Xander was born in the Netherlands in 2002. From a young age he had a vibrant imagination and would make up different voices to go along with his imaginary characters. He then started to develop a passion for drawing his own fantasy characters making up the story lines.

 

    At the age of 8, Xander came home from school one day and asked his mom and dad if they also had a large lump on their neck. A few weeks later he was diagnosed with a rare form of Hodgkins Lymphoma in stage 2, rare as less than 10% of people get this type and rare because it’s not normally found in children his age.

 

   Xander started his chemotherapy in June 2010 and began drawing an army of cancer fighting dragons, Xander’s Dragons. That all came to an abrupt stop when one of the chemo medicines affected his taste and smell, making it impossible to draw as the smell of the paper made him sick.

 

   After a long stretch of Chemotherapy he overcame his cancer and it went into remission. However, a year after filming lemuria project his cancer returned and he went back into full chemotherapy treatment for 7 months.

 

In 2014 he triumphantly beat cancer for a second time during post production and is once again his cancer is in remission..a true hero. Since participating in the project Xander began taking acting classes, making props and was had a speaking role on Hawaii 5-0!