Jon Voight
Actor
- Born
- December 29, 1938 (age 87) · Yonkers, New York, USA
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).
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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
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
November 16, 2016
Transformers
June 27, 2007
Mission: Impossible
May 22, 1996
Heat
December 15, 1995
Tropic Thunder
August 9, 2008
Pearl Harbor
May 21, 2001
National Treasure
November 19, 2004
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
June 15, 2001
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
December 19, 2007
Zoolander
September 28, 2001
Enemy of the State
November 20, 1998
Anaconda
April 11, 1997
Acting128
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