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Lin-Manuel Miranda

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Birthday: 1980-01-16 | Place of Birth: Manhattan, New York, USA

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 co-wrote the songs for Disney's Moana soundtrack (2016) and starred in their recent film, Mary Poppins Returns. 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 (2016). 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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2022
2022
2022
2021
Celebrating America

as    Self

2021
Roll Up Your Sleeves

as    Self

2021
Vivo

as    Vivo (voice)

2020
Hamilton

as    Alexander Hamilton

2020
2020
Siempre, Luis

as    Self

2019
My Favorite Shapes by Julio Torres

as    Cactus (voice)

2019
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles

as    Himself

2018
Mary Poppins Returns

as    Jack

2018
Rock Rubber 45s

as    Self

2017
Residente

as    Himself

2016
Hamilton's America

as    Self

2014
This American Life: Live at BAM

as    Narrator

2013
200 Cartas

as    Raul

2012
The Polar Bears

as    Jak

2008
Britney: For the Record

as    Self