Misha Collins

Dmitri "Misha" Collins is an American actor best known for his role as the angel Castiel on the CW television series Supernatural.

Early life

Misha Collins was born in Boston, Massachusetts. His mother is Rebecca Tippens. He was raised in an irreligious family. Growing up, his family was poor and often homeless. He has said that his surname, Krushnic, "goes back six generations in Canada, and we're not sure where they came from". He is of partial Jewish descent.
Collins attended Greenfield Center School, Northfield Mount Hermon School and the University of Chicago, where he studied social theory.

Career

Interning

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

Acting

His film work includes an uncredited appearance in the 1999 movie Liberty Heights, as well as roles in Girl, Interrupted, Finding Home, Karla, and Loot.
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. He hosted Roadfood: Discovering America One Dish at a Time on PBS, a TV show focused on local foods in America. In 2022, he was cast as Harvey Dent/Two Face in Gotham Knights on the CW.
He has appeared on several podcasts. In 2018, he voiced the role of Adler Harrison in The Angel of Vine, produced by Vox Populi. In 2021, he starred as Jeremy Bradshaw on Bridgewater produced by Grim & Mild.

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.
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.
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.
Collins's poetry book, Some Things I Still Can't Tell You, was published on October 12, 2021, and reached the NYTimes bestseller list.

Charity work

Collins is the co-founder and board president of Random Acts, a non-profit organization dedicated to funding and inspiring acts of kindness around the world. Collins founded the Greatest International Scavenger Hunt the World Has Ever Seen in 2011. 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.
On May 5, 2023, Collins became an ambassador of the United 24 platform.
On May 21, 2024, Collins visited Kyiv, along with American filmmaker Darius Marder. Collins has started a fundraiser for a pyrotechnic machine for humanitarian demining.

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.
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.
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.
Collins self-identifies as an agnostic. 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."

Filmography

Film

Television

Podcasts

Acting roles are in bold.

Year	Title	Role	Air Date	Notes	Episode Title
2012	Winchester Radio	Himself	Nov 11, 2012	Guest Role	Winchester Radio - Special edition with guest Misha Collins
2013	ID10T with Chris Hardwick	Himself	Jul 1, 2013	Guest Role
2014	girl on guy	Himself	February 4, 2014		125: misha collins
2016	Hype Podcast	Himself	Jun 17, 2016	Guest Role	Hype Special #13 – Talking G.I.S.H.W.H.E.S. with Misha Collins
2016	Too Beautiful To Live	Himself	Dec 27, 2016	Guest Role	City of Subdued Podcasting w/ Misha Collins
2018	The Angel of Vine	Adler Harrison	Nov 2018 - Jan 2019	4 Episodes
2019	Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum	Himself	Oct 2, 2019	Guest Role
2019	The Art of Fatherhood	Himself	Nov 5, 2019	Guest Role
2020	The "Doctor Mom" Podcast	Himself	Jan 2020	Guest Role	Raising Adventurous Eaters with Misha and Vicki Collins
2020	Craft Service	Himself	Dec 2020	Guest Role	The Unpredictability of Life ft Misha Collins
2021	Kings of Con: The Podcast	Himself	Jan 27, 2021	Guest Role	Misha Collins and kitchen decor
2021	Alyssa Milano: Sorry Not Sorry	Himself	Jul 12, 2021	Guest Role	Supernatural's Misha Collins on Acting, Activism, and What's Next
2021	Bridgewater	Jeremy Bradshaw	Aug 5, 2021 - Oct 1, 2021	Main Role; 10 Episodes
2022	Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum	Himself	Mar 22, 2022	Guest Role	Misha Collins On Supernatural End, Jared and Jensen, Standing Out, Cult Fans & More