Jon Voight : Ask Biography

Voight in 2006

Personal information

Birth name

Jonathan Vincent Voight

Birth date

December 29, 1938(age 78)

Place of birth

Yonkers, New York, U.S.

Nationality

American

Education

Archbishop Stepinac High School

Alma mater

The Catholic University of America

Occupation

Actor

Years active

1958 � present

Political party

Republican

Religion

Catholic

Spouse

Lauri Peters (1962 � 1967; divorced)
Marcheline Bertrand (1971 � 1980; divorced)

Children

James Haven
Angelina Jolie

Parents

Barbara (kamp) Voight,
Elmer Voight

Relatives

Chip Taylor (brother)

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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 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 film of the same name (2005).