
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).
Voight is the father of actress Angelina Jolie.

Heat
1995 · as Nate

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
2016 · as Henry Shaw Sr.

Pearl Harbor
2001 · as President Roosevelt

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
2001 · as Lord Richard Croft

Enemy of the State
1998 · as Reynolds

National Treasure: Book of Secrets
2007 · as Patrick Gates

National Treasure
2004 · as Patrick Gates

Mission: Impossible
1996 · as Jim Phelps

Tropic Thunder
2008 · as Jon Voight

Anaconda
1997 · as Paul Serone

Ray Donovan: The Movie
2022 · as Mickey Donovan

Holes
2003 · as Marion Sevillo "Mr. Sir"

Transformers
2007 · as Defense Secretary John Keller

Midnight Cowboy
1969 · as Joe Buck

Zoolander
2001 · as Larry Zoolander

Deliverance
1972 · as Ed Gentry

Reagan
2024 · as Viktor Petrovich

The Rainmaker
1997 · as Leo F. Drummond