Editing Jon Voight (section)

==Early life and education ==
Jonathan Vincent Voight<ref name="britannica.com"/> was born on December 29, 1938, in [[Yonkers, New York]],<ref>{{cite news |title=Jon Voight bio |access-date=June 10, 2009 |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/person/115561/Jon-Voight/biography |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080610132655/https://movies.nytimes.com/person/115561/Jon-Voight/biography |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=[[The New York Times]] |author=Hal Erickson |author-link=Hal Erickson (author) |year=2008 |archive-date=10 June 2008}}</ref> to Barbara ({{nee|Kamp}}) and Elmer Voight ({{ne|Voytka}}),<ref name="wargs">{{cite web |last=Reitwiesner |first=William Addams |title=Ancestry of Angelina Jolie |publisher=wargs.com |url=http://www.wargs.com/other/voight.html |access-date=April 24, 2011 |archive-date=June 1, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190601150956/http://www.wargs.com/other/voight.html |url-status=live }}</ref> a professional golfer.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.golf.com/tour-and-news/new-york-club-professional-elmer-voight-raised-geologist-singer-and-academy-award-winning-actor |title=New York club professional Elmer Voight raised a geologist, a singer and an Academy Award-winning actor |work=Golf Magazine |date=2014-08-06 |access-date=2020-01-20 |archive-date=April 17, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190417103215/https://www.golf.com/tour-and-news/new-york-club-professional-elmer-voight-raised-geologist-singer-and-academy-award-winning-actor |url-status=live }}</ref> He has two brothers, [[Barry Voight]], a former [[volcanologist]] at [[Pennsylvania State University]],<ref>[http://www.geosc.psu.edu/people/faculty/personalpages/bvoight/index.html Barry Voight Biography] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130907162328/http://www.geosc.psu.edu/people/faculty/personalpages/bvoight/index.html |date=September 7, 2013 }}. Pennsylvania State University. Retrieved April 24, 2011.</ref> and James Wesley Voight, known as [[Chip Taylor]], a singer-songwriter who wrote "[[Wild Thing (The Troggs song)|Wild Thing]]" and "[[Angel of the Morning]]". Voight's paternal grandfather and his paternal grandmother's parents were [[List of Slovak Americans|Slovak]] immigrants,<ref>{{cite web |title=Is Jon Voight Slovak? |publisher=[[University of Pittsburgh]] |access-date=June 2, 2011 |url=http://www.pitt.edu/~votruba/qsonhist/celebrities/voightjon.html |archive-date=February 19, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150219111111/http://www.pitt.edu/~votruba/qsonhist/celebrities/voightjon.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> while his maternal grandfather and his maternal grandmother's parents were German immigrants.<ref name="wargs" /> Political activist [[Joseph P. Kamp]] was his great-uncle through his mother.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Middle East: Abstracts and index, Part 2 |publisher=Northumberland Press |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vK1tAAAAMAAJ |page=53 |date=2006 |access-date=17 January 2019}}</ref>

Voight was raised as a [[Catholic Church|Catholic]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://sunday.niedziela.pl/artykul.php?dz=kultura&id_art=00006 |title=Sunday Catholic weekly |work=sunday.niedziela.pl |access-date=April 5, 2010 |archive-date=February 27, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200227135724/http://sunday.niedziela.pl/artykul.php?dz=kultura&id_art=00006 |url-status=live }}</ref> and attended the Catholic boys' [[Archbishop Stepinac High School]] in [[White Plains, New York]], where he first took an interest in acting. Following his graduation in 1956, he enrolled at [[Catholic University of America]] in [[Washington, D.C.]], where he majored in art and graduated with a [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] degree in 1960. After graduation, Voight moved to New York City, where he pursued an acting career. He graduated from the [[Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre]],<ref name="britannica.com">{{Cite web |title=Jon Voight {{!}} Biography, Movies, & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jon-Voight |access-date=2020-12-02 |website=Encyclopædia Britannica |language=en |archive-date=October 3, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181003161039/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jon-Voight |url-status=live }}</ref> where he studied under [[Sanford Meisner]].<ref name="britannica.com"/><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/film-and-television-biographies/jon-voight |title=Jon Voight &#124; Encyclopedia.com |website=encyclopedia.com |access-date=December 2, 2020 |archive-date=May 1, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220501214858/https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/film-and-television-biographies/jon-voight |url-status=live }}</ref>