Lin-Manuel Miranda
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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.
Known For
Saturday Night Live
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Curb Your Enthusiasm
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
House
The Daily Show
The Oscars
The Graham Norton Show
How I Met Your Mother
Tony Awards
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
BoJack Horseman
Drunk History
Smash
Big Mouth
DuckTales
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
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
Disney's Fairy Tale Weddings
Fosse/Verdon
Dear...
Song Exploder
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
His Dark Materials
The Skywalker Legacy
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
In the Heights
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
The Little Mermaid
Moana
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
Celebrity Habla
Mary Poppins Returns
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
We the People
Hamilton: History Has Its Eyes On You
Encanto at the Hollywood Bowl
Hamilton
We Are Freestyle Love Supreme
Production Credits
Encanto
Hamilton
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Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Moana
The Little Mermaid
Fosse/Verdon
Encanto at the Hollywood Bowl
Tony Awards
We Are Freestyle Love Supreme
In the Heights
The Magic School Bus Rides Again
Hamilton: History Has Its Eyes On You
Mufasa: The Lion King
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