Jonathan Vincent "Jon" Voight (born December 29, 1938) is an American actor. While he is perhaps better known to youthful audiences as the father of Oscar-winner Angelina Jolie, Jon Voight... an Oscar-winner and four-time nominee himself, has a long and distinguished career as both a leading man and, in recent years, character actor, with an extensive range. The blonde, blue-eyed actor with a boyish face came to prominence at the end of the sixties, with a riveting performance as a male prostitute in 1969's Best Picture winner, Midnight Cowboy, for which he earned his first Academy Award