Misato is 29 years old in the series, and was promoted the
military rank of
Major at
NERV. She served at the NERV branch in
Germany before being transfered to
Tokyo 3.
She lives in her apartment with Shinji Ikari (The Third Child), Asuka Langley Soryu (The Second Child), and a weird warm-water penguin called Pen-Pen. She's famous for her fan service, doubly so for letting Shinji hit that in the End of Evangelion OAV, and IMHO, infamous for not giving Asuka the bitch-slapping she deserved.
And that ASCII art, though very cool, doesn't do her justice.
I'd just like to note that the ADV release on DVD calls the Eva pilots the First/Second/Third/Forth Child when referring to them singularly. However, I've been told by Wigs that GAINAX originally used "Children" instead of "Child." Normally my instinct would be to say "whatever", but I've been downvoted enough as a newbie...