After graduation, Voight moved to New York City, where he pursued an acting career. Following his graduation in 1956, he enrolled at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., where he majored in art and graduated with a B.A. Voight was raised as a Catholic and attended Archbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains, New York, where he first took an interest in acting, playing the comedic role of Count Pepi Le Loup in the school's annual musical, The Song of Norway. Kamp was his great-uncle through his mother. Voight's paternal grandfather and his paternal grandmother's parents were Slovak immigrants, while his maternal grandfather and his maternal grandmother's parents were German immigrants. He has two brothers, Barry Voight, a former volcanologist at Pennsylvania State University, and James Wesley Voight, known as Chip Taylor, a singer-songwriter who wrote " Wild Thing" and " Angel of the Morning".
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Jonathan Vincent Voight was born on December 29, 1938, in Yonkers, New York, to Barbara ( née Kamp) and Elmer Voight ( né Voytka), a professional golfer. He is the father of actress Angelina Jolie and actor James Haven. On November 21, 2019, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts. He has also won four Golden Globe Awards and has been nominated for eleven. Voight is the winner of one Academy Award, having been nominated for four.
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He also appeared as an antagonist on the thriller series 24 in its seventh season. Voight also appears in Showtime's television series Ray Donovan as Mickey Donovan, a role that brought him newfound critical and audience acclaim and his fourth Golden Globe win in 2014.
Roosevelt in Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor (2001) and as Pope John Paul II in the eponymous miniseries (2005). Voight gave critically acclaimed biographical performances during the 2000s, appearing as sportscaster Howard Cosell in Ali (2001) 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 Jürgen Stroop in Uprising (2001), as Franklin D. Drummond in Francis Ford Coppola's The Rainmaker (1997), which earned him a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He portrayed Jim Phelps in Mission: Impossible (1996), a corrupt NSA agent in Enemy of the State (1998), and the unscrupulous attorney Leo F. He made a comeback in Hollywood during the mid-1990s, starring alongside Sam Neill in the film The Rainbow Warrior (1993) about the French bombing of the eponymous ship in Auckland, and in Michael Mann's crime epic Heat (1995) opposite Robert De Niro and Al Pacino. Voight's 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 (1985). 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 remake of The Champ (1979). He came to prominence in the late 1960s with his Academy Award-nominated performance as Joe Buck, a would-be gigolo, in Midnight Cowboy (1969). Jonathan Vincent Voight ( / ˈ v ɔɪ t/ born December 29, 1938) is an American actor.
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