Juliet van Otteren's first passion were dance and riding her horses bareback across the countryside.
1 portrait in the collection
Gift of Mr and Mrs Wilbur van Otteren 2002
Fruitful fusion
Baz Luhrmann (b. 1962), film director, aspired to be an actor, appearing in Winter of Our Dreams (1981) and studying acting at NIDA before turning to directing.
2 portraits in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2007
Mel Gibson (b. 1956), actor, was born in New York state, the sixth of eleven children of a railroad brakeman and an Australian opera singer.
1 portrait in the collection
Gift of the artist 2006