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Jon Heder was born on October 26, 1977 in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA as Jonathan Joseph Heder. He is an actor and producer, known for Napoleon Dynamite (2004), Die Eisprinzen (2007) and Die Bankdrücker (2006). He has been married to Kirsten Heder since November 23, 2002. They have three children.



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He is a graduate of South Salem High School, Salem, Oregon.



He has a twin brother, Daniel, 3 other brothers and an oldest sister.



Attends Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. [2004]



He is heavily into 1970s clothes, music, etc.



Speaks fluent Japanese.



Spent two years in Japan on the traditional proselytizing mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.





His father Jim is the older brother of WCAU sportscaster Vai Sikahema 's wife, Keala.

Jon and his wife, Kirsten, met at Brigham Young University.



Has daughter Evan Jane, born on April 6, 2007, and two sons, Philip and Timothy with wife Kirsten.



He has Swedish, Danish, English, German, Scottish, and Dutch ancestry.



Is a computer animator and majored in 3D animation at Brigham Young University.



Personal Quotes (3)



"If I look back at the scripts I received after Napoleon Dynamite (2004), I think the town thought I had multiple personalities that were all a variation of that character. They probably just thought of me as someone their kids liked, but was more like the goofy kid that asked to mow their lawn, not a professional actor".

I don't think I ever will do a sex scene because of my religion and my personal standards. Coming into this business has opened up many doors where I'm constantly making a decision on each project. I'll never do a sex scene where you see a man and a woman lie on the bed and the camera is still there with the naked actors in your face. I won't show the act of it on screen.



It's tough now, because am I like an ambassador (for Mormonism) now? I was representing the church on my mission, and now I'm representing the church again in some ways. Sometimes I downplay it. 'I'm a Mormon. This is what Mormons do.' That's not my thing. I want to get up there and tell entertaining stories but that are also to a certain extent clean.



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