
Lin-Manuel Miranda
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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 (2005) and Hamilton (2015), as well as the soundtracks for the animated films Moana (2016), Vivo, and Encanto (both 2021). He has received numerous accolades, including a Pulitzer Prize, three Tony Awards, two Laurence Olivier Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, five Grammy Awards, and nominations for two Academy Awards. He received the Kennedy Center Honors in 2018.
Miranda made his Broadway debut in 2008, writing the music and lyrics for and starring in In the Heights, which won the Tony Awards for Best Musical and Best Original Score and the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater 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 for and starring in the musical Hamilton, which was praised by critics and became a widespread cultural phenomenon. Hamilton won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, was nominated for a record 16 Tony Awards, and won 11, including Miranda's first win for the Tony Award 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 earned two Academy Awards for Best Original Song nominations for "How Far I'll Go" and "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 Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. He received a Golden Globe and Primetime Emmy Award nomination for his performance in the Disney+ live stage recording of Hamilton, released in 2020. Miranda debuted as a film director with Tick, Tick...Boom! (2021).
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 Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series. 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. He raised funds for rescue efforts and disaster relief after Hurricane Maria in 2017.
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Known For

Curb Your Enthusiasm

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

House

The Daily Show

The Graham Norton Show

How I Met Your Mother

Saturday Night Live

Tony Awards

The Oscars

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

BoJack Horseman

Drunk History

DuckTales

Smash

Big Mouth

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Late Night with Seth Meyers

The Kelly Clarkson Show

One Day at a Time

Modern Family

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Bluey

The Sopranos

Kids' Choice Awards

The Late Late Show: Carpool Karaoke

Disney's Fairy Tale Weddings

Fosse/Verdon

Song Exploder

Dear...

tick, tick... BOOM!

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

The Skywalker Legacy

His Dark Materials

In the Heights

Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic

Percy Jackson and the Olympians

Moana

The Little Mermaid

The Odd Life of Timothy Green

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

Celebrity Habla

Hamilton: History Has Its Eyes On You

Mary Poppins Returns

We the People

We Are Freestyle Love Supreme

Hamilton

Encanto at the Hollywood Bowl

Vivo
Production Credits

Hamilton

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

Vivo

We Are Freestyle Love Supreme

Tony Awards

The Magic School Bus Rides Again

In the Heights

Mufasa: The Lion King

Moana

Encanto

Hamilton: History Has Its Eyes On You

The Little Mermaid

Encanto at the Hollywood Bowl

Fosse/Verdon

tick, tick... BOOM!
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