Biography of Jon Voight

Jon Voight is an American actor. He came to prominence in the late 1960s with his Oscar-nominated performance as Joe Buck. A would-be gigolo in Midnight Cowboy . During the 1970s, he became a Hollywood star with his portrayals of a businessman mixed up with murder in Deliverance . A paraplegic Vietnam veteran in Coming Home , for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor; and a penniless ex-boxing champion in the remake of The Champ . His output became sparse during the 1980s and early 1990s, although he won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance as the ruthless bank robber Oscar "Manny" Manheim in Runaway Train . Voight made a comeback in Hollywood during the mid-1990s, starring in Michael Mann's crime epic Heat opposite Robert De Niro and Al Pacino. He portrayed Jim Phelps in Mission: Impossible , a corrupt NSA agent in Enemy of the State , and the unscrupulous attorney Leo F. Drummond in Francis Ford Coppola's The Rainmaker , which earned him a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Voight gave critically acclaimed biographical performances during the 2000s, appearing as sportscaster Howard Cosell in Ali for which his supporting performance was nominated for the Academy Award, the Golden Globe Award and a Critics Choice Award, and also as Nazi officer JÃ¼rgen Stroop in Uprising , as Franklin D. Roosevelt in Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor and as Pope John Paul II in the eponymous miniseries . Voight also appears in Showtime's Ray Donovan TV series as Mickey Donovan, a role that brought him newfound critical and audience acclaim and his fourth Golden Globe win in 2014. He is the winner of one Academy Award, having been nominated for four. He has also won four Golden Globe Awards and has been nominated for eleven. On November 21, 2019, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts. He is the father of actress Angelina Jolie and actor James Haven.