
Jon Voight
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Biography
Jonathan Vincent "Jon" Voight 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

24

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

E! True Hollywood Story

Golden Globe Awards

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

The Defenders

Honest Trailers

The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn

Cimarron Strip

Wogan

Seinfeld

The Oscars

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

Tropic Thunder

Catch-22

Transformers

Bratz

Ray Donovan

Ray Donovan: The Movie

Zoolander

The Manchurian Candidate

Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

Megalopolis

Four Christmases

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Pearl Harbor

National Treasure

National Treasure: Book of Secrets

Holes

Heat

Same Kind of Different as Me

The Rainmaker

Mercy

Varsity Blues

Glory Road

Getaway

Anaconda

High Ground

Jasper, Texas

The Tin Soldier

Britney Spears: Live from Las Vegas

Strangers

Mission: Impossible

The Painter

Deliverance

Return to Lonesome Dove

Noah's Ark

Shadow Land

Man with No Past

Eternity

Midnight Cowboy

Pope John Paul II
Production Credits
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