The star of the cult hit film "Napoleon Dynamite" and his wife are expecting their first child, his publicist said.

Jon Heder, 28, spilled the news during a Hollywood Foreign Press news conference on this past week, said publicist Nicole Chabot on Friday.

Heder, 28, appears in the upcoming film "School for Scoundrels."

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Heder and his wife, Kirsten, married in 2002. He made his film breakthrough playing Napoleon, a memorable oddball, in the 2004 movie, filmed in Preston, Idaho.

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