Editing Mel Gibson (section)

== Early life and education==
Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson<ref>{{Cite book|last=McDannell|first=Colleen|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=329d609gs1wC&q=%22Mel+Columcille+Gerard+Gibson%22&pg=PA327|title=Catholics in the Movies|date=2008|publisher=Oxford University Press, USA|isbn=978-0-19-530656-9}}</ref> was born in [[Peekskill, New York]],<ref name=rte2008/> on January 3, 1956<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2019/01/03/UPI-Almanac-for-Thursday-Jan-3-2019/1811546209344/|title= UPI Almanac for Thursday, Jan. 3, 2019|work=[[United Press International]]|date=January 3, 2019|access-date=September 3, 2019|archive-date=January 3, 2019 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190103223323/https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2019/01/03/UPI-Almanac-for-Thursday-Jan-3-2019/1811546209344/|url-status=live|quote=actor/director Mel Gibson in 1956 (age 63)}}</ref> into a family of [[Irish Americans|Irish American]] descent, as the sixth of 11 children, and the second son of [[Hutton Gibson]], a writer, and Irish-born Anne Patricia (née Reilly, died 1990).<ref name=rte2008>{{cite news |url=http://www.rte.ie/arts/2008/0208/gibsonm.html |title=Mel Gibson to be honoured at IFTA ceremony&nbsp;– RTÉ Ten |publisher=Raidió Teilifís Éireann |access-date=July 12, 2010 |date=February 8, 2008 |archive-date=July 27, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090727121854/http://www.rte.ie/arts/2008/0208/gibsonm.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Lawrence Donegan |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2004/feb/29/religion.world |title=Observer profile |work=The Guardian |location=UK |date= February 29, 2004|access-date=July 12, 2010 }}</ref> Gibson's paternal grandmother was opera contralto [[Eva Mylott]] (1875–1920), who was born in Australia to Irish parents,<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_A73Xj1u0X4C&q=%22The+Gibson+family+connection.%22 |title=Mel Gibson – John Hanrahan – Google Books |access-date=March 19, 2014|isbn=9780949773340 |year=1986 |last1=Hanrahan |first1=John |publisher=Little Hills Press }}</ref> while his paternal grandfather, John Hutton Gibson, was a millionaire tobacco businessman from the [[Southern United States]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=erBp3iuFmCwC&q=%22Eva%20Mylott%20moved%20to%20America%20shortly%20before%20World%20War%20I%20and%20not%20long%20after%22|title=The Films of Mel Gibson|first=John|last=McCarty|date=January 1, 1997|publisher=Carol Publishing Group|isbn=9780806519180|access-date=November 27, 2016|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7PFll5i1yNEC&q=%22Little%20wonder%20that%20Mel%20Gibson%20found%20his%20calling%20in%20Hollywood's%20movie%20industry%22|title=Mel Gibson: Man on a Mission|first=Wensley|last=Clarkson|author-link=Wensley Clarkson|date=September 1, 2005|publisher=John Blake|isbn=9781857825770|access-date=November 27, 2016|via=Google Books}}</ref> One of Gibson's younger brothers, [[Donal Gibson|Donal]], is also an actor. Gibson's first name is derived from [[St Mel's Cathedral]], situated in his mother's hometown of [[Longford]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rte.ie/archives/2018/0320/948804-tea-with-mel-gibson/|title= Tea With Mel Gibson|website=RTÉ Archives|date=March 23, 1993|access-date=March 28, 2020}}</ref> His second name, [[Columba|Colmcille]],<ref name="filed"/> is also shared with an Irish saint.<ref>Michael Dwyer, ''[[The Irish Times]]'' film critic, interviewed on [[RTÉ Radio 1]]'s ''This week'' programme, August 6, 2006.</ref> 

Gibson's father was awarded US$145,000 in a work-related-injury lawsuit against the [[New York Central Railroad]] on February 14, 1968 ({{Inflation|US|145000|1968|fmt=eq}}), and soon afterwards relocated his family to [[West Pymble]], Sydney, Australia.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Mel Gibson: Living Dangerously|first=Wensley|last=Clarkson|author-link=Wensley Clarkson|publisher=Thunder's Mouth Press|location=New York|year=1993|page=30}}</ref> Gibson was 12 years old at the time. The move to his grandmother's native Australia was both financial  and a way to avoid the [[Conscription in Australia#Vietnam War|draft]] of his eldest son during the [[Vietnam War]].<ref name="Grossman">{{cite news |last1=Grossman |first1=Wendy |author1-link=Wendy M. Grossman |title=Is the Pope Catholic? |url=http://www.dallasobserver.com/2003-07-31/news/is-the-pope-catholic/ |access-date=April 7, 2023 |newspaper=[[Dallas Observer]] |date=July 31, 2003 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131108142450/http://www.dallasobserver.com/2003-07-31/news/is-the-pope-catholic/full/ |archive-date=2013-11-08}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

During his high school years, Gibson was educated by members of the [[Congregation of Christian Brothers]] at [[St Leo's Catholic College]] in [[Wahroonga]], [[New South Wales]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/2006/08/08/mel-gibson-biographyfilmography/ |title=Mel Gibson's Biography/Filmography&nbsp;– Celebrity Gossip, Entertainment News, Arts And Entertainment |publisher=Fox News Channel |date=August 8, 2006 |access-date=July 13, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140320085700/http://www.foxnews.com/story/2006/08/08/mel-gibson-biographyfilmography/ |archive-date=March 20, 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/03/01/1078117354823.html |title=A son's dangerous passion, in the name of the father&nbsp;– OpinionGerardHenderson |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=March 2, 2004 |access-date=July 13, 2010}}</ref>