What is Jon Voight?
{{Infobox person | name = | image = Jon Voight 2011.jpg | caption = Jon Voight in Los Angeles in October 2011 | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1938|12|29}} | birth_place = [[Yonkers, New York]], [[United States|U.S.]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Jon Voight bio |work=[[The New York Times]] online |access-date=June 10, 2009 |url=http://movies.nytimes.com/person/115561/Jon-Voight/biography}}</ref> | birthname = Jonathan Vincent Voight | occupation = Actor | yearsactive = 1963–present | party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] | spouse = [[Lauri Peters]]<br>(m. 1962–1967, [[divorce]]d)<br>[[Marcheline Bertrand]]<br>(m. 1971–1978, divorced) | children = [[James Haven]]<br>[[Angelina Jolie]] | relatives = [[Barry Voight]], [[Chip Taylor]] (brothers) }} '''Jon Voight''' (born December 29, 1938) is an [[Americans|American]] [[actor]]. Voight came to publicity in the late 1960s with his [[Academy Award]]–nominated performance as Joe Buck, a would-be [[gigolo]], in [[Midnight Cowboy]] (1969). He has received an [[Academy Award for Best Actor]], having received it for his role in the 1978 film [[Coming Home (1978)|Coming Home]], in which he played a [[Paraplegia|paraplegic]] [[Vietnam War]] veteran. In the 1970s, he became renowned as a [[Hollywood|Hollywood star]]. Voight is a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] who supports [[anti-communism]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|title=VOIGHT: My concerns for America|url=https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/jul/28/voight/|access-date=2023-06-22|website=The Washington Times|language=en-US}}</ref> ==Early life and family== His mother was of [[Germany|German]] [[ancestry]]; his father was of [[Slovaks|Slovak]] ancestry. Voight is the middle of three brothers: [[volcanologist]] [[Barry Voight]] was born in 1937; musician [[Chip Taylor]] was born in 1940. Voight's son [[James Haven]] and daughter [[Angelina Jolie]] are actors. ==R