Mel Gibson was born (January 3, 1956) in New York . He is an actor , film director, producer and screenwriter . His family moved to Australia when he was 12. He appeared in high school plays and loved acting, but went to work at an orange juice bottling company after graduating.He was accepted at the University of New South Wales. While studying drama, he played Romeo and Juliette . He appearing in the Mad Max , Lethal Weapon series , Braveheart . Mel Gibson was without doubt one of the biggest action heroes of the Eighties and Nineties