Jon voight bio

Voight was also nominated for an Academy Award for his work in 's Runaway Train. After appearing in the drama Heat , the veteran actor once again began to star in big budget offerings. In recent years, he has enjoyed a resurgence as a sought-after character actor, winning a Golden Globe in for his work on the TV drama Ray Donovan. The son of a Czechoslovakian-American golf pro, Jon Voight discovered his love for acting as a teenager.

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Following a stint on Broadway, he appeared in his first film, Fearless Frank , in It was Voight's role as country boy-turned-hustler Joe Buck in the groundbreaking film Midnight Cowboy that earned him an Oscar nomination and launched his career into the big time. For the next two decades, Voight's film career was a mix of incredible highs and forgettable misses.

His many memorable projects from this period include 's Deliverance and 's Coming Home, for which he won a Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of a quadriplegic Vietnam War veteran opposite Jane Fonda. In , he ended a five-year dry spell with an Academy Award nod for his performance in Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's thriller Runaway Train. A "spiritual reawakening" then led Voight to work on a number of intellectually related and doomed film projects.

In , he delivered well-received performances as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Pearl Harbor and as the patriarch in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider , a film that starred his estranged daughter, actress Angelina Jolie. That year he also brilliantly channeled sportscaster Howard Cosell in the biopic Ali , capturing his fourth Oscar nomination.

In recent years, Voight has enjoyed a resurgence as one of Hollywood's most sought-after character actors.

Jon voight movies

He also found great success with the sleeper hit Holes and Jonathan Demme's remake of The Manchurian Candidate. In recent years, Voight has enjoyed great success on the small screen. He appeared on season seven of the hit action drama 24 and then landed one of his most significant roles in years. Liev Schrieber plays his son, the title character, who works with celebrities to make their problems go away by any means necessary.