Born initially as William Brent Unger, Billy Unger is an American actor who is famously recognized for playing Chase on the Disney XD series Lab Rats and its spin-off Lab Rats: Elite Force. Apart from Lab Rats, Billy has also been featured in movies like Ghost Whisper (2010), No Ordinary Family (20111), and A.N.T Farm (2012).
While Brent’s last notable screen appearance was in Lab Rats, a good number of his fellow cast members are still active on the screens. Also, in addition to their acting career, other casts of Lab Rats have explored different sectors of the entertainment business.
Short Biography of Billy Unger
On October 15, 1995, Unger was born in Palm Beach County, Florida. However, in order to pursue his dream of becoming a professional actor, his family later relocated to Hollywood, Los Angeles, in 2006.
Not much is known about his educational and family background but since moving to LA, Unger has starred in Disney XD’s productions including Kickin’ It (2012), National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007), and The Lost Medallion: The Adventures of Billy Stone (2012).
Meanwhile, Billy is married to his longtime girlfriend, Angela Moreno, and the pair have 2 kids together; Devin Unger and River Unger.
He Started Off as a Guest Star
Billy has appeared as a guest in many Disney XD productions since relocating to Los Angeles. Cold Case (2007) and Scrubs (2007) are two of his earlier works. He started appearing in the Disney XD series Lab Rats in 2012 as Chase, the youngest of the super-human bionic youths, and continued to portray the same character in the 2016 season of Lab Rats: Elite Force. The list of his movies and TV shows are listed below.
Billy Unger’s Filmography
- Lab Rats: Elite Force (TV Series) – 2016
- Lab Rats (TV Series) – 2012 to 2016
- Mighty Med (TV Series) – 2015
- The Lost Medallion: The Adventures of Billy Stone – 2013
- A.N.T. Farm (TV Series)- 2012
- Kickin’ It (TV Series) – 2012
- Billion Dollar Freshman (TV Movie) – 2011
- Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception – 2011
- Monster Mutt – 2011
- No Ordinary Family (TV Series) – 2011
- The Invited – 2010
- Sonny with a Chance (TV Series) – 2010
- You Again – 2010
- A Turtle’s Tale: Sammy’s Adventures – 2010
- Ghost Whisperer (TV Series) – 2010
- Jack and the Beanstalk – 2010
- Children of the Corn (TV Movie) – 2009
- Opposite Day – 2009
- Hawthorne – 2009
- Mental (TV Series) – 2009
- Crank: High Voltage – 2009
- Special Agent Oso (TV Series) – 2009
- Rock Slyde – 2009
- Bride Wars – 2009
- Family Guy (TV Series) – 2008
- Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (TV Series) – 2008
- Cop Dog – 2008
- Can You Teach My Alligator Manners? (TV Series) – 2008
- Changeling – 2008
- Medium (TV Series) – 2008
- National Treasure: Book of Secrets – 2007
- Desperate Housewives (TV Series) – 2007
- Seven’s Eleven: Sweet Toys (TV Series) – 2007
- The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (TV Series) – 2007
- Cold Case (TV Series) – 2007
- Scrubs (TV Series) – 2007
What have the Lab Rats cast been up to?
From March 2 through October 22, 2016, Disney XD broadcast the Chris Peterson and Bryant Moore-produced American comedic television series Lab Rats and apart from Billy, Hal Sparks, Spencer Boldman, Kelli Berglund, Tyrel Jackson Williams, and Billy are the other main actors in the series. Meanwhile, Jeremy Kent Jackson, Angel Parker, and Maile Flanagan are the recurring cast of the series.
Here are the Main Cast of the Series and what they have been up to
- Spencer Boldman
The Disney XD series Lab Rats, which debuted in 2012, featured Spencer as Adam, the oldest of the bionic youths. This was his first significant acting job before moving on to appear in the movie 21 Jump Street that same year.
He was later cast in the Disney Channel Original Movie Zapped in 2013, opposite Zendaya, and in the romance movie Cruise, which is set in the 1980s and was released in 2018. Also, Spencer played Lance McCrae in the Hulu limited series Welcome to Chippendales in 2022 and he remains active on the screens to date.
- Kelli Berglund
As a series regular on TLC’s Hip Hop Harry, Kelli, launched her career when she was just a small child. She moved on to make significant appearances in a number of films and TV shows before her appearance on the Disney XD series Lab Rats, and its spinoff Lab Rats: Elite Force.
Also, she portrayed Mae Hartley in the 2014 Disney Channel Original Movie How to Build a Better Boy. Her other screen works are in the 2019 Starz television drama series Now Apocalypse, Going for Gold (2018), and Raising the Bar (2016). Her recent works are in Heels on Starz (2021) and The 2020 Netflix comedy movie Hubie Halloween.
- Tyrel Jackson Williams
Tyrel is an American actor, rapper, and singer who was born on March 16, 1977. His first roles in movies were in the 2006 film Failure to Launch and the 2005 feature The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie.
Also, Williams played a younger Chris, who was portrayed by his elder brother Tyler James Williams, in two episodes of the famous 2005 television series Everybody Hates Chris.
Additionally, he has made national television appearances in ads for brands like Target, Verizon, McDonald’s, Chex Mix, and General Mills.
The actor was later cast in the lead character of Leo, who discovers the existence of the titular bionic heroes, in the Disney XD series Lab Rats in 2011. Some of his most recent works are Hollywood Stargirl (2022) and Party Down (2023).
In the 2016 IFC comedy series Brockmire, Williams played Charles, an online whiz hired to be the assistant to a minor league baseball team and its sports broadcaster (Hank Azaria).
Awa from his acting career, Williams founded the music group “Grouptherapy” with friends Coy Stewart and Jadagrace. On April 1, 2020, the group released their debut EP entitled This is not the album. and later released their debut mixtape, There Goes the Neighborhood. on October 30, 2020.
- Hall Sparks
In addition to being an American actor, Hall is also a stand-up comedian, musician, political analyst, host of television and radio programs, and television personality.
In Dude, Where’s My Car? (2000), he had his first big break in the character of Zoltan, the bubble-wrapped leader of a group of space-obsessed nerds.
Furthermore, Sparks has appeared in a number of movies, including Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star and Spider-Man 2. In Spider-Man 2, Sparks made a brief cameo as the elevator patron who has an embarrassing moment with Spider-Man. He also made an appearance in the opening scene of Mike Judge’s 2009 movie Extract as one of the guitar sellers who was conned out of a guitar by Mila Kunis’s con artist.
In addition to his work as an actor, Hal Sparks also performs as the lead vocalist and guitarist with the rock group ZERO 1 (formerly known as The Hal Sparks Band). More so, Sparks appears as a regular guest and fill-in host on the national Stephanie Miller Radio Show, providing three hours of commentary and humor on Wednesday mornings.
He traveled with Stephanie Miller and John Fugelsang in 2011 for the popular Sexy Liberal Comedy Tour, which stopped in several cities around the nation. The amount of money raised by this tour for regional progressive organizations exceeded one million dollars in ticket sales. The following year, the “Politics, Sex, and Religion Tour” was launched by Sparks and Fugelsang.
On Father’s Day in May 2011, Sparks made the announcement that he would become a father at a Ustream show. At the Los Angeles AIDS Walk in 2011, he made his son Camden Harrison Sparks public.