Alex Hirsch

According to sources, he is in a long-term relationship with director Dana Terrace who is best recognised for her work on ‘Gravity Falls’ (2012) and ‘Mirage’ (2012).

He has helped in raising more than $200,000 for Hurricane Harvey relief in 2017 along with Ethan Klein and Justin Roiland through a Twitch charity live stream.

Alex has garnered decent popularity on different social media platforms that include gaining over 150 K followers on his Instagram account ‘_alexhirsch_’ and more than 530 K followers on his Twitter account ‘_alexhirsch’ that he created in October 2009.

Alexander Robert Hirsch was born on June 18, 1985, in Piedmont, Alameda County, California, US. Not much is known about his family excepting that he has a twin sister, Ariel and three half-sisters, Lauren, Jessica and Katrina. As a child he was quite fond of the American animated sitcom ‘The Simpsons’ and he count it among his main influencers.

He attended the Piedmont High School where, in 2002, he won the annual Bird Calling Contest of the school. While there, he also featured on the popular American late-night talk show ‘Late Show with David Letterman.’

He enrolled at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) from where he completed his graduation in 2007. While there he developed different short films and projects. These included the short film ‘Off the Wall’ created in spring 2007. Later animation executive at Disney, Mike Moon, happened to see the film that was a combination of both animation and live action. This led Moon to ask Hirsch to develop a TV series for Disney that eventually resulted in ‘Gravity Falls.’

Meanwhile during summer 2006 he worked on an animated film for American stop-motion animation studio Laika in Portland, Oregon, which was however scrapped later.

After graduating from CalArts, Hirsch worked at the Los Angeles, California based digital entertainment studio called JibJab. He earned his first job as writer and storyboard artist of the American animated television series ‘The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack’ that aired on Cartoon Network.

He along with Bill Reiss developed the Disney Channel animated series, ‘Fish Hooks.’ He also contributed as Creative Director and voiced the recurring role of Clamantha in the series that aired for over three years from September 3, 2010 to April 4, 2014.

In 2012, he landed up with one of the most notable works of his career, creating the American animated television series ‘Gravity Falls.’ Disney Television Animation produced the critically acclaimed show for Disney Channel and Disney XD from June 15, 2012, to February 15, 2016. Hirsch once recalled that as he wanted to work for Disney, he turned down Jeffrey Katzenberg of DreamWorks Animation while he was attending CalArts.

Hirsch has also contributed to the main voice roles of Grunkle Stan and Soos Ramirez in ‘Gravity Falls’ apart from providing voices of recurring characters Bill Cipher and Gnomes. The series bagged several awards and nominations including winning BAFTA Children's Award and an Annie Award in 2015.

The series ‘Gravity Falls’ revolves around adventures of Dipper Pines and his twin sister Mabel while they were on a summer visit to their great-uncle Stan’s place in a mysterious town of Gravity Falls that had supernatural creatures and paranormal forces all around. This concept was inspired from experiences of Hirsch's own childhood with sister Ariel while they spent their summer vacations. While the character of Mabel was inspired by Ariel, that of Stan was based on his own grandfather. Many of the real-life experiences of Hirsch including trick-or-treating with Ariel and living in Piedmont as kids have found place in the series.