Honorary Doctorate Recipient and Undergraduate Commencement Speaker, Loyola Marymount University - 2003
World's most powerful celebrity by US business magazine Forbes - 2004
Hollywood Reporter Innovator of the Year - 2004
Honorary fellowship in Performing Arts by Limkokwing University - 2007
Outstanding Contribution to World Cinema Award at the Irish Film and Television Awards - 2008                          

Mel Gibson is a Traditionalist Catholicism - Catholic teachings which prevailed in the Catholic Church before the Second Vatican Council - 1962–65.