Mel Gibson is an actor/director that rose to fame as the star of action films such as Mad Max and Lethal Weapon. He won the Oscar for Best Director in 1995 for the historical biopic Braveheart, which also took that year's award for Best Picture. On The Tonight Show in late May of 2009, Gibson confirmed that his girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva is pregnant with his child.http://www.tmz.com/2009/05/26/mel-gibson-yep-shes-knocked-up/ He also took the blame for his marriage to Robyn Moore ending, stating "I did a pretty good hatchet job on my marriage myself. I'm to blame."http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20280985,00.html?cnn=yes

In 2011, Gibson played the lead role in the movie The Beaver. Gibson starred alongside actress and director of the film Jodie Foster.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1321860/

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On July 9, 2010 a recorded phone call surfaced of Mel Gibson using racial slurs and verbally abusing Oksana Grigorieva, the mother of his child.

Offensive quotes from phone conversation:http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2010/07/world-exclusive-audio-mel-gibsons-explosive-racist-rant-listen-it-here

• "You're an embarrassment to me. You look like a f***ing bitch in heat, and if you get raped by a pack of n***ers, it will be your fault."

Gibson also claimed that Grigorieva had fake breasts and then said the following:

• "They look ridiculous. Get rid of them why don’t you."

• "Keep them if you want, they look stupid. Keep ‘em if you want. Look stupid. See if I give a f*ck. They look like a Vegas whore. And you go around sashaying in your tight clothes. I won’t stand for that anymore."

On July 8, Grigorieva had accused Gibson of domestic violence, which has been under review by the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department. The alleged attack took place on January 6, 2010. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100708/ap_on_en_mo/us_people_mel_gibson

After graduating Syndey, Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1977, Gibson landed a few roles on some Australian TV series. Early collaborations with Aussie directors George Miller (the Mad Max films) and Peter Weir (Gallipoli, The Year of Living Dangerously) made him an international film star by the early '1980s.c

Though many of his high-profile appearances were in action films, including the hit Lethal Weapon series, Gibson has worked in a variety of genres, even playing Hamlet in Franco Zeffirelli's 1990 adaptation of Shakespeare's play. As his directorial career has taken off, he has started acting less. His last starring role was in M. Night Shyamalan's 2002 extraterrestrial thriller Signs.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000154/bio

Robyn Gibson filed for a divorce from Gibson in April of 2009 citing irreconcilable differences. The couple married in 1980 and have seven children together, of which one, Tom, is a minor. She is seeking joint physical and legal custody of Tom. The couple were said to have had no prenuptial agreement in place and Robyn should therefore be granted half of the couple's community property.http://www.tmz.com/2009/04/13/mel-gibson-divorce/

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• 1979: Mad Max

• 1987: Lethal Weapon

• 1994: Maverick

• 1995: Won "Best Picture" and "Best Director" Oscars for Braveheart

• 2000: The Patriot

• 2002: Signs

• 2004: The Passion of the Christ

• 2006: Apocalypto

• 2008: Sam and Georgehttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000154/

• "I like directing much better. It's more fun, that's all there is to it. It's essentially the same job, which is storytelling, but you have more control over the way you want to tell the story. It's a high. I love it."http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000154/bio#quotes
• "There is no salvation for those outside the Church...I believe it. Put it this way. My wife is a saint. She's a much better person than I am. Honestly. She's like, Episcopalian, Church of England. She prays, she believes in God, she knows Jesus, she believes in that stuff. And it's just not fair if she doesn't make it, she's better than I am. But that is a pronouncement from the chair. I go with it."http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000154/bio#quotes
• "It's not meant to. I think it's meant to just tell the truth. I want to be as truthful as possible. But when you look at the reasons Christ came, he was crucified - he died for all mankind and he suffered for all mankind. So that, really, anyone who transgresses has to look at their own part or look at their own culpability."http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000154/bio#quotes