Lex Gigeroff

Alexander Kier Gigeroff (June 29, 1962 – December 25, 2011), known professionally as Lex Gigeroff, was a Canadian television writer and actor best remembered as a co-creator of the science fiction series Lexx. He also appeared in the comedy series Liocracy and the short film Treevenge.

Biography Gigeroff was born in Ottawa. His father Alex K. Gigeroff (1931–2016) was a prominent artist, playwright and writer on criminology and the law who was the son of Macedonian Canadians: both of his parents were poor immigrants from Macedonian villages and "Gigeroff" was his father's immigrant's assigned name. Lex's brother Andre Haines is an artist and musician who also contributed to the Lexx series as an actor and songwriter.

Gigeroff grew up in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. When he was 10 he wrote a play for Cub Scouts which was picked up as a project for a youth group in Toronto and eventually staged. In 1985, he graduated from Dalhousie University with a major in English; during the last year he served as the president of the Dalhousie Student Union.

He also worked as an announcer at the CJLS radio in the late 1970s and became actively involved with the campus-community radio CKDU-FM, serving as a programming manager from 1987 to 1989. Apart from writing, Gigeroff also starred in various roles while his name became an inspiration for the show's title.

Gigeroff died at his home in Fredericton, New Brunswick, on December 25, 2011, from a heart attack.