An actor since his early teens, Andrew Lewis Caldwell has spent more than two decades building one of Hollywood’s most recognizable supporting careers, from Disney Channel guest spots to blockbuster franchises. He has quietly stacked up credits on some of the biggest teen shows of the 2000s and 2010s, popped up in movies like Transformers and The Matrix, and stepped into his biggest spotlight yet playing Megawatt in Spider-Noir. Off-screen, he is a married father of one, and here is everything you need to know about his career, movies, wife, son, and net worth.
Quick Facts
| Category | Details |
|---|---|
| Full Name | Andrew Lewis Caldwell |
| Born | July 25, 1989 |
| Birthplace | Flint, Michigan, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Ethnicity | Irish, Scandinavian, German, and French heritage (self-described) |
| Height | Not publicly disclosed |
| Occupation | Actor, voice actor, acting coach |
| Years Active | 2005 to present |
| Known For | College, Geography Club, Good Luck Charlie, Henry Danger, iZombie, The Matrix Resurrections, Spider-Noir |
| Spouse | Jennifer Caldwell (married January 2022) |
| Children | One son, Lewis John Caldwell (born 2023) |
| Net Worth (estimated) | $300,000 to $600,000 |
Biography
Early Life and Family
Andrew Lewis Caldwell was born on July 25, 1989, in Flint, Michigan, and grew up in the nearby suburb of Grand Blanc. He is sometimes credited as Andrew L. Caldwell. His mother is Donna Caldwell, and his father worked as a police officer in Flint, a job Caldwell has said he looked up to growing up. Both parents have stayed largely out of the public eye despite their son’s career. He also has an older brother named Michael, whom he has described as an avid collector of Funko Pops and wrestling memorabilia. Caldwell has described his own ethnic background as a mix of Irish, Scandinavian, German, and French heritage, with Irish being the strongest part of that mix.
How He Got Into Acting
Caldwell was an athlete before he was an actor, playing football as a nose tackle and wrestling in his early teens. He has given more than one account of what ended that chapter. In an interview on the Boys Podcast, he attributed it to a leg surgery that kept him largely confined to his living room during recovery, while in a Daytime Buffalo segment on WIVB-TV, he pointed to academic ineligibility for football after failing a home economics class, and in a separate appearance on the Actorsphere podcast, he named a failed drama class instead. Either way, he has described the same next step: a school PA announcement about auditions for a play, which he tried out for since eligibility rules did not apply, landing the comic role of a police chief in a small production called Who’s Dying to Be a Millionaire. He said on Actorsphere that the performance convinced him that acting was what he wanted to do, crediting his drama teacher, Pat Nelson, who had reportedly studied under Del Close, a key figure in the development of modern improv and Chicago’s Second City.
On Actorsphere, Caldwell laid out a fairly clear sequence. His school drama teacher told his mother he had real potential, and she entered him in an acting competition in Florida with roughly 2,000 other young performers, where he took first place at around age 15. That win is what convinced his mother to leave her job, sell their house, and move the family from Michigan to Los Angeles so he could pursue acting seriously, a process he said took only about a year and a half from that first school play to booking paid work in California. In an earlier Boys Podcast interview, he cited Chris Farley and Robin Williams as his biggest influences growing up.
Career
Early Roles and Disney Channel Breakthrough
Caldwell’s first notable television appearance came in 2005 on The Bernie Mac Show, followed by small guest spots on shows like Medium and My Name Is Earl. His profile grew in 2007 when he landed the recurring role of Thor, a transfer student from Minnesota, on the second season of Hannah Montana. That same year, he played bully Bubba Bixby in the Nickelodeon television film Shredderman Rules and voiced a teenage version of Fire Lord Roku in an episode of Avatar: The Last Airbender.
Film work followed close behind. Caldwell had small parts in Transformers and Drillbit Taylor before landing his first lead role in the 2008 comedy College, playing Carter Scott opposite Drake Bell. He spent the early 2010s building his voice-acting resume as Howard Weinerman on Disney XD’s Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja, and then starred in the 2013 indie drama Geography Club as Gunnar, a closeted high school athlete.
Disney and Nickelodeon Years
Between 2011 and 2014, Caldwell appeared in several episodes of Disney Channel’s Good Luck Charlie as Billy “Gravy” Graves, a role that still comes up whenever fans revisit the show. He later found a longer-running home at Nickelodeon, playing dim-witted bully Mitch Bilsky across Henry Danger and its spinoff Danger Force between 2015 and 2022. In between, he took on the recurring role of anti-government extremist Harley Johns during the third season of The CW’s iZombie in 2016 and 2017.
The Matrix Resurrections and ALC Acting Studio
Caldwell’s career has since expanded into bigger franchises and new media. He voiced Frank Spicer in the 2021 Arkane Lyon and Bethesda video game Deathloop, and that same year he appeared as Jude Gallagher in The Matrix Resurrections, credited under his full name, Andrew Lewis Caldwell. In an interview on the Actorsphere podcast, he said the project was submitted to him under the code name Project Ice Cream, that he wrote hidden messages into his audition tapes to stand out to director Lana Wachowski, and that when a wildfire near his home threatened to make him miss a callback in San Francisco, he drove himself nine hours each way in a single day rather than risk losing the role. He also said on that podcast that his part was trimmed from a longer version during editing. Separately, on Gary Owen’s #GetSome podcast, he said he appeared in the 2023 Wesley Snipes comedy Back on the Strip, though that credit is not listed in the film’s official trade press coverage or on-screen cast records, so ThrillNG is including it as something Caldwell has stated about his own filmography rather than an independently confirmed credit.
Alongside acting, he founded ALC Acting Studio, running classes for kids, teens, and adults out of the Mel School of Music and Theater at McKinley Mall near Buffalo, New York, where he trains aspiring performers in on-camera work rather than traditional stage acting. The studio ties into a partnership between Casting Buffalo and the Buffalo and New York Film Commission aimed at bringing more major studio productions to the area, with Caldwell positioning his classes to prepare local actors for that work, as he described in interviews on both WIVB-TV’s Daytime Buffalo and the Actorsphere podcast. On Actorsphere, he said the studio grew from seven students when it opened in December to more than 40 within a few months, with a waiting list to get in.
Spider-Noir and Megawatt
In November 2024, Deadline reported that Caldwell had joined the recurring cast of Spider-Noir, an MGM+ and Prime Video series based on the Spider-Man Noir comics, working alongside Nicolas Cage, Brendan Gleeson, and Li Jun Li. Caldwell plays Dirk Leydon, who becomes the electricity-wielding villain Megawatt, a deep cut from the Marvel comics that he said, in an interview on the YouTube channel Half the Picture, was so obscure he did not know who the character was until after he had already booked the role. In that same interview, he described building Megawatt as a frustrated, grandiose theater performer set against the show’s 1930s noir backdrop, a blank-slate approach he credits to the character having no major comics history to match. He also used that interview to push back publicly on comparisons between Megawatt and the better-known villain Electro, noting the two characters and their powers are not the same.
Movies and TV Shows
| Year | Title | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny | Billy Black |
| 2007 | Transformers | Cafe Kid |
| 2008 | Drillbit Taylor | Filkins’ Buddy |
| 2008 | College | Carter Scott |
| 2009 | All About Steve | Young Rescuer |
| 2012 | Scary or Die | Bill Blotto |
| 2013 | Geography Club | Gunnar |
| 2015 | Angel Investors | Fred |
| 2016 | The Sons of Summer | Nick Kosko |
| 2017 | M.F.A. | Ryder |
| 2018 | Unbroken: Path to Redemption | Supporting role |
| 2019 | Haunt | Evan |
| 2021 | The Matrix Resurrections | Jude Gallagher |
| 2023 | Back on the Strip | Unconfirmed role (self-reported) |
| 2021 | Deathloop (video game) | Frank Spicer (voice) |
| TBA | Spring Break ’83 | Mouth |
| Year | Title | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Hannah Montana | Thor |
| 2007 | Shredderman Rules | Bubba Bixby |
| 2007 | Avatar: The Last Airbender | Teen Roku (voice) |
| 2011, 2014 | Good Luck Charlie | Billy “Gravy” Graves |
| 2012 | Victorious | Merl |
| 2012 to 2015 | Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja | Howard Weinerman (voice) |
| 2015 to 2020 | Henry Danger | Mitch Bilsky |
| 2017 | iZombie | Harley Johns |
| 2017 | American Vandal | Cooper Maxwell |
| 2018 | The Librarians | Jeff Peppers |
| 2021 to 2022 | Danger Force | Mitch Bilsky |
| 2022 | Cursed Friends | Josh |
| 2026 | Spider-Noir | Dirk Leydon / Megawatt |
Personal Life
Marriage and Family
Caldwell’s relationship status is settled, not a mystery; he is married, not dating, so there is no current boyfriend or girlfriend to report on. His wife is Jennifer Caldwell, who posts on Instagram as @iamjencaldwell, a handle easy to confuse with accounts belonging to actresses of the same name. The two married in January 2022. She was previously a cheerleader for the Buffalo Bills, which fits with an Instagram bio that still cheers on the team, and she is of roughly half Italian descent, with grandparents who came from Sicily, and the rest German and English, details Caldwell shared in an interview on the Actorsphere podcast. The two share a hobby of making music together with a mutual friend, and Caldwell has described her homemade lasagna, made from her grandmother’s recipe, as one of his favorite meals. The couple’s son, Lewis John Caldwell, was born on July 7, 2023, weighing 9 pounds 7 ounces and measuring 21 inches long, according to a birth announcement Jennifer shared on Instagram. In the same Actorsphere interview, Caldwell said his wife was working on a film while pregnant with their son, and that the baby ended up with an on-screen credit of his own before he was even born. He also said in that interview that the couple relocated from Los Angeles to the Buffalo, New York area to be closer to her family after their son’s birth, a move he described as being about wanting an easier, more community-centered life for his new family rather than a career decision, adding that he only learned about the region’s growing film industry on the drive there.
Hobbies, Interests, and Social Media
Outside of work, Caldwell keeps a Cocker Spaniel named Kyle and a cat named Curtis, named after rapper 50 Cent’s real name, Curtis Jackson, details he shared on the Boys Podcast. He is an avid collector, with a sports card collection worth tens of thousands, including rookie cards of Barry Sanders and Wayne Gretzky, alongside a large comic book and DVD collection. His other main hobby is archery, which he has called one of his lesser-known talents, and he said on the Boys Podcast that he and his wife occasionally write and record original songs together purely for fun rather than as a public music career. Beyond collecting, his most visible personal project is ALC Acting Studio, which he treats less like a side gig and more like a second calling, mentoring performers through his social media accounts and in-person classes in Western New York. He posts as @andrewlewiscaldwell on Instagram, while the studio runs its own account, @alcactingstudio. He has also made frequent guest appearances on YouTube interview shows and podcasts, including the Boys Podcast, WIVB-TV’s Daytime Buffalo, the Actorsphere podcast, Gary Owen’s #GetSome, and Half the Picture, to promote his acting work and the studio.
Health
In an interview on the Actorsphere podcast, Caldwell said he was sidelined for about nine months early in his career by a serious but undisclosed illness that led to a hospitalization during production of his first series-regular television role, a setback that also cost him his representation at the time.
Net Worth
Andrew Lewis Caldwell’s net worth is estimated at between $300,000 and $600,000. That figure is built from what is actually knowable about his income streams over a two-decade career.
Caldwell has never held a lead role on a long-running series, so his television income has largely come from guest and recurring bookings, the kind of work that pays a per-episode rate rather than a weekly series-regular salary. Stack a few thousand dollars per episode across a decade of recurring arcs on Henry Danger, iZombie, and Danger Force, add voice work on Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja and Deathloop, and supporting film paydays from projects like The Matrix Resurrections, and a mid-six-figure range is a reasonable, conservative estimate. His acting studio near Buffalo likely adds a modest but steady stream of income on top of that. His recurring role in Spider-Noir, a series with a considerably bigger budget than most of his past credits, could push that figure higher once 2026 earnings are factored in.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Andrew Caldwell famous for? He is best known for playing Carter Scott in College, Gunnar in Geography Club, Mitch Bilsky on Henry Danger and Danger Force, and for his roles in iZombie and The Matrix Resurrections.
Who is Andrew Lewis Caldwell? He is an American actor and voice actor born on July 25, 1989, in Flint, Michigan, who has worked steadily in film and television since 2005.
Is Andrew Caldwell married? Yes, he married Jennifer Caldwell, a former Buffalo Bills cheerleader, in January 2022.
Does Andrew Caldwell have kids? Yes, he and his wife have a son, Lewis John Caldwell, born on July 7, 2023.
Who does Andrew Caldwell play in Good Luck Charlie? He plays Billy “Gravy” Graves, appearing in three episodes of the Disney Channel series between 2011 and 2014.
How old is Andrew Caldwell? As of mid-2026, Caldwell is 36 years old. He turns 37 on July 25, 2026.
Does Andrew Caldwell make music or have any songs out? Caldwell is not a recording artist. He has said he and his wife occasionally write and record songs together at home with a friend as a hobby, but he has not released any music or has a public discography.
