Jon Voight

Actor, Film actor

1938 –

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Who is Jon Voight?

Jonathan Vincent "Jon" Voight is an American actor. He has won one Academy Award, out of four nominations, and four Golden Globe Awards, out of ten nominations. Voight is the father of actress Angelina Jolie and actor James Haven.

Voight came to prominence in the late 1960s with his performance as a would-be gigolo in Midnight Cowboy. During the 1970s, he became a Hollywood star with his portrayals of a businessman mixed up with murder in Deliverance, a paraplegic Vietnam veteran in Coming Home, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor, and a penniless ex-boxing champion in The Champ.

Although his output slowed during the 1980s, Voight received critical acclaim for his performance as a ruthless bank robber in Runaway Train. During the 1990s, he most notably starred as an unscrupulous showman attorney in The Rainmaker. Voight gave critically acclaimed biographical performances during the 2000s, appearing as sportscaster Howard Cosell in Ali, as Nazi officer Jürgen Stroop in Uprising, and as Pope John Paul II in the self-titled miniseries.

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Born
Dec 29, 1938
Yonkers
Also known as
  • John Voight
  • Jonathan Vincent Voight
  • Jonathan Vincent "Jon" Voight
Parents
Siblings
Spouses
Children
Religion
  • Catholicism
Ethnicity
  • Slovak American
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • The Catholic University of America
  • Archbishop Stepinac High School
Lived in
  • Yonkers

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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