Actor, Poet, Television producer, Film director, Screenwriter
Education
Northfield Mount Hermon School
Nationality
United States of America
Spouse
Victoria Vantoch (m. 2001)
Children
West Anaximander Collins, Maison Marie Collins
Parents
Rebecca Tippens, Richard Krushnic
Siblings
Sasha Collins, Elizabeth Collins, Danielle Collins
Nicknames
Dmitri Tippens Krushnic , MiÅ¡a KruÅ¡niÄ , Misha Dmitri Tippens Krushnic , The Supreme Overlord , The Babysitter , The Great Confuser
Awards
Teen Choice Award for Choice TV Chemistry, People's Choice Award for Favorite Sci-Fi/Fantasy TV Actor, People's Choice Award for Favorite TV Bromance, Shorty Award for Best Actor
Nominations
Teen Choice Award for Choice TV: Scene Stealer, Shorty Award for Best in Weird
Movies
Girl, Interrupted, Finding Home, Karla, Reinventing the Wheelers, Over Her Dead Body, The Grift, Stonehenge Apocalypse, Suspicious Bulges, Stranger Danger
TV Shows
Supernatural, Divine: The Series
Star Sign
Leo
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Trademark
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Bright blue eyes
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His quick wit during interviews
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Quote
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I hope this question doesn't sound weird: When you're watching yourself on TV do you occasionally get off the sofa & make out with the screen?
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[on the 2012 apocalypse] Good news! The Mayan calendar ends & we all die tomorrow so we don't have to plan for the future! Hence, I'm not wearing a condom right now! But now that I think of it I never wear condoms when I'm fully clothed & checking my email.
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Fact
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Favorite television series is Damages. Zeljko Ivanek, who starred in the show's first season, is also close friends with Misha.
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He and Supernatural (2005) co-star, Jared Padalecki both use sign language with their children. At the 2012 Salute to Supernatural convention in New Jersey, the two actors joked about their reactions to Signing Time! (2002) and "Baby Signing Time".
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Misha's paternal great-grandfather, Edward Krushnic, was the son of a Russian Jewish father, Joesph Krushnic, and a Hungarian Jewish mother, Ida. The rest of Misha's ancestry is English, German, Scottish, and Irish.
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On April 1st 2013, users of Tumblr changed their icons to a picture of Misha, they referred to this as the 'Mishapocalypse'.
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Their second child, a daughter named Maison Marie, was born September 25, 2012.
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Current Guinness World Record Holder for organizing the world's largest international photo scavenger hunt (The Greatest International Scavenger Hunt the World Has Ever Seen) in November 2011.
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His wife, Victoria, is a writer.
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The name "Misha" is after his mother's Russian ex-boyfriend. This has been his nickname since childhood, so he decided to use it as his stage name.
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When auditioning for Castiel, he was told that he'd be a demon. It wasn't until after he got the part that the creators told him that Castiel was going to be an angel.
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Son, West Anaximander Collins, born September 23rd, 2010.
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On Twitter, he refers to his followers as "minions" and has repeatedly claimed that he has plans for world domination. The minion-founded charity Random Acts is hailed as a first step toward said domination (by kindness).
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House burned down when he was in high school.
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Read Revelation as preparation for role as Castiel.
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Worked as a carpenter to put himself through college.
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Built his own home, and almost all the furniture in it, save for a couple chairs on the deck.
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Spent time at a monastery in Nepal. Still practices Buddhist meditation and goes on a 10 day retreat once a year.
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He is a published poet. Two of his poems; "Baby Pants" and "Old Bones", can be found in the 2008 edition of the Columbia Poetry Review #21.
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