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 (2012) 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. Growing up, he was 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.

Career

Cipes was the voice of Beast Boy in the animated television series Teen Titans and Kevin Levin in the Ben 10 franchise. He also voices Stinkfly in the Ben 10 reboot series. He reprised the role of Beast Boy in the spin-off series Teen Titans Go!, as well as video games based on Teen Titans and the online game DC Universe Online. 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. He also voiced Tu in The Legend of Korra. 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 vegan. He became a vegetarian at the age of eight before switching to veganism in 2009.

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

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| –2006 ||Teen Titans || Beast Boy, Adonis || ||

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| || DC Super Hero Girls: Legends of Atlantis || Beast Boy || ||

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| || Teen Titans || Beast Boy || ||

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| || Ben 10 Alien Force: Vilgax Attacks || Kevin Levin || ||

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| || Lego DC Super-Villains || Beast Boy || ||

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| || Ben 10: Power Trip || Kevin Levin || ||

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| || Nickelodeon Extreme Tennis || Michelangelo || ||

  • Lego Dimensions – Beast Boy
  • Lego Marvel's Avengers – Iron Fist
  • Lego Marvel Super Heroes – Havok, Nightmare, Shocker, Toad
  • MySims – Buddy the Bellhop

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Live-action roles

Film

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| || Cold Case || Greg Wells || Episode: "Saving Sammy" || Resume

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| || Raines || Hunter || Episode: "Stone Dead" || Resume

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| || House M.D. || Cane Salesman || Episode: "Family" || Resume

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| || Without a Trace || Wayne || Episode: "Two of Us" || Resume

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| || Nite Tales: The Series || Surfer || Episode: "Trapped" || Resume

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| || Samantha Who? || Street Musician || Episode: "The Rock Star" || Resume

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| –18 || The Middle || Chuck || Recurring role (13 episodes) ||

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| || True Blood || Bufort Norris || 2 episodes || Resume

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| || CSI: Miami || Phil Pinkerton|| Episode: "Dead Ringer" ||

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|2012

|NCIS: Los Angeles

|Drunk Guy

|Episode: “Skin Deep”

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  • Anger Management – Canvas (Guest star; "Charlie and the Cheating Patient", "Charlie and the Virgin" and "Charlie Kills His Ex's Sex Life")
  • Bones – Dylan (Episode: "The Body and the Bounty")
  • Boss – Troy
  • CSI Miami – Phil Pinkerton (Episode: "Dead Ringer")
  • General Hospital – J.T. (8 episodes)
  • Gilmore Girls – Brennan Lewis (Episode: "Ted Koppel's Big Night Out")
  • The Middle – Chuck (13 Episodes)
  • Nite Tales: The Series – Surfer (Episode: "Trapped")
  • One on One – Jesse, Butter (Episodes: "Bullock Returns to the Camp", "Suffer the Little Children", "We'll Take Manhattan", "Rock the Vote", "Who Brought the Jive Turkey?", "Mojo No Mo'", "Lock Blockin'", "Rock and a Hard Place" and "Cap and Frown")
  • RoboSplaat! – Splaat
  • Roseanne's Nuts – Himself
  • Taina

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