Jon Voight

Jon Voight was born on December 29, 1938 in Yonkers, New York. He started his career in television, appearing in a scattering of episodes in Gunsmoke from 1963 to 1968. He also had several smaller television roles before his theater career took off in his role on A View from the Bridge in 1965.

Voight played the lead in Midnight Cowboy alongside Dustin Hoffman, which earned him an Oscar nomination. He also appeared in the adaptation of Catch-22 and Deliverance. He returned to theater for the play A Streetcar Named Desire. He won Best Actor at Cannes for his role in Coming Home (1978). His career slowed a bit, but Voight continued to star in high-powered roles like The Rainmaker, Uprising, Pearl Harbor and the television series Ray Donovan, which earned him a Golden Globe win.