Jon Voight
Gender: Male
Born: 29th December 1938 (currently 73 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: Pope John Paul II, NET Playhouse, Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story, Lone Star, Biography, Return to Lonesome Dove
Movies: Ali, Anaconda, Coming Home, Deliverance, Enemy of the State, Glory Road, Holes, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Midnight Cowboy, Mission: Impossible, National Treasure, Pearl Harbor, Pope John Paul II, Rosewood, SuperBabies: Baby Geniuses 2, The Legend of Simon Conjurer, The Manchurian Candidate, The Rainmaker, National Treasure: Book of Secrets, Transformers, Pride and Glory, The Karate Dog, SuperBabies: Baby Geniuses 2, The Odessa File, Varsity Blues, September Dawn, The Champ, Catch-22, Heat, The General, Bratz: The Movie, Runaway Train, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Most Wanted, The Last of His Tribe, Desert Bloom, Table for Five, Zoolander, Noah's Ark, Conrack, Jasper, Texas, Hour of the Gun, Four Christmases, Fearless Frank, An American Carol, U Turn, Uprising, The Rainbow Warrior, A Dog of Flanders, Second String, Lookin' to Get Out, The Fixer, Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story, Convict Cowboy, The Revolutionary, Chernobyl: The Final Warning, Beyond, 24: Redemption, End of the Game, Eternity, Out of It, The All-American Boy, Most Wanted, The Prince and the Surfer, Tropic Thunder, Pablo
Jonathan Vincent "Jon" Voight (/vɔɪt/) (born December 29, 1938) is an American actor. He has won one Academy Award, out of four nominations, and three Golden Globe Awards, out of nine nominations. Voight is the father of actress Angelina Jolie.
Voight came to prominence in the late 1960s with his performance as a would-be gigolo in Midnight Cowboy (1969). During the 1970s, he became a Hollywood star with his portrayals of a businessman mixed up with murder in Deliverance (1972), a paraplegic Vietnam veteran in Coming Home (1978), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor, and a penniless ex-boxing champion in The Champ (1979).
Although his output slowed during the 1980s, Voight received critical acclaim for his performance as a ruthless bank robber in Runaway Train (1985). During the 1990s, he most notably starred as an unscrupulous showman attorney in The Rainmaker (1997). Voight gave critically acclaimed biographical performances during the 2000s, appearing as sportscaster Howard Cosell in Ali (2001), as Nazi officer Jürgen Stroop in Uprising (2001), and as Pope John Paul II in the television miniseries of the same name (2005).
Voight was born in Yonkers, New York, the son
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