Jon Voight was born on December 29, 1938, in Yonkers, New York. Jon Voight was raised in a Catholic household with two brothers by a professional golfer father. One of his brothers went on to become a volcanologist at Penn State, while the other (Chip Taylor) went on to become a successful singer-songwriter.
Voight first became interested in acting while in high school, when he participated in school musicals. After high school, Jon Voight attended The Catholic University of America and earned a B.A. in 1960 before moving to New York to pursue an acting career.
