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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).

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).

Filmography

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Interesting facts

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    He studied at the Catholic University of Washington in the Faculty of Fine Arts, graduating in 1960, and then enrolled at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York.

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    Turned down the role of Quint in Jaws (1975).

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    Full name is Jonathan Vincent Voight; he is Angelina Jolie's father.

Family & relationships

James Haven husband
Marcheline Bertrand wife · Children: 2 · divorced
Lauri Peters wife · divorced
Vivienne Jolie-Pitt wife
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