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Misha Collins (birth name Dmitri Tippens Krushnic) was born August 20, 1974. He grew up in Massachusetts. After attending the Greenfield Center School, Misha graduated from Northfield Mount Hermon in 1992. In the following year, he pursued a wide variety of interests, including a job at NPR headquarters, a White House internship during the Clinton administration, construction work, and an EMT certification course. He then went on to the University of Chicago where he studied social theory. After college, Misha moved to Washington, DC with his partner Victoria Vantoch, a writer, and started an educational software company. Then, on a lark, Misha decided to take an acting class, and soon found himself in the midst of a career change. He got a call for a role in ''Liberty Heights'' (directed by Barry Levinson), and then landed a part in ''Girl, Interrupted''. He moved to Los Angeles soon thereafter, and now has a substantial list of acting credits to his name, including roles on ''24, ER, CSI, Monk, Charmed'' and ''NYPD Blue''.
Having traveled in Russia and mastered the accent, Misha has been called on several times to play Russian characters in television series—most notably the villainous assassin, Alexis Drazen, on ''24''. He has also appeared in seven independent feature films, most notably ''[[Stonehenge Apocalypse]]''. Misha wrote and directed the short film ''[[Stranger Danger]]''as well as served serving as producer on and also acted in the web series ''[[Divine: The Series]]''.
On September 23, 2010, Misha and Vicki welcomed their first child into the world, West Anaximander Collins. Two years later on September 25, 2012, they would have daughter, Maison Marie Collins.
