Alex Hirsch

Alex Hirsch represents something I deeply respect in television: total authorship. He didn't just create Gravity Falls; he voiced Grunkle Stan, Soos, and Bill Cipher himself, so the show carries his fingerprints in every frame. What elevates him above most showrunners, in my view, is restraint — he ended the story on his own terms instead of milking a hit for a decade. That CalArts-honed craft plus a genuine love of puzzles and lore produced a kids' show that adults still quote years later. I'd trust him with any premise, because he treats endings as part of the art.

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Name (English)

Alex Hirsch

Name (Japanese)

アレックス・ハーシュ

Reading

あれっくす・はーしゅ

Born

June 18, 1985 (age 41)

Origin

Piedmont, California, United States

Occupation

animator / storyboard artist / voice actor / television producer / actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Ox

High school

Piedmont High School

Filmography / notable works

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/_alexhirsch_/
• Xhttps://x.com/_AlexHirsch
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex%20Hirsch
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AC%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8F%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4717190

Tags

• California
• animator
• storyboard artist
• voice actor

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.