Lin-Manuel Miranda
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1980-01-16
Place of Birth
Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Biography
Lin-Manuel Miranda (/mænˈwɛl/; born January 16, 1980) is an American songwriter, actor, singer, filmmaker, rapper, and librettist. He created the Broadway musicals In the Heights and Hamilton and the soundtracks for the animated films Moana, Vivo, and Encanto. He has received numerous accolades, including a Pulitzer Prize for Drama, three Tony Awards, two Laurence Olivier Awards, two Emmy Awards, and five Grammy Awards, and nominations for two Academy Awards. He received the Kennedy Centre Honour in 2018. Miranda made his Broadway debut in 2008, writing the music and lyrics for and starring in the musical In the Heights, which won the Tony Award for Best Musical and Best Original Score and the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theatre Album. It was later adapted as a 2021 film of the same name. Miranda returned to Broadway in 2015, writing the script, music, and lyrics and starring in the musical Hamilton, which was praised by critics and became a widespread cultural phenomenon. Hamilton won the Pulitzer Prize and was nominated for a record 16 Tonys and 11, including Miranda's first win for Best Book of a Musical. The Hamilton cast recording spent 10 weeks atop Billboard's Top Rap Albums chart and became the eleventh-biggest album of the 2010s. A frequent collaborator of the Walt Disney Company, Miranda has written original songs for the studio. He won two Oscar nominations for "How Far I'll Go" & "Dos Oruguitas" from Moana and Encanto. Encanto's song "We Don't Talk About Bruno" broke various records. It marked Miranda's first number-one song on the US Billboard Hot 100 and the UK Singles charts. He starred as Jack in the musical fantasy Mary Poppins Returns (2018), for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe. For his performance in the Disney+ live stage recording of Hamilton, which was released in 2020, he received a Golden Globe & Primetime Emmy nomination. Miranda debuted as a film director with Tick, Tick...Boom!. His television work includes recurring roles on The Electric Company (2009–2010) and His Dark Materials (2019–2022). Miranda hosted Saturday Night Live in 2016, & and had a guest role on Curb Your Enthusiasm in 2018; he was nominated twice for the Primetime Emmy. He has been politically active on behalf of Puerto Rico. Miranda met with politicians in 2016 to speak out in favour of debt relief for Puerto Rico & raised funds for rescue efforts and disaster relief after Hurricane Maria in 2017. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lin-Manuel Miranda, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Also Known For
Moana
Oct 13, 2016
tick, tick... BOOM!
Nov 11, 2021
In The Room: Leigh Sales with Lin-Manuel Miranda
Mar 18, 2023
2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Nov 20, 2021
Reopening: The Broadway Revival
Jan 18, 2022
Betty White: A Celebration
Jan 17, 2022
Honoring a Broadway Legacy: Behind the Scenes of tick, tick...Boom!
Jan 19, 2022
On Broadway
Oct 12, 2019
Global Goal: Unite for Our Future | The Concert
Jun 27, 2020
A Place for Us: West Side Story's Legacy
Nov 15, 2011
Platinum Party at the Palace
Jun 04, 2022
Keeping Company with Sondheim
May 27, 2022
Celebrity Habla
Sep 25, 2009
Broadway Rising
Dec 05, 2022
Disney 100: A Century of Dreams – A Special Edition of 20/20
Dec 14, 2023
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
Dec 21, 2023
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
Sep 08, 2022
Crossing the Line to Broadway
Aug 01, 2015
Broadway: The Next Generation
Nov 16, 2017
Encanto at the Hollywood Bowl
Dec 27, 2022
Satisfied
Sep 30, 2025
Mary Poppins Returns
Dec 13, 2018
This American Life: Live at BAM
Jun 20, 2014
200 Cartas
Jun 14, 2013
The Happy Accident
Feb 13, 2020
Millennials: The Musical
Nov 29, 2016
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
Aug 15, 2012
Residente
Mar 11, 2017
Speech & Debate
Apr 07, 2017
Hamilton: One Shot to Broadway
May 09, 2017
The Polar Bears
Dec 31, 2012
Britney: For the Record
Nov 30, 2008
Andrew Lloyd Webber: Tribute to a Superstar
Mar 28, 2018
Rock Rubber 45s
Jun 29, 2018
Hamilton
Sep 05, 2025
Mary Poppins Returns: Behind the Magic
Nov 22, 2018
The Wonderful World of Disney: Magical Holiday Celebration
Nov 28, 2018
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
Aug 23, 2019
In the Heights
Jun 10, 2021
My Favorite Shapes by Julio Torres
Aug 10, 2019
Siempre, Luis
Jan 25, 2020
We Are Freestyle Love Supreme
Jan 28, 2020
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Dec 18, 2019
Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail
Jan 08, 2019
The Skywalker Legacy
Mar 18, 2020
Sesame Street: Elmo's Playdate
Apr 14, 2020
Hamilton: History Has Its Eyes On You
Jul 10, 2020
Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado
Jan 24, 2020
Hamilton's America
Oct 01, 2016
The Undefeated Presents: Hamilton In-Depth
Jul 03, 2020
In the Heights: Chasing Broadway Dreams
May 27, 2009
The Making Of
A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote
Oct 15, 2020
An Evening with Alan Menken
Aug 06, 2020
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
Jun 18, 2021
The Candlenights 2020 Special
Dec 19, 2020
Celebrating America
Jan 20, 2021
Roll Up Your Sleeves
Apr 18, 2021
Vivo
Jul 30, 2021
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Jul 02, 2021
Merrily We Roll Along
You Had to Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution...
Sep 06, 2025
The Sopranos
Jan 10, 1999
DuckTales
Aug 12, 2017
DuckTales
Aug 12, 2017
Dear...
Jun 05, 2020
Tamron Hall
Sep 09, 2019
Drunk History
Jul 09, 2013
The Daily Show
Jul 22, 1996
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Sep 08, 2015
We the People
Jul 04, 2021
Tony Awards
Apr 01, 1956
Tony Awards
Apr 01, 1956
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Feb 25, 2014
Kids' Choice Awards
Jan 18, 1987
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Apr 27, 2014
Modern Family
Sep 23, 2009
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Feb 17, 2014
Take 5 with Zan Rowe
Sep 20, 2022
Big Mouth
Sep 29, 2017
House
Nov 16, 2004
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Sep 09, 2019
My Brother, My Brother and Me
Feb 23, 2017
DuckTales
Aug 12, 2017
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Dec 19, 2023
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Dec 19, 2023
Bartlett
Jan 30, 2018
Do No Harm
Jan 31, 2013
Saturday Night Live
Oct 11, 1975
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Sep 08, 2015
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Sep 17, 2013
Disney's Fairy Tale Weddings
May 07, 2017
Stars in the House
Mar 16, 2020
Smash
Feb 06, 2012
BoJack Horseman
Aug 22, 2014
Saturday Night Live
Oct 11, 1975
How I Met Your Mother
Sep 19, 2005
The Graham Norton Show
Feb 22, 2007
Jam Van
Jan 19, 2023
The Oscars
Mar 19, 1953
Some Good News
Mar 29, 2020
One Day at a Time
Jan 06, 2017
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Oct 15, 2000
His Dark Materials
Nov 03, 2019
Song Exploder
Oct 02, 2020
Conan
Nov 08, 2010
Charlie Rose
Sep 30, 1991
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Dec 21, 2014
Sherri
Sep 12, 2022
Saturday Night Live
Oct 11, 1975
Great Performances
Jan 28, 1971
Difficult People
Aug 05, 2015
DuckTales
Aug 12, 2017
