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• Jon Voight is an Academy Award winning American actor who shot to fame after his performance in the 1969 Oscar winner for best picture, Midnight Cowboy. Voight earned an Oscar nomination for his portrayal as Joe Buck, an eccentric Texas gigolo in New York City. Voight soon went on to star in such notable films as: Deliverance, Coming Home and Heat.

  Voight was the host of a Republican fundraiser in June 2009. He was critical of the Obama administration, voicing his "embarrassment" of the U.S. leader, and said that Obama would be the "downfall" of the U.S. He went on to claim that Obama is a "false prophet", and the country is becoming "a weak nation."Huffington Post: ...GOP Fundraiser...

• Fast Facts

  1. Born: December 29, 1938
  2. Birthplace: Yonkers, New York
  3. Full name: Jonathan Vincent Voight
  4. Spouses: Lauri Peters and Marcheline Bertrand
  5. 1978: Won an Oscar for Coming Home
  6. Father of Angelina Jolie
  7. Voight's father, Elmer Voytka, was a professional golfer
  8. Turned down the role of "Matt Hooper" in Jaws
  9. Breakthrough film: Midnight Cowboy
  10. Brother Barry Voight was a Geology professor at Penn State University

• Brief Biography

  Jon Voight was born in Yonkers, New York and studied art at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.. His first major role was in the 1969 John Schlesinger film, Midnight Cowboy. He soon became one of the acclaimed leading actors of the 1970s. He received an Oscar nearly ten years after his portrayal as Joe Buck, in the 1978 film, Coming Home. In recent years Voight has played character roles in such films as: Paul Sarone in Anaconda and Howard Cosell in Ali.

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