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Misha Collins
American actor From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Dmitri "Misha" Collins[1] (born Dmitri Tippens Krushnic;[2] August 20, 1974) is an American actor best known for his role as the angel Castiel on the CW television series Supernatural (2008–2020).[3]
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Early life
Misha Collins was born in Boston, Massachusetts. His mother is Rebecca Tippens.[4] He was raised in an irreligious family.[5] Growing up, his family was poor and often homeless.[6][7] He has said that his surname, Krushnic, "goes back six generations in Canada, and we're not sure where they came from".[2] He is of partial Jewish descent.[8]
Collins attended Greenfield Center School, Northfield Mount Hermon School and the University of Chicago, where he studied social theory.[9][10]
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Interning
Before acting, he interned for four months at the White House during the Clinton Administration in the Office of Presidential Personnel.[3][11]
Acting
His film work includes an uncredited appearance in the 1999 movie Liberty Heights,[citation needed] as well as roles in Girl, Interrupted, Finding Home, Karla, and Loot (on which he also served as Associate Producer).[citation needed]
He starred as the angel Castiel on the CW television series Supernatural from 2008 to 2020. Some of his other television credits include Legacy, Charmed, NYPD Blue, 24, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, ER, Monk, and Timeless.[12] He hosted Roadfood: Discovering America One Dish at a Time on PBS, a TV show focused on local foods in America.[13] In 2022, he was cast as Harvey Dent/Two Face in Gotham Knights on the CW.[14][15]
He has appeared on several podcasts. In 2018, he voiced the role of Adler Harrison in The Angel of Vine, produced by Vox Populi.[16] In 2021, he starred as Jeremy Bradshaw on Bridgewater produced by Grim & Mild.[17]
Writing
Collins is a published poet. His poems, including "Baby Pants" and "Old Bones", can be found in the 2008 edition of Columbia Poetry Review #21.[citation needed]
Collins has also co-written a cookbook, The Adventurous Eaters Club, with his wife, Vicki Collins. It is reported that much of the book's sales will go to charitable organizations who specialize in food nutrition.[18]
Collins and Kathryn Leonard, together with several other collaborators, are authors of "The 2D Shape Structure Dataset", an academic research paper on a crowd-sourced database on the structure of shapes.[19]
Collins's poetry book, Some Things I Still Can't Tell You, was published on October 12, 2021,[20] and reached the NYTimes bestseller list.[21]
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Charity work
Collins is the co-founder and board president of Random Acts,[22] a non-profit organization dedicated to funding and inspiring acts of kindness around the world.[23] Collins founded the Greatest International Scavenger Hunt the World Has Ever Seen (GISHWHES) in 2011.[24] Entrance fees for the international competition go towards Random Acts, and in 2012, GISHWHES broke the world record for most pledges to perform an act of kindness.[25]
On May 5, 2023, Collins became an ambassador of the United 24 platform.[26]
On May 21, 2024, Collins visited Kyiv, along with American filmmaker Darius Marder.[27][28] Collins has started a fundraiser for a pyrotechnic machine for humanitarian demining.[29]
Personal life
On October 6, 2001, Collins married Victoria Vantoch in Maine. They have a son born in 2010 and a daughter born in 2012.[30][31]
In the acknowledgments of his 2021 poetry book, Some Things I Still Can't Tell You, Collins stated that he and his wife had separated.[32]
In April 2022, Collins clarified that he is straight after a fan convention appearance led to reports he had appeared to come out as bisexual.[33]
Collins self-identifies as an agnostic.[34] In a 2008 interview, he said that Supernatural showrunner Eric Kripke asked him to read the Book of Revelation as research into Castiel's nature, and he was surprised by the biblical text: "In reading that, I was kind of surprised. There is a lot of destructive capacity in an angel's being."[35][36]
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