Jon Voight is an American actor who has been in the entertainment industry since the 1960s. He is best known for his roles in films such as Midnight Cowboy, Deliverance, and Coming Home, for which he won an Academy Award. He is also known for his role as Mickey Donovan in the Showtime series Ray Donovan. Voight was a major supporter of the Vietnam War and was a vocal advocate for the passage of the Voight Act, which provided funding for veterans of the war.