Misha Collins

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Date of birth: August 20, 1974

Birth place: Boston Mass

Eye color: Blue

Height: 5''11

Family: Mother - Rebecca Tippen
Brother - Sasha
Sister - Danielle
Wife - Victoria Vantoch
Son - West Anaximander Collins

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Actor bio: Collins was born: Misha Dmitri Tippens Krushnic on August 20th 1974, in Boston Massachusetts. The origins of the name Misha: came about from a boyfriend his mother had whilst on a trip to Russia she made during her college years. His name was Mitya, but Misha’s mother misunderstood her boyfriend's nickname, and so mistakenly named her son Misha much to his father’s chagrin. And the last name, Krushnic, goes back six generations in Canada although the family are not sure where it came from, Russia, the Ukraine or Poland. Misha’s mother, Rebecca Tippens was a story teller and now runs The Center for Cultural Evolution, AKA The Round House. Misha also has a brother Sasha, three years his junior, and a sister, Danielle eleven years younger. When he was growing up, his family were very poor and were evicted a lot. He was in a new school at least once a year. However, after attending the Greenfield Center School, Misha graduated from Northfield Mount Hermon in 1992. During high school, Misha's house burned down. In the following year, he pursued a wide variety of interests, including: a six month job at NPR headquarters, National Public Radio, in 1995. He worked as a producer and copy writer on a show called "Weekly Edition". It was a job he loved. He also had a White House internship, in the Office of Presidential Personnel in charge of selecting nominees for presidential appointments. In the 90s, there were 3,500 jobs given out by appointment ranging from the Secretary of Agriculture and Ambassadors to low-level jobs. He also worked in construction, and did an EMT certification course. He then went on to the University of Chicago for undergrad, where he studied social theory and spent four years there. He took a year off from college and went to Nepal and Tibet. Spending several months in seclusion at a monastery. It is something he continues to this day but now he simply goes to a monastic retreat “where it’s just silence,” he says. “I go and sit and meditate in silence for 10 days. Don’t talk to anyone, don’t talk about anything – I’m just with myself. It always restores me a little bit. You always learn something about yourself when you spend 10 days alone with yourself.” One thing he’s learned? “I now feel like we have a purpose on the planet, which is kind of a nice feeling to have.” Whilst in Washington, DC he began an internet start-up company that was making educational software, a non-profit summer program for urban teens.

Actor bio: Collins was born: Misha Dmitri Tippens Krushnic on August 20th 1974, in Boston Massachusetts. The origins of the name Misha: came about from a boyfriend his mother had whilst on a trip to Russia she made during her college years. His name was Mitya, but Misha’s mother misunderstood her boyfriend's nickname, and so mistakenly named her son Misha much to his father’s chagrin. And the last name, Krushnic, goes back six generations in Canada although the family are not sure where it came from, Russia, the Ukraine or Poland. Misha’s mother, Rebecca Tippens was a story teller and now runs The Center for Cultural Evolution, AKA The Round House. Misha also has a brother Sasha, three years his junior, and a sister, Danielle eleven years younger.

When he was growing up, his family were very poor and were evicted a lot. He was in a new school at least once a year. However, after attending the Greenfield Center School, Misha graduated from Northfield Mount Hermon in 1992. During high school, Misha's house burned down. In the following year, he pursued a wide variety of interests, including: a six month job at NPR headquarters, National Public Radio, in 1995. He worked as a producer and copy writer on a show called "Weekly Edition". It was a job he loved.

He also had a White House internship, in the Office of Presidential Personnel in charge of selecting nominees for presidential appointments. In the 90s, there were 3,500 jobs given out by appointment ranging from the Secretary of Agriculture and Ambassadors to low-level jobs. He also worked in construction, and did an EMT certification course.
He then went on to the University of Chicago for undergrad, where he studied social theory and spent four years there. He took a year off from college and went to Nepal and Tibet. Spending several months in seclusion at a monastery. It is something he continues to this day but now he simply goes to a monastic retreat “where it’s just silence,” he says. “I go and sit and meditate in silence for 10 days. Don’t talk to anyone, don’t talk about anything – I’m just with myself. It always restores me a little bit. You always learn something about yourself when you spend 10 days alone with yourself.” One thing he’s learned? “I now feel like we have a purpose on the planet, which is kind of a nice feeling to have.”

Whilst in Washington, DC he began an internet start-up company that was making educational software, a non-profit summer program for urban teens.

MISHA COLLINS CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Non-acting careers: White House Intern, Published Poet, Carpenter

Movies:

The Grift ... Jacob
Over Her Dead Body ... Brian
Reinventing the Wheelers ... Joey Wheeler
Karla ... Paul Bernardo
20 Things to do Before Your 30
The Crux ... Man Hanging From Rope
Finding Home ... Dave
Moving Alan ... Tony Derrik
Par 6 ... Al Hegelman
Girl, Interrupted ... Tony
Liberty Heights ... Guy

TV:

Supernatural ... Castiel
Nip / Tuck ... Manny Skerritt
Without a Trace ... Chester Lake
CSI: NY ... Morton Brite
Close to Home ... Todd Monroe
NCIS ... Justin Ferris
Monk ... Michael Korapov
ER ... Bret
CSI ... Vlad
24 ... Elexis Drazen
Seven Days ... Sergei Chumbais
NYPD Blue ... Blake DeWitt
Charmed ... Eric Bragg
Legacy ... Andrew

Awards:

Upcoming projects: Stonehenge Apocalypse ... Jacob

MISHA COLLINS QUOTES

"The philosophical underpinnings of my approach to acting are that there are universal human qualities, and that every character is actually available within each one of us, that if we tap down into that universal humanness, we can find whatever character it is that we need to play already there within ourselves, and it’s just a matter of peeling apart the onion that is you and finding that character within you, because of this universal human quality."
"A lot of times I think the cast members, the lead characters in a show really set the tone for the show. On some shows, the stars of the show will just be whining and complaining and spending the whole time texting their boyfriends on their Blackberries, and there’s just no attention given to the work. Jared and Jensen are very serious about the work, and at the same time they are light and upbeat and sarcastic. They’ve got good senses of humor, and that actually really helps."

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warriorsgirl

MISHA'S COMING BACK!

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Yay, Sera confirmed it!! =D
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Misha is already embarrassing his son...

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Son!

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Have to put his son, in to his "family" :P

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