Alex Hirsch

== Alex Hirch ==
Alexander "Alex" Robert Hirsch (born June 18, 1985) is the creator and was the executive producer of the American animated television series, Gravity Falls. He voiced two of the main characters in the popular show, Grunkle Stan and Soos. He also voiced supporting and recurring characters such as: Old Man McGucket, Bill Cipher, the gnomes and many others. He has four siblings: his twin sister, Ariel Hirsch, his half-sisters, Lauren Hirsch[2], Katrina Hirsch, and Jessica Hirsch. He placed many of his real-life experiences in the show, such as living in Piedmont, California and trick-or-treating with his sister Ariel as cats. He also based the series off the summers he and Ariel spent with their great aunt (or graunty) Lois, at her cabin in the woods, between the ages of 9 and 13.[3] Both he and his sister wished they would go on the adventures that Mabel and Dipper go on in the show. He based Mabel on his twin sister, Ariel Hirsch, and Grunkle Stan off of his Grandpa Stan, and based the entire series loosely on his childhood summers. He gave Mabel a pet pig named Waddles because his sister had always wanted one when she was young.