1. Fighting for the woman he loves and then for his countrymen in the epic movie Braveheart (1995).

2. Playing Martin Riggs in the Lethal Weapon movies. If you like your men to be a little on the wild side then look no further.

3. As Nick Marshall, the man who can hear women's thoughts, in the movie What Women Want (2000).

1. The success of his self funded movie The Passion of The Christ, earned Mel an estimated in $210,000,000 in 2004. He speculated and boy did he accumulate.

2. He was roommates with the actor Geoffrey Rush in college. You may have seen him in the movies Intolerable Cruelty (2003) and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003).

3. Mel was offered the role of Eliot Ness in The Untouchables (1987), but turned it down. Kevin Costner stepped in and the movie was a huge success.