Biography
Lin-Manuel Miranda (born January 16, 1980) is an American composer, lyricist, playwright, and actor best known for creating and starring in the Broadway musicals Hamilton and In the Heights. He was a songwriter for Moana (2016) and Encanto (2021). He also starred in Mary Poppins Returns (2018). Miranda's awards include a Pulitzer Prize, two Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award, a MacArthur Fellowship, and three Tony Awards.
Miranda wrote the music and lyrics for the musical In the Heights, which premiered on Broadway in 2008. For this work, he won the 2008 Tony Award for Best Original Score, the show's cast album won the 2009 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album and the show won the Tony Award for Best Musical. Miranda was also nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his performance in the show's lead role. Miranda prepared Spanish translations used in the 2009 Broadway production of West Side Story and was co-composer and lyricist for Bring It On the Musical, which played on Broadway in 2012. His television work includes recurring roles on The Electric Company (2009–2010) and Do No Harm (2013). He hosted Saturday Night Live in 2016. Among other film work, Miranda contributed music and vocals for a scene in Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015).
Miranda also wrote the book, music and lyrics for another Broadway musical, Hamilton. The show earned the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the 2016 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, and was nominated for a record-setting 16 Tony Awards, of which it won 11, including Best Musical, Best Original Score and Best Book. For his performance in the lead role of Alexander Hamilton, Miranda was nominated for another Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. The Hamilton cast recording spent ten weeks atop Billboard's Top Rap Albums chart in 2015, while The Hamilton Mixtape, an album of covers of songs from the musical, developed by and featuring Miranda, reached number one on the Billboard 200 upon release in December 2016.
Filmography
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Movies 68
self 65
TV Shows 41
Producer 6
Voice 5
Writer 3
Narrator 1
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic (2023)
Percy Jackson and the Olympians (2023)
Disney 100: A Century of Dreams - A Special Edition of 20/20 (2023)
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (2023)
The Little Mermaid (2023)
In The Room: Leigh Sales with Lin-Manuel Miranda (2023)
Jam Van (2023)
Encanto at the Hollywood Bowl (2022)
Broadway Rising (2022)
Take 5 with Zan Rowe (2022)
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022)
Platinum Party at the Palace (2022)
Neptune Frost (2022)
Keeping Company with Sondheim (2022)
Honoring a Broadway Legacy: Behind the Scenes of tick, tick...Boom! (2022)
Reopening: The Broadway Revival (2022)
Betty White: A Celebration (2022)
2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony (2021)
tick, tick... BOOM! (2021)
Encanto (2021)
Alma's Way (2021)
Vivo (2021)
We the People (2021)
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021)
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It (2021)
In the Heights (2021)
Roll Up Your Sleeves (2021)
Celebrating America (2021)
The Candlenights 2020 Special (2020)
A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote (2020)
Song Exploder (2020)
An Evening with Alan Menken (2020)
Hamilton: History Has Its Eyes On You (2020)
Hamilton (2020)
The Undefeated Presents: Hamilton In-Depth (2020)
Dear... (2020)
Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration (2020)
Sesame Street: Elmo's Playdate (2020)
Some Good News (2020)
The Skywalker Legacy (2020)
The Happy Accident (2020)
We Are Freestyle Love Supreme (2020)
Siempre, Luis (2020)
Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado (2020)
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
His Dark Materials (2019)
On Broadway (2019)
The Kelly Clarkson Show (2019)
Tamron Hall (2019)
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles (2019)
My Favorite Shapes by Julio Torres (2019)
Fosse/Verdon (2019)
Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail (2019)
Mary Poppins Returns (2018)
The Wonderful World of Disney: Magical Holiday Celebration (2018)
Mary Poppins Returns: Behind the Magic (2018)
Bluey (2018)
Rock Rubber 45s (2018)
Rapture (2018)
Andrew Lloyd Webber: Tribute to a Superstar (2018)
Bartlett (2018)
Candlelight (2018)
Big Mouth (2017)
DuckTales (2017)
Hamilton: One Shot to Broadway (2017)
Disney's Fairy Tale Weddings (2017)
Speech & Debate (2017)
Residente (2017)
My Brother, My Brother and Me (2017)
Millennials: The Musical (2016)
Moana (2016)
Hamilton's America (2016)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2015)
Crossing the Line to Broadway (2015)
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors (2014)
BoJack Horseman (2014)
This American Life: Live at BAM (2014)
21 Chump Street (2014)
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (2014)
Late Night with Seth Meyers (2014)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2014)
Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013)
Drunk History (2013)
200 Cartas (2013)
Do No Harm (2013)
The Polar Bears (2012)
The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012)
Smash (2012)
A Place for Us - West Side Story's Legacy (2011)
Sesame Street: Wild Words and Outdoor Adventures (2011)
Conan (2010)
Celebrity Habla (2009)
Modern Family (2009)
In the Heights: Chasing Broadway Dreams (2009)
Britney: For the Record (2008)
The Graham Norton Show (2007)
How I Met Your Mother (2005)
House (2004)
Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000)
The Sopranos (1999)
The Daily Show (1996)
Kids' Choice Awards (1987)
Saturday Night Live (1975)
Tony Awards (1956)
The Oscars (1953)
Broadway: The Next Generation
Freestyle Love Supreme
Global Goal: Unite for Our Future—The Concert
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1980-01-16 (44 years old)
Birth PlaceManhattan, United States of America
SpouseVanessa Nadal
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
ResidencesManhattan, United States of America
Also Known As林-曼努尔·米兰达, 林-曼努爾·米蘭達, Лин-Мануэль Миранда
AwardsFellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, star on Hollywood Walk of Fame, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics, Drama League Award, Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical, MacArthur Fellows Program, Tony Award for Best Original Score, Theatre World Award, Clarence Derwent Awards, Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media, Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Audie Award for Best Male Narrator
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