Jon Voight Wiki: Movie, Net Worth, 'National Treasure' & Facts To Know

Jonathan Vincent Voight or Jon Voight is an Academy Award-winning American movie star. He ventured into theater and then television. Voight also does screenwriting and movie production. Voight has also made a political mark in the United States and is known to be affiliated with President Donald Trump. He uses the social media to echo his political views and is usually a resourceful personality. Jon Voight is a success on screen and on television.

Jonathan Vincent Voight was born on 29 December 1938 in Yonkers, New York. Voight went to a Catholic high school called Archbishop Stepinac High School where he graduated in 1956. This is the period where he built an interest in performing arts as he participated in school musical events. Jon Voight then graduated from the Catholic University of America, Washington DC with a B.A. major in arts. Afterward, Voight moved to New York in pursuit of a career in acting. Voight is the proud father of the megastar Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie and her brother, James Haven.

Jon Voight came on to the acting scene in the 1960s. His debut film was Broadway’s Sound of Music of 1961 where Voight acted as the teen, Rolf Gruber. In 1963 through to 1968, television performance became Voight’s area of interest. Voight made guest appearances in episodes of Gunsmoke, Naked City, The Defenders and Twelve O’clock High. Voight also took on theatre appearing in A View from the Bridge where he played Rodolfo. Afterward, Voight featured as the main star on the movie, Fearless Frank in 1967. Voight’s other recognized performance was Hour of The Gun in 1967 where he acts as Curly Bill Brosius. Voight began to be popular as he featured in more advanced movies like Revolutionary in 1970 and Out of It in 1969 among several others. Still, in the year 1969, Voight again worked with the Director of Sound of Music, Dustin Hoffman, performing as a would-be gigolo in the film Midnight Cowboy. Voight, who portrayed hustler Joe Buck was the main star in the Oscar-winning film. In the film, the gigolo Voight makes a new friend called Enrico Salvator, nicknamed Ratso Rizzo. Ratso was played by star-Director, Dustin Hoffman himself. The two face the challenges of life together and create an interesting backdrop of a New York lifestyle. Midnight Cowboy is adapted from a novel written by James Leo Herlihy while the film version was written by Waldo Salt and directed by John Schlesinger. It won three Academy Awards and it was noted to be the first to exhibit a gay relationship in the filming industry. Both Voight and Hoffman were nominated for Best Actor Award. In the 70s, Voight featured in several films including Deliverance in 1972 where Voight starred alongside Burt Reynolds. Voight played the role of Stanley Kowalski in a play called A Streetcar Named Desire between 1973 and 1974. The film Conrack is adapted from the novel entitled The Water is Wide. Here Voight portrays a young schoolteacher. Within the same year, Voight also featured in a film called The Odessa File.

In the 90s, Jon Voight’s television acting career kicked off to greater heights when he appeared in the movie Chernobyl: The Final Warning of 1991, The Last of His Tribe in 1992, and The Rainbow Warrior of 1992 among others. Not to mention that 1996 he shared the screen with star Tom Cruise in action film Mission Impossible. Voight also took part in the crime film Heat, which is a captivating film that became a great success. It was released in 1995 under the directorship of Michael Man. Jon Voight is featured as Nate alongside De Niro who starred as a thief, Al Pacino, and Val Kilmer. Voight, who was by then 56 years old, played a supporting role of a fence to McCauley in the Heat film. In the succeeding years 2000 and onwards, Jon Voight enthusiastically continues with his acting career. He features as the main star in the film Pearl Harbor acting the role of the renowned President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Voight continued to feature in great movies such as Jasper-Texas, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Karate Dog, Redemption, and Lone Star. In 2014, Jon Voight again stepped into a more action based adventure film, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider where he appeared as the father to Lara Croft, i.e. Lord Croft. Angelina Jolie plays the main star, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. Angelina Jolie, a famous renowned actor who has made a big name for herself and climbed the charts earning herself several awards and an amazing net worth is Jon Voight’s real daughter. Jon Voight has also starred along with several others including Nicolas Cage, Harvey Keitel, and Sean Bean among others in the American movie National Treasure: Book of Secrets. The crime investigative movie, National Treasure was released in 2004 by Walt Disney Pictures and was a box office success. In this adventure film, Jon Voight stars as Patrick Henry Gates playing an investigation role in finding a secret treasure. Voight made an appearance in 2013 as Mickey Donovan on Showtime’s TV series, Ray Donovan. This role brought in the fame for him. Voight acted as a charming but overwhelmingly distraught father to Ray Donovan who totally complicated Donovan’s life from the moment he came.

Jon Voight has made an estimated net worth of a whopping $45 million by the year 2018. This includes all his properties and luxury assets. He earns a salary of 17 million and owns a home in Los Angeles, California. Voight’s appearances in big buck movies such as Mission Impossible in 1996, Enemy of State in 1998 and Pearl Harbor of 2001 made a significant net worth increment. Notably, the movie Lara Croft: Tomb Raider of 2001 was where Voight attracted even bigger bucks for acting together with his daughter.

Jon Voight has accumulated four Golden Globe Awards and eleven nominee awards. Voight’s performance on Midnight Cowboy of 1969 fetched an Oscar nomination, which boosted his career in acting. Voight has also received an Academy Award for Best Actor portrayal in the drama film Coming Home, in 1978. From here, he has earned various awards from movies he did in the 80s and 90s. This includes motion picture drama, Runaway Train in 1985 where Voight won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor.

Jon Voight is the son of the late Barbara Voight and Elmer Voight. Voight has two brothers. They are Barry Voight, a former volcanologist and Wesley Voight, a songwriter. Voight’s grandparents from his father’s side were Slovakian while his maternal grandparents were German. This gives Voight a hidden identity that not very many people know about. He has been married twice. Voight’s former wife was Marcheline Bertrand who was an actress and starred in the 80s film, Borderline. Bertrand was married to Jon Voight from 1971 to 1978. She was the biological mother of Angelina Jolie and James Haven. Voight hardly saw his children after they divorced. Unfortunately, Voight’s ex-wife battled with ovarian cancer but lost the battle in 2007. The incidence reunited him with his children late in the year 2009. The 79-year-old celebrity is currently single but is said to have dated ladies in his past like Linda Morand, Stacey Pickren, Rebecca Mornay and Eileen Davidson. Voight’s first wife was Lauri Peters, an actress who appeared on the Broadway musical The Sound of Music. They divorced in 1967 after seven years of marriage.

Jon Voight’s political view is expansive. Coming from way back in the past, he is known to have been a democratic supporter of President John F. Kennedy. Back then, Jon Voight had worked with George Mc.Govern in Los Angeles. In the 70s, he was a leftist. Now Voight is Republican and in 2008, he did an article in the Washington Times criticizing the upcoming presidential Candidate Barack Obama. In 2012 and 2016 respectively, Jon Voight officially endorsed Mitt Romney and Donald Trump as Republican presidential nominees. Voight mostly uses Twitter to post his political views and he has received all sorts of replies from followers. Voight’s tweets are pro-Trump related and he is hell-bent on letting the world know all about his political stance. This has attracted many interested political fanatics to debate on Voight’s Twitter page along with his admirers. Jonathan Vincent Voight is still an active personality in the filming industry. Nothing holds him back. His age is not a daunting factor to him. At 79, Jon Voight still looks incredibly younger than his age. With two decades of an acting career, Jon Voight has had his own share of challenges over the period. However, this attractive, compassionate, and friendly timeless celebrity has no setbacks whatsoever. Just as everybody’s long-term dream, Jon Voight deservingly enjoys the fruit of his labor.