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Michael Peña Net Worth and Salary: Michael Pena is an American actor who has a net worth of $12 million dollars. Peña is best known for his various roles in major motion pictures, including “Crash,” “American Hustle,” “Fury,” the “Ant-Man” franchise, and countless others. He is also known for his work on a number of television series, including “Cesar Chavez,” in which he played the title role. Michael also appeared quite heavily in the Netflix series “Narcos: Mexico.” Peña is considered a “character actor.”Early Life: Michael Anthony Peña was born on January 13th of 1976 in Chicago, Illinois. Raised by working-class parents, Peña grew up in a family of Mexican immigrants, and his parents had originally worked as farmers in their home nation. Michael grew up primarily in the North Lawndale area, where he attended high school.Career: Peña has been pursuing an acting career since 1994. His first roles in independent films came when he was still a teenager. That being said, it would take Michael ten more years until he finally broke through into the mainstream with films like “Million Dollar Baby” in 2004. This film won an Oscar for Best Picture, and it helped put Peña on the map. Also in 2004, Michael starred in the critically-acclaimed film “Crash.” It was this second film that truly helped Peña book more substantial roles in major films throughout the next few years.After “Crash,” Michael switched gears and booked a recurring role in the TV series “The Sheild.” The series won a Golden Globe, and Peña followed up by appearing in the film “World Trade Center.” That year, Michael booked a smaller role in “Babel,” continuing his streak of appearing in Oscar-nominated movies. In 2006, Peña moved back to television work once again, appearing in the HBO movie “Walkout.”Next year, Michael joined Mark Wahlberg in the film “Shooter.” Two years later, Peña ventured into comedic work with the film “Observe and Report.” In 2012, he joined the cast of “End of Watch,” playing a central role alongside Jake Gyllenhaal. The film revolved around two LA police officers played by Peña and Gyllenhaal. That year proved to be quite busy for Michael, as he also played the central role in “Cesar Chavez,” a film about an American labor leader. In 2014, he joined a star-studded cast alongside Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, and Jon Bernthal in the WWII film “Fury.”In 2015, Michael Peña made his first appearance in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, playing the role of Luis in “Ant-Man.” He would later reprise this role in the sequel “Ant-Man and the Wasp.” Also in 2015, Peña appeared in “The Martian.” Over the next few years, he starred in films like “12 Strong,” “A Wrinkle in Time,” “Collateral Beauty,” “CHiPs,” and “Fantasy Island.” During this period, Peña also joined the cast of “Narcos,” which led to his subsequent appearance in “Narcos: Mexico.”Michael is also an experienced voice actor, having booked roles in animated series like “Chozen,” “American Dad,” and “Turbo.” He is probably best known for his voice acting role in “My Little Pony: The Movie,” in which he played Grubber.Relationships: In 2006, Peña married Brie Shaffer. They welcomed their son into the world in 2008.Scientology: Michael Peña has been a member of the Church of Scientology since the year 2000. In one interview he claimed that Scientology had made him a better actor.Music: Michael is also passionate about music, and in 2005 he started his own rock band called Nico Vega. However, he left the band two years later to focus on his acting career. He still occasionally writes songs for the band.

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Mel Gibson net worth: Mel Gibson is an Australian/American actor, screenwriter, director, producer and investor who has a net worth of $425 million. A sometimes controversial personality, Mel has also been one of the most successful actors and directors in the world during his career.Early LifeMel Colmcille Gerard Gibson was born in Peekskill, New York on January 3, 1956.  and moved with his family to Australia at the age of twelve. The sixth of eleven children, he is the son of writer Hutton Gibson and Anne Patricia, who died in 1990. When Mel was 12 years old, the family moved to his grandmother’s native country, Australia, for various economic reasons. Gibson was educated by the Christian Brothers and attended the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney, working on stage before transitioning into the Australian film scene.Acting CareerGibson’s first major roles were in the Mad Max series, which he immediately began working on straight after graduating college in 1977. Mel earned his first $1 million paycheck in 1985 from Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, the third installment in the franchise. All the while, Gibson was still working as a stage actor and appearing in several plays with the State Theatre Company of South Australia in Adelaide. He appeared on stage in many well-known works such as Waiting for Godot and Death of a Salesman.Mel starred in his first American film, The River, in 1984, playing a struggling Tennessee farmer opposite Sissy Spacek.  In 1985, he took two years off of acting before returning to play the role of Martin Riggs in 1987’s Lethal Weapon, followed by Tequila Sunrise in 1988 and Lethal Weapon 2 (1989.) He spent the first half of the 90s starring in blockbuster action hits Maverick, Braveheart, Ransom, and Payback, just to name a few. The early 2000s saw Gibson starring in films that each grossed over $100 million at the box office: The Patriot, Chicken Run, and What Women Want. He starred in M. Night Shyamalan’s Signs, which was wildly successful and the highest-grossing film of his career.Some of his other notable film roles include starring parts in the other four installments of the Mad Max series,  2004’s The Passion of the Christ, Apocalypto, We Were Soldiers, Edge of Darkness, The Beaver, and The Expendables 3.Director and ProducerGibson began to move into producing and directing in 1989 when he formed Icon Productions and made his first film, Hamlet. He made his directorial debut in 1993’s The Man Without a Face. He went on to film Braveheart two years later, which earned him an Oscar for Best Director.  In 2004, Gibson wrote, directed, and funded the controversial film The Passion of the Christ. It became the highest-grossing film with an R rating of all the time, earning over $370 million at the U.S. box office. He also directed the movie Hacksaw Ridge in 2016 which received 14 award nominations including an Academy Award for Best Achievement in Directing and a Golden Globe for Best Director – Motion Picture. Gibson won six awards for the film including a Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Director and a Hollywood Film Award for Director of the Year. Throughout his career, Gibson has also directed and produced various television projects as well.Mel Gibson Salary HighlightsSigns$25,000,000We Were Soldiers$25,000,000The Patriot$25,000,000Chicken Run$1,550,000Lethal Weapon 4$25,000,000Conspiracy Theory$20,000,000Ransom$20,000,000Maverick$15,000,000Lethal Weapon 3$10,000,000Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome$1,200,000The River$500,000Attack Force Z$918/weekGallipoli$32,147Mad Max$15,000Summer City$400Total$168,298,465Passion of the Christ EarningsMel spent years trying to get funding for his passion project, “Passion of the Christ”. Eventually a frustrated Mel decided to invest $30 million of his own money to finance the project. He also chipped in an additional $15 million for marketing, bringing his total investment to $45 million.Mel owned 50% of the film’s profits. The other 50% went the distributor Newmarket Films. After the movie’s revenues were all totaled, Mel’s personal cut was $300 million.But that’s not all. Passion was also a merchandise juggernaut. Merchandise brought Mel another $50-$100 million. Finally, there’s DVD sales, which were close to their general peak back in 2004. Mel took home a cool $75 million from DVD sales.When you add it all together, Mel Gibson earned somewhere in the range of $400 – $475 million off Passion Of The Christ.Investments and Real EstateGibson has invested in multiple properties in Malibu, Costa Rica, Fiji, and throughout Australia. He sold his Kiewa Valley farm for $6 million in December 2004. Later that same month, he bought his own private island, Mago Island in Fiji, for $15 million. In April 2007, Gibson bought a 400-acre ranch in Costa Rica for the hefty sum of $26 million. He has tried to sell this mansion at various points for as much as $35 million. He also owned a Tudor-style estate in Connecticut which he sold in July 2007 for $40 million (he originally bought it in 1994 for $9 million.)In 2008 Mel paid $11.5 million for a 5.5-acre home in Malibu. The sellers were then-married couple David Duchovny and Tea Leoni. Mel listed this home for sale at one point for $17.5 million. He listed it again in Marc 2019 for $14.5 million.Personal LifeGibson married Robin Moore in 1980 and the couple had seven children before divorcing in 2011. The settlement with his ex-wife was over $400 million. Gibson has a daughter with his former girlfriend, Russian musician Oksana Grigorieva. His ninth child was born in 2017 to girlfriend Rosalind Ross.Controversies and Legal IssuesOksana Grigorieva filed a restraining order against Gibson in 2010 in an attempt to keep him away from their child. Gibson, in turn, filed a restraining order against her. She accused him of domestic violence and Gibson was investigated by the LA County police. In July 2010, an audio recording of a violent and racist rant in a phone call from Gibson to Grigorieva was leaked onto the internet. Mel Gibson entered a plea of no contest to a misdemeanor battery charge and settled with Grigorieva, who was awarded $750,000 and their house in Sherman Oaks, California for damages.Gibson has had his fair share of anti-Semitic hate speech incidents as well as anti-LGBTQ sentiments. His controversial statements over the years resulted in being blacklisted by many producers, directors, agencies, and fellow actors in the Hollywood film scene for nearly a decade. It wasn’t until he released Hacksaw Ridge that the Hollywood community began to warm to him again.Gibson has addressed his alcohol addiction and recovery in many interviews. In 1984, he rear-ended a car in Toronto while drunk and was banned from driving in Canada for three months. He was arrested on July 28, 2006 for a DUI while speeding in his car with an open container of alcohol. He pled no contest and was sentenced to three years of probation.PhilanthropyGibson has donated millions of dollars to Healing the Children, a charity that provides life-saving medical treatment to underserved children around the world. In 2007, on a business trip to Singapore, he donated massive amounts to a local charity for kids with terminal illnesses. He has also supported causes in the arts, such as the restoration of Renaissance paintings. Gibson has given millions of dollars to the National Institute of Drug Abuse as well. He donated $500,000 to the El Mirador Basin project which aims to protect the last of the virgin rainforest in Central America. Additionally, he visited Central America in July 2007 to meet with the president of Costa Rica and make donations to the indigenous population. That same year, he gave financial assistance to Green Rubber Global to build a tire recycling factory in Gallup, New Mexico.AccoladesMel Gibson has won two Academy Awards for best director and best picture, both for Braveheart. He also won a Golden Globe for best director for Braveheart. He’s been nominated for a BAFTA and several other awards.

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