Misha Collins

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]

Before acting, he interned for four months at the White House during the Clinton Administration in the Office of Presidential Personnel.^[3][11]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Acting roles are in bold.