Jon Heder News


Jon Heder

Contact Celebrity

Contact Jon Heder

NEW PHOTO: Seeing Double! Which Is The Real Jon Heder? Who knew ...

Radar - Found May. 1, 2009
Who knew Napolean Dynamite star Jon Heder had a twin brother.. who's identical! Jon stepped out with his brother Dan at the world premiere of the...

Posted on May 1, 2009, 10:05 am

Some films make for high-flying entertainment

Houston Chronicle - Found Jul. 3, 2009
Starring Will Ferrell and Jon Heder.

Posted on July 3, 2009, 3:59 am

Tracy Ringolsby

Baseball America - Found Jun. 27, 2009
April 7, features an eccentric billionaire (Jon Lovitz) who backs a three-man team of adult misfits (Rob Schneider, Jon Heder and David Spade...

Posted on June 27, 2009, 6:49 am

Films of the fifty states: Hawaii to Iowa

Examiner.com - Found Jun. 23, 2009
Starring Jon Heder, Tina Majorino, and Efren Ramirez, the film is about an outcast at a local high school who dances his way to popularity.

Posted on June 23, 2009, 6:45 am

Air travel: These films are cleared for takeoff

San Francisco Chronicle - Found Jul. 3, 2009
Starring Will Ferrell, above left, and Jon Heder . 'Derailed' (2005): Jennifer Aniston is a woman of mystery and Clive Owen is a commuter who...

Posted on July 3, 2009, 10:29 am

Blab Blab Blab: Segel and Rudd?H'wood's Cutest Couple?

EOnline.com - Found Jun. 15, 2009
Knoxville','Jolene Blalock','Jon Bon Jovi','Jon Cryer','Jon Favreau','Jon Hamm','Jon Heder','Jon Lovitz','Jon Stewart','Jon Tenney','Jon...

Posted on June 15, 2009, 7:45 am

Ask the Flying Monkey! (June 14, 2009)

After Elton - Found Jun. 14, 2009
Alan Tudyk Q: Chris Evans makes an appearance on the Mystery Date board game (circa 1999) A: Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite) was featured on the...

Posted on June 14, 2009, 10:46 am

Review of The Hangover

Examiner.com - Found Jun. 7, 2009
Scoundrels especially was a disappointment; will Jon Heder please just go away? Napoleon Dynamite was funny, but it wasn't that funny.
The Best Of Zach Galifianakis (VIDEO) - Huffington Post
This 'Hangover' may leave some disgusted, some laughing - NWI Times
The Hangover will make you laugh (and wince) | 3 stars - KansasCity.com
Ambition led actor to Hangover - Timmins Daily Press
Explore All

Posted on June 7, 2009, 8:42 am

Pop Star on Ice

Variety - Found Jun. 10, 2009
... irrepressibly provocative Weir (whose sparkling costumes and dying-swan choreography inspired the character Jon Heder plays in "Blades of...

Posted on June 10, 2009, 4:00 am

Fire and ice (and celluloid)

Delaware Online - Found Jun. 20, 2009
... ice skating comedy 'Blades of Glory.' (Weir dressed as a swan during his Olympic program, and actor Jon Heder, who based his character on the...

Posted on June 20, 2009, 2:16 am

Jon Heder Biography

Jon Heder
extracted from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia, distributed under the GNU Free Documentation License

Jon Heder
Born Jonathan Joseph Heder
October 26, 1977 (1977-10-26) (age 31)
Fort Collins, Colorado, U.S.
Years active 2004 - present
Spouse(s) Kirsten Bales (2002-present)

Jonathan Joseph "Jon" Heder (born October 26, 1977)1 is an American actor and filmmaker. He is best known for his portrayal of the title character in 2004's Napoleon Dynamite. He has also acted in The Benchwarmers, School for Scoundrels, Blades of Glory, Monster House, Mama's Boy, and Surf's Up.

Contents

Early life

Heder was born in Fort Collins, Colorado, and is one of six children of family practice physician Dr. James Heder and his wife Helen. He has an identical twin brother named Dan. He also has an older sister and brother, Rachel and Doug, and two younger brothers, Adam and Matt. Heder graduated from South Salem High School in Salem, Oregon in 1996. He is a former member of the swim team at South Salem High. In addition, he was a staff member of the Drama Association, DRAMA, in 1995. In the issue, there is a piece of art by Jon Heder that resembles a liger.

Heder is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and served an LDS mission in Japan, for which he learned to speak Japanese.

A 2002 alumnus of Brigham Young University, Heder worked on the short CGI animated film "Pet Shop" which earned a non-traditional animation student Emmy in 2005. After his movie career took off, he did not return to complete the work he started on the short, although his name does appear in the credits. Also, while attending BYU he befriended Jared Hess and starred in his short film Peluca, which was later expanded into Napoleon Dynamite. "Peluca" received rave reviews on the BYU campus after showing at a few college and local film festivals and competitions.

Heder is the nephew by marriage of former NFL running back and current WCAU sports caster, Vai Sikahema.2

Career

Napoleon Dynamite, filmed in Preston, Idaho, earned more revenue than almost any other Sundance movie.citation needed In June 2005, Heder received the MTV Movie Award for Best Musical Performance and Breakthrough Male Performance for the role. On October 8, 2005, he hosted Saturday Night Live with musical guest Ashlee Simpson. After his success with Napoleon Dynamite, for which he was paid only $1,000, Heder and his film co-star Efren Ramirez filmed a series of commercials to promote the 2005 Utah State Fair. They appear as their characters from Napoleon Dynamite; in at least one commercial, they are shown with the FFA medals that they won in the context of the movie.

He appeared in the film The Sasquatch Gang. He had a supporting role as a clerk in a new age bookstore in the romantic comedy Just Like Heaven. He also starred alongside Rob Schneider and David Spade as part of the trio in producer Adam Sandler's The Benchwarmers (2006), a comedy about three grown men making up for lost chances by creating their own Little League baseball team. He was the voice of the character Skull in the animated film Monster House, and starred in the comedy School for Scoundrels, opposite Billy Bob Thornton and Jacinda Barrett. With the exception of the Academy Award-nominee Monster House, Heder's post-Dynamite movies were widely pannedcitation needed and he risked becoming a one-hit wonder until he co-starred in 2007 with Will Ferrell in the well-received Blades of Glory (2007). Like many of Heder's films, Blades of Glory is an absurd, slapstick caricature, in this case revolving around male figure skaters who must team up in a pairs competition.

Heder's second turn at voice acting came in 2007 when he voiced the character of Chicken Joe, a surfing chicken, in the animated film Surf's Up. His first foray into web television was in the 2008 web series Woke Up Dead starring and produced by Heder.3 Woke Up Dead is a web-based, live-action sci-fi comedy thriller about Drex, a twenty-something USC student who wakes up underwater in the bathtub one morning and suspects that he might be dead.

Jon and his twin brother Dan star together as villains in the fourth installment of the popular internet martial arts comedy series Sockbaby.

Personal life

Heder lives with his wife Kirsten Heder in Los Angeles, California. The two have been married since 2002. The couple had a girl, Evan Jane Heder, on April 6, 2007.4

Jon and Dan

Jon stated during an appearance on Late Show with David Letterman that he and his identical twin, Dan Heder, think alike and, as children, would often finish each other's sentences (a common occurrence with identical twins). When Letterman asked him whether being an identical twin is a good experience, Dan replied that it is mostly good, but that as children "we caused a lot trouble by pretending to be the other, the memories still give me a good chuckle."

Filmography

Year Film Role Notes
2004 Napoleon Dynamite Napoleon Dynamite Main Role
2005 Just like Heaven Darryl Supporting Role
2006 The Benchwarmers Clark Reedy Main Role
Monster House Reginald "Skull" Skulinski Voice Role
School for Scoundrels Roger Main Role
2007 Blades of Glory Jimmy MacElroy Main Role
Surf's Up Chicken Joe Voice Role
Moving McAllister Orlie Main Role
Mama's Boy Jeffrey McMannus Main Role
2010 When in Rome post-production

Television


References

External links