Owain Yeoman, a Welsh actor best known for starring in The Mentalist, has announced that he and wife Gigi Yallouz are expecting a baby in 2015.

‘We are overjoyed to announce our pregnancy!’ the happy couple told People on Friday.

This will be the first child for both parents, who married in September 2013.

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Parents-to-be: Owain Yeoman and Gigi Yallouz have announced that they are expecting their first child in 2015; here they are pictured in August

In the ongoing excitement of the announcement, Yeoman followed up his official statements with a sonogram photo posted to Instagram.

'Never have I loved someone soo [sic] much that I am still yet to meet!' the actor wrote.

Before marrying jewelry designer Gigi in Malibu, Owain was married to The Office star Lucy Davis for five years.

Baby's first picture: Yeoman posted a sonogram picture of his unborn child to Instagram on Friday

Yeoman and Davis divorced in 2011.

Owain, 36, has appeared mainly on television shows – from Generation Kill to The Nine to The Mentalist – throughout his career.

His role of Agent Wayne Rigsby on The Mentalist was by far Yeoman’s longest, lasting for six seasons of the crime procedural from 2008 to 2014.

Tough cop: Yeoman (left) played Agent Wayne Rigsby on The Mentalist for six seasons, from 2008 to 2014

Scary baby story: In summer 2014, Yeoman recurred opposite Halle Berry in Extant, a show about a potentially dangerous, science-fiction pregnancy

After the season 6 finale of The Mentalist, Owain moved on to a recurring role opposite Halle Berry in the summer series, Extant.

The actor will next be seen in the role of the infamous Benedict Arnold in the Revolutionary War series, Turn: Washington’s Spies.