Alex Hirsch

At 38 years old, Alex Hirsch physical status not available right now. We will update Alex Hirsch's height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, and measurements.

Alexander Robert Hirsch (born June 18, 1985) is an American writer, animator, and voice actor.

He is the creator of the Disney Channel series Gravity Falls, for which he provided the voices of Grunkle Stan, Soos, and Bill Cipher, among other things.

He has also been named BAFTA and Annie Awards for the series.

Hirsch co-authored Gravity Falls: Journal 3 in 2016, which appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list for over a year.

Early life and education

On June 18, 1985, Hirsch was born in Piedmont, California. Ariel has a twin brother. His father, who was raised agnostic, celebrates Christmas and Hanukkah. Hirsch and his twin sister, who is nine years old at the time, will remain with their great-aunt (or "graunt") Lois at her cabin in the woods during the summer. Hirsch's inspiration for Gravity Falls came from these experiences later. He graduated from Piedmont High School as a freshman and appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman in 2002.

Hirsch continued to attend the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), where he made a number of projects and short films, including Off The Wall, which combined animation and live action, and "Cuddle Bee Hugs N'Such" with Adrian Molina, which was selected by Nicktoons Network for their original series Shorts in a Bunch. He spent the summer of 2006 in Portland, Oregon, on a Laika-scrapped animated film. In 2007, he graduated from the University.

Personal life

Hirsch's personal experience and his friendship with his own twin sister, Ariel Hirsch, influenced Gravity Falls' summer vacations. Many of his real-life tales in the show included living in Piedmont and trick-or-treating with his sister as youth. One of Gravity Falls' main characters, Dipper Pines, is based on Hirsch's memory of being a boy. When Hirsch was a child of Dipper, he tried to instill in himself backward speech by reversing recordings of his own voice. Hirsch referred to himself as "the neurotic boy" who would carry 16 disposable cameras with him wherever he went. Mabel Pines' character was influenced by Ariel. Ariel "actually did wear wacky jackets and have a different bizarre crush every week," in a similar fashion to Mabel, according to Hirsch. Mabel gets a pet pig in the series, just like Ariel had always wanted when she was a child. Grunkle Stan's grandfather Stan, who, according to Hirsch, "was a guy that told tall tales and would often mess with us to get a rise out of us."

Hirsch was in a relationship with The Owl House creator Dana Terrace from 2015 to about April 2022. Hirsch and Terrace also hosted numerous charity live streams together, including Planned Parenthood, The American Civil Liberties Union, The Southern Poverty Defence Council, The Young Lawyers Union (with Ninja Sex and Arin Hanson), Direct Relief (with Rebecca Sugar and Ian Jones-Quartey), and RAICES (with Daron Nefcy and Eden Sher). These activities took in over $270,000 as of 2018.

Hirsch lauded The Owl House for its nonheterosexual appearances in August 2020, claiming that he had been forbidden from incorporating any specific nonheterosexual elements into Gravity Falls.

Hirsch prank-called Rudy Giuliani's voter fraud hotline, which was initiated by the Donald Trump campaign, by using the voices of several Gravity Falls characters to alert Hamburglar-esque ballot theft.

Source

Career

After graduating from CalArts, Hirsch's first work was as a writer and storyboard artist for The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack on Cartoon Network, where he collaborated with fellow CalArts alumni J. G. Quintel, Pendleton Ward (who was his writing partner on the film) and Patrick McHale. He'll continue to develop the pilot for the Disney Channel series Fish Hooks, alongside Maxwell Atoms and future Rick and Morty creator Justin Roiland.

Hirsch created Gravity Falls for the Disney Channel in 2012. The show, which takes place in Gravity Falls, Oregon, premiered in June 2012 with a voice cast starring Jason Ritter, Kristen Schaal, and Hirsch himself. Grunkle Stan, Soos, Old Man McGucket, Bill Cipher, and several other minor characters appeared on the series over the course of the series. In 2014, the program was migrated to Disney XD. In 2015, it was selected for a BAFTA Children's Award and an Annie Award, as well as numerous other awards (including a Peabody Award in 2016). In February 2016, Hirsch ended Gravity Falls in order to work on other projects.

Hirsch held a worldwide treasure hunt (known as "Cipher Hunt") for Gravity Falls fans in July 2016, including in the United States, Japan, and Russia. Bill Cipher, a Gravity Falls character, was the object of the hunt. Fans of the show discovered the statue in Reedsport, Oregon, after two weeks. The hunt coincided with the launch of Hirsch's tie-in book Gravity Falls: Journal 3, which was announced on July 26, 2016, and later became a No. 1 in the United Kingdom. 1 New York Times Best Seller list, and he appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list for nearly a year. Due to the book's success, Gravity Falls: Journal 3, a special edition of the journal was released on June 13, 2017 and limited to 10,000 copies. The Gravity Falls: Journal 3 Special Edition includes blacklight writing, parchment pages, a monocle, removable photos, and notes, as well as other functions that were not included in the regular version of the book.

Hirsch announced an official Gravity Falls graphic novel on Twitter in February 2018 as part of a series of puzzle pieces that would be released throughout the day. The inside of Gravity Falls: Legends of the Lost Legends was revealed by putting together the puzzle pieces together; 4 All-New Adventures. Hirsch's book, which was written by Hirsch, was published on July 24, 2018 and has since been named a New York Times Best Seller.

Hirsch has worked on several projects, including Phineas and Ferb, Rick and Morty, and as the announcer for Chelsea Peretti's One of the Greats. Hirsch, along with Galaxy and Captain Marvel writer Nicole Perlman, had been in talks to co-write Detective Pikachu, a live-action Pokémon film. However, he began the project early in the process before actually writing any of the script. Hirsch was a story contributor to Sony's animated Spider-Man film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018).

According to Variety, Hirsch signed a multi-year contract with Netflix on August 27, 2018, and then began designing a series for the service. Along with designer and showrunner Shion Takeuchi, Hirsch co-executive produces the film Inside Job. On October 22, 2021, the first half of the first season premiered, with the second half set for release in the near future.

He is currently the voice of King Hooty and additional voices in the Disney Channel animated series The Owl House, created by Dana Terrace. On January 10, 2020, the show premiered.

Source