
Jon Voight
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Biography
Jonathan Vincent "Jon" Voight (born December 29, 1938) is an American actor. He has received an Academy Award (out of four nominations) and three Golden Globe Awards (out of nine).
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 film of the same name (2005).
Voight is the father of actress Angelina Jolie.
Known For

Gunsmoke

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

24

The Oscars

Golden Globe Awards

E! True Hollywood Story

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

The Defenders

Honest Trailers

The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn

Cimarron Strip

Seinfeld

Tropic Thunder

Transformers

Catch-22

Bratz

Ray Donovan: The Movie

Ray Donovan

Zoolander

The Manchurian Candidate

Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story

Four Christmases

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

Megalopolis

Pearl Harbor

National Treasure

National Treasure: Book of Secrets

The Rainmaker

Mercy

Holes

Same Kind of Different as Me

Heat

Anaconda

Varsity Blues

Getaway

Glory Road

Mission: Impossible

The Tin Soldier

The Painter

Jasper, Texas

High Ground

Britney Spears: Live from Las Vegas

Strangers

Deliverance

Eternity

Pope John Paul II

Noah's Ark

Midnight Cowboy

Pope John Paul II

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