Jon Heder

Growing up, Jon was a huge fan of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. He watched the cartoons, memorized the lines from the movie, and even shot videos using his action figures.

Jon played basketball, soccer, and baseball in grade school. In high school, he was into cross country, swimming, and track.

When Jon voiced the character Chicken Joe in Surf's Up, he has never surfed in his life. Instead, he likes to snorkel and scuba.

Although Jon is allergic to cats, he owns two of them.

In 2005, Jon did TV commercials shown in Canada for Mr. Sub restaurants.

In May 2007, Jon and his wife Kirsten became parents to their first child, daughter Evan Jane Heder.

Jon's wife received a phone call on her cell one day, from some teens in Chicago, letting her know that they were huge fans of her husband. They were surprised when she gave them his cell phone number, and he talked to them himself.

Jon made his film debut at Sundance Film Festival in the award-winning short film Peluca, written and directed by Jared Hess.

Jon, his twin brother Daniel, and brother Doug are all partners in their own production company, Greasy Entertainment.

Jon will not accept a role that involves his character smoking, drinking, using drugs, swearing, or having sex.

Jon fractured his ankle while filming the 2006 movie Blades of Glory with Will Ferrell, a comedy about the competitive world of male figure skating.

Jon received two MTV Movie Awards in 2005 for Best Musical Performance and Breakthrough Male Star for his performance in Napoleon Dynamite.

Jon's frizzy hair in the movie Napoleon Dynamite was actually a very tight perm.

Jon got his start in a children's theater production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Jon's father is an MD in practice in West Salem, Oregon whose office sports a large poster of his character in Napoleon Dynamite (2004).

Jon and his wife, Kirsten, met at Brigham Young University. They have been married since 2002.

Jon's father Jim is the older brother of WCAU sportscaster Vai Sikahema's wife, Keala. He has four brothers and a sister.

Jon is heavily into 70's clothes, music, etc.

Jon loves Futurama (1999) and Led Zeppelin.

A stock photo of Jon appears on the box cover of Screenlife's "Quip It!" board game. According to Screenlife, "The image on the font of the Quip It! game box was picked from a variety of stock model photos because it best captured the attitude of this fun, irreverent game. Surprisingly, at the time the image was selected, the design team did not know the image was Jon Heder. That just happens to be an ironic twist since the image was selected merely to convey the reaction people get when they see the visual puzzles and read out Quips during the game.

Jon auditioned for a part in the 2005 film Zathura.

Jon is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and served and went on a mission to Japan.

Jon and Efren Ramirez (who played Pedro in Napoleon Dynamite) filmed a series advertising the 2005 Utah State Fair, that can be seen on the Napoleon Dynamite special edition DVD.

In 2005, an untrue Internet article, said that Heder died in a car crash after leaving the wrap party for the movie Moving McAllister.

Jon and his twin brother Daniel were victims of Ashton Kutcher's MTV reality prank show, Punk'd in 2003.

Jon accepted the lead role of Napoleon Dynamite for a mere $1000.00, as a favor to his friend Jared Hess. Once the movie was sold to Fox SearchLight Entertainment for multi-millions of dollars, they awarded Jon with an unspecified amount of a bonus.

Jon attended Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. He majored in 3-D animation, and met fellow student and writer & director Jared Hess. Hess went on to pen Napoleon Dynamite.

He is 6'1.5" tall.