Full Name: Misha Dmitri Tippens Krushnic
Date of Birth: August 20, 1974
Place of Birth: Massachusetts, USA
A published poet, Massachusetts-born Misha Collins worked as a White House intern and had a job at National Public Radio in the U.S. before becoming an actor, a career which started with a guest-star role on UPN's Legacy. After guest-starring on Charmed, NYPD Blue and Seven Days, came Collins TV-breakout, with a recurring role on FOX hit series 24, playing Alexis Drazen. Collins could have also be seen on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, ER, Monk, Navy NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service, Close to Home, CSI: New York and Without a Trace. In his current most recent guest-starring role, he played the unforgettable Manny Skerritt on FX's Nip/Tuck.
Collins movies' resume included small roles on Liberty Heights and Girl, Interrupted, as well as roles in small movies, until he landed the lead role of the psychopath, wife-beater, sadistic sexual predator and a manipulative liar Paul Bernardo on the Canadian movie Karla, playing who The Star Phoenix descibed as "the most hated man in Canada." His newest TV movie, Stonehenge Apocalypse, co-starring Hill Harper and Peter Wingfield, aired on Syfy as part of the network 2010-2011 Saturday original movies lineup.
A founding member of the Los Angeles Map and Touring Club, Collins also appeared in Reinventing the Wheelers, co-starring James Brolin, and later landed roles on The Grift and Over Her Dead Body. He also served as a co-producer for the award-winning documentary movie Loot.
In 2008, Collins was casted to play Castiel, an Angel of the Lord, on the CW hit series Supernatural. Originally planned to have a recurring role, Castiel became one of the series most powerful charaters, promoting Collins to a series regular on Supernatural fifth season. It is still unknown whether Collins will be back for the series sixth season.
Collins is married to writer Victoria Vantoch. Their son, West Anaximander Collins, was born Sept 23, 2010.