| Residence Los Angeles Role Animator Nationality American TV shows Gravity Falls | Years active 2008–present Siblings Ariel Hirsch Name Alex Hirsch | |
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| Full Name Alexander Robert Hirsch Born June 18, 1985 (age 37) (1985-06-18) Piedmont, California, U.S. Alma mater California Institute of the Arts Occupation Storyboard artist, producer, screenwriter, voice actor Education California Institute of the Arts Similar People Kristen Schaal, Jason Ritter, Linda Cardellini, Rebecca Sugar, Will Forte Profiles | ||
CTN TV Game Changers panel w/Butch Hartman, Alex Hirsch, Rebecca Sugar, Craig McCraken, Lauren Faust
Alexander Robert "Alex" Hirsch (born June 18, 1985) is an American animator, storyboard artist, voice actor, and television producer. He is best known as the creator of the Disney XD animated television series Gravity Falls, where he voices some of the characters. He has previously worked as a storyboard artist on the Cartoon Network series The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack and the Disney Channel series Fish Hooks.
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- CTN TV Game Changers panel wButch Hartman Alex Hirsch Rebecca Sugar Craig McCraken Lauren Faust
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- Career
- Personal life
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Career
Hirsch is most known for creating the series Gravity Falls for the Disney Channel. He provided the voice of Grunkle Stan, Soos, Old Man McGucket and Bill Cipher, as well as many other minor characters featured throughout the show.
Hirsch first started out as a writer and storyboard artist for The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, where he worked alongside and befriended fellow animators J. G. Quintel (who would go on to create Regular Show) and Pendleton Ward (who would go on to create Adventure Time).
Hirsch later moved on to be the writer, storyboard artist and creative consultant for Fish Hooks, which he also developed for television alongside Maxwell Atoms, where he portrays Clamantha, her father, Fumble, one of the fish police and a Ferret.
In 2013, Hirsch provided the voice of Officer Concord the Juice Time Juice Box Flavor Cop in the "Terrifying Tri-State Trilogy of Terror" episode of Phineas and Ferb, also on Disney Channel.
In late 2015, Hirsch provided a cameo in the music video for "Dance Bitch" by Allie Goertz.
On January 6, 2016, Variety revealed that Hirsch signed a development deal with Fox Broadcasting Company to make a new animated series.
It was revealed on August 16, 2016 that Hirsch is now co-writing the new live-action Pokémon movie Detective Pikachu alongside Guardians of the Galaxy and Captain Marvel writer Nicole Perlman.
Personal life
Gravity Falls was inspired by Hirsch's own childhood experiences with his twin sister during their summer vacations. He places many of his real-life experiences in the show, like living in Piedmont and trick-or-treating with his sister as kids. Mabel Pines, one of the lead characters of Gravity Falls, was inspired by his twin sister, Ariel Hirsch. In the series Mabel gets a pet pig, just like his sister had always wanted when she was a kid.
Hirsch is a graduate of Piedmont High School. In 2002, as a junior, he won the high school's annual bird-calling contest and appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman, demonstrating the call of the great blue heron.