Greg Cipes

Greg Cipes (born January 4, 1980) is an American actor. He is best known for his voice roles as Beast Boy in Teen Titans, Teen Titans Go!, Young Justice, and Beast Boy: Lone Wolf; Michelangelo in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Kevin Levin in the Ben 10 franchise (beginning with Ben 10: Alien Force). He has made appearances on television series including Gilmore Girls, Deadwood, and Roseanne's Nuts. From 2009 to 2018, he appeared in a recurring role as Chuck in the ABC television series The Middle. His film career includes playing the character Dwight Mueller in Fast & Furious, Reed in National Lampoon's Pledge This!, and Sam in Vile.

Early life Cipes was born in Coral Springs, Florida, on January 4, 1980. He grew up in a large family of nine brothers and sisters. Inspired to be an actor at an early age, he would make his professional off-Broadway acting and singing debut at 13. At the age of 16, he wrote, recorded, and self-produced his first single. Growing up, he was also an avid surfer who won several competitions, eventually ranking #3 in junior surfing, at the age of 17, he was nationally ranked as a junior professional surfer. He graduated from Coral Springs High School in 1998. In 2001, Cipes moved to Los Angeles. Cipes has also voiced Beast Boy in Young Justice, TV movies and video games. He voiced Atlas in the Astro Boy anime series in 2003, as well as Chiro in Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! in 2004.

In 2012, he began working on Nickelodeon's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles voicing Michelangelo. Like Beast Boy Cipes has provided the voice of Michelangelo in multiple video games. Cipes also works as a singer in clubs in Los Angeles. He has released music videos for the songs "Fade Away", "Free Me", and "Oh Why Oh Why (Greg Cipes and Jah Sun)". Cipes is also a co-founder of the "Love Street Festival" in Laurel Canyon.

Cipes was the announcer for Cartoon Network from July to October 2008. In April 2017, he and Kevin Coulston created a new animated political parody improv series on Kickstarter, called A Fowl American. The story takes place on Planet Earth, where humanity has been wiped out. Animals rule the land, but President Rump, a parody of Donald Trump, is determined to repeat history.

Personal life

Cipes was raised a Messianic Jew and identified as a "Christian Jew" in 2019. He previously identified as irreligious in 2017, saying he was "free of mental slavery and hypocrisy" and jokingly claiming to be a "believer in dog". Cipes is a survivor of skin cancer. Cipes is a board member of the Kids Venice Basketball League (KVBL) Natural Leaders program in Los Angeles. Which is a youth outreach initiative connects underprivileged youth with holistic and sustainable life skills.

Cipes is a vegan. He became a vegetarian at the age of eight before switching to veganism in 2009.

Cipes regularly attends comic book conventions.

On March 4, 2025, Cipes announced on his social media that he had been diagnosed with early-onset Parkinson's disease. He later alleged that Warner Bros. terminated him from his role as Beast Boy on Teen Titans Go! on Valentine's Day. Sources close to the production disputed this, stating that the decision was based on performance-related concerns rather than his diagnosis and that Cipes was offered the opportunity to voice a new character as part of an ongoing development deal.

Filmography Voice-over roles Animation + List of voice performances in animation Year Series Role Notes Source –2006 Teen Titans Beast Boy, Adonis DC Super Hero Girls: Legends of Atlantis Beast Boy Teen Titans Beast Boy Ben 10 Alien Force: Vilgax Attacks Kevin Levin Lego DC Super-Villains Beast Boy Ben 10: Power Trip Kevin Levin Nickelodeon Extreme Tennis Michelangelo Cold Case Greg Wells Episode: "Saving Sammy" Resume Raines Hunter Episode: "Stone Dead" Resume House M.D. Cane Salesman Episode: "Family" Resume Without a Trace Wayne Episode: "Two of Us" Resume Nite Tales: The Series Surfer Episode: "Trapped" Resume Samantha Who? Street Musician Episode: "The Rock Star" Resume –18 The Middle Chuck Recurring role (13 episodes) True Blood Bufort Norris 2 episodes Resume CSI: Miami Phil Pinkerton Episode: "Dead Ringer" 2012NCIS: Los AngelesDrunk GuyEpisode: “Skin Deep”

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