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| Born | January 16, 1980 New York City, U.S. |
| Education | Wesleyan University (BA) |
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| Years active | 2002–present |
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Vanessa Nadal (m. 2010) |
| Children | 2 |
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| Awards | Full list |
| Website | linmanuel |
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Lin-Manuel Miranda (/mænˈwɛl/ man-WELL; born January 16, 1980)[1] is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, actor, filmmaker 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, along with nominations for two Academy Awards. He received the Kennedy Center Honor 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[2] and the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album.[3] It was later adapted as a 2021 film of the same name.[4] Miranda returned to Broadway in 2015, writing the script, music, and lyrics, as well as starring in the musical Hamilton, which was praised by critics and became a popular culture phenomenon.[5] Hamilton won the Pulitzer Prize and was nominated for a record 16 Tonys and won 11, including Miranda's first win for the 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.[6]
A frequent collaborator of the Walt Disney Company, Miranda has written original songs for the studio. He gained two Oscar nominations for "How Far I'll Go" and "Dos Oruguitas" from Moana and Encanto, respectively. The song "We Don't Talk About Bruno" from Encanto broke various records and marked Miranda's first number-one song on the US Billboard Hot 100 and the UK Singles charts.[7][8] 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 released in 2020, he received a Golden Globe and Primetime Emmy nomination. Miranda debuted as a film director with Tick, Tick...Boom!.[9]
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 once for the Primetime Emmy. He has been politically active on behalf of Puerto Rico.[10] Miranda met with politicians in 2016 to speak out in favor of debt relief for Puerto Rico[10] and raised funds for rescue efforts and disaster relief after Hurricane Maria in 2017.[11]
Early life and education
Miranda was born on January 16, 1980, in New York City to Luz Towns-Miranda, a clinical psychologist, and Luis Miranda Jr., a political consultant.[1][12] He is of predominantly Puerto Rican descent and also has distant Mexican, English, and African American ancestry.[13][14][15] His parents named him "Lin-Manuel" after a poem about the Vietnam War by Puerto Rican writer José Manuel Torres Santiago entitled "Nana roja para mi hijo Lin Manuel" ("Red Lullaby for My Son Lin Manuel").[16][17] Miranda grew up in the Inwood neighborhood of Manhattan and was raised as a Catholic.[1][18][19][20][21] During childhood and his teens, Miranda spent at least one month each year with his grandparents in Vega Alta, Puerto Rico.[22][23] Miranda has one older sister, Luz, who is the Chief Financial Officer of the MirRam Group, a strategic consulting firm in government and communications.[24]
Miranda attended Hunter College Elementary School and Hunter College High School.[25] Among his classmates was Chris Hayes, now a journalist. Hayes was Miranda's first director when he starred in a school play, which was described by Hayes as "a 20-minute musical that featured a maniacal fetal pig in a nightmare that [Miranda] had cut up in biology class".[26] His classmates also included rapper Immortal Technique, who had bullied Miranda, although the two later became friends.[27][28] Miranda began writing musicals at school.[29]
Miranda wrote the earliest draft of what would become his first Broadway musical, In the Heights, in 1999, during his sophomore year of college at Wesleyan University.[29] After the show was accepted by Wesleyan's student theater company, Second Stage, Miranda added freestyle rap and salsa numbers, and the show was premiered there in 1999.[23] Miranda wrote and directed several other musicals at Wesleyan and acted in many other productions, ranging from musicals to William Shakespeare. He graduated from Wesleyan in 2002.[23][30]
Career
Theater
2002–2011: In The Heights
In 2002, Miranda and John Buffalo Mailer worked with director Thomas Kail to revise In the Heights.[23][12][29] Playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes joined the team in 2004.[31][29] After premiering in Connecticut in 2005 and opening at the 37 Arts Theater off-Broadway in 2007, the musical went to Broadway, opening in March 2008.[23]
It was nominated for 13 Tonys, winning four, including Best Musical and Best Original Score.[2][29] It also won the Grammy.[3] Miranda's performance in the leading role of Usnavi earned him a nomination for a Tony. Miranda left the cast of the Broadway production on February 15, 2009.[32]
Miranda reprised the role when the national tour played in Los Angeles from June 23 to July 25, 2010.[33][34] He again joined the tour in San Juan, Puerto Rico.[35] Miranda rejoined the cast as Usnavi from December 25, 2010, until the production closed on January 9, 2011, after 29 previews and 1,185 regular performances.[36]
Miranda created other work for the stage during this period. He wrote Spanish-language dialogue and worked with Stephen Sondheim to translate into Spanish song lyrics for the 2009 Broadway revival of West Side Story.[37][38][29] During this time, he also performed at bar and bat mitzvahs.[29] In 2008, he was invited by composer-lyricist Stephen Schwartz to contribute two new songs to a revised version of Schwartz and Nina Faso's 1978 musical Working, which opened in May 2008 at the Asolo Repertory Theatre in Sarasota, Florida.[39]
During these years, Miranda worked as an English teacher at his former high school, wrote for the Manhattan Times as a columnist and restaurant critic, and composed music for commercials.[40]
In 2003, Miranda co-founded Freestyle Love Supreme,[41] a hip hop improv group that has toured the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, as well as the Aspen, Melbourne and Montreal Comedy festivals. The group created a limited television series for Pivot in 2014[42] and made its Broadway debut[43] on October 2, 2019, at the Booth Theatre. The self-titled show gained positive reviews.[44]
2011–2014: Bring It On and other theatrical work
Miranda co-wrote the music and lyrics for Bring It On with Tom Kitt and Amanda Green. It premiered at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia in January 2011.[45] The musical began a US national tour on October 30, 2011, in Los Angeles, California.[46][47] It played a limited engagement on Broadway at the St. James Theatre, beginning previews on July 12, and officially opening on August 1, 2012. It closed on December 30, 2012. It was nominated for Tony Awards in the categories of Best Musical and Best Choreography.[48]
In February 2012, Miranda appeared in Merrily We Roll Along, in the role of Charley, in an Encores! staged concert at New York City Center.
His theatrical achievements in 2014 included an Emmy for the song "Bigger!", which he and Kitt co-wrote for the opening number at the 67th Tony Awards.[49]
Miranda wrote music and lyrics for the one-act musical 21 Chump Street, and performed as narrator for the show's single performance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on June 7, 2014. It was broadcast on National Public Radio's This American Life on June 20, 2014.[50] Later that month, he starred in the June 2014 Encores! revival of Jonathan Larson's Tick, Tick... Boom!, under the artistic direction of Jeanine Tesori. The show was directed by Oliver Butler.[51]
Earlier in 2014, he guest starred in a show by comedy duo The Skivvies.[52]
2011–2016: Hamilton
While on vacation in 2008, Lin-Manuel Miranda had read Ron Chernow's biography of Alexander Hamilton. Inspired by the book, he wrote a rap about Hamilton that he performed for the White House Evening of Poetry, Music, and the Spoken Word on May 12, 2009, accompanied by Alex Lacamoire. Miranda later said he spent a year writing the Hamilton song "My Shot", revising it countless times so that every verse would reflect Alexander Hamilton's intellect.[53][16] By 2012, Miranda was performing an extended set of pieces based on the life of Hamilton, which he referred to as the Hamilton Mixtape. The New York Times called it "an obvious game changer".[54]
Hamilton premiered off-Broadway at The Public Theater in January 2015, directed by Thomas Kail. Miranda wrote the book and score, and starred as the title character.[55][56] The show received highly positive reviews,[57] and its engagement was sold out.[58] Chernow and Miranda received the 2015 History Makers Award from the New York Historical Society for their work in creating the musical.[59] The show began previews on Broadway in July 2015 at the Richard Rodgers Theatre and officially opened on August 6, 2015,[60] earning positive reviews.[61] On the first night of Hamilton previews, over 700 people lined up for lottery tickets.[62] The Hamilton ticket lottery evolved into Ham4Ham, a series of outdoor mini-performances for lottery participants that was hosted daily by Miranda and cast members for over a year, until August 31, 2016.[63]
Miranda earned a 3% royalty on each performance of Hamilton, earning him $12.7 million by July 2017.[64][65] Hamilton won the Tony Award for Best Musical; Miranda won Tonys for Best Original Score and Best Book Of A Musical, and was nominated for Best Actor in a Musical. Miranda won a Pulitzer for the musical, and the cast album won the Grammy. In May 2016, for his work in the role of Alexander Hamilton, Miranda received the Drama League Distinguished Performance Award.[66]
On March 15, 2016, members of the cast of Hamilton performed at the White House and hosted workshops; Miranda performed freestyle rap from prompts held up by President Obama.[67] In April 2016, Miranda and Jeremy McCarter published Hamilton: The Revolution, a book describing Hamilton's journey from conception to Broadway success. It also discusses the sense of cultural revolution that permeates the show.[68]
Miranda gave his last performance in Hamilton on July 9, 2016,[69] but vowed to return to the show.[70] In 2017, he announced that he would reprise the role for one night in celebration of President Obama's commutation of the sentence of Oscar López Rivera.[71]
A documentary about the creation of the show, Hamilton's America, featuring Miranda, premiered at the New York Film Festival on October 1, 2016, and first aired on PBS' Great Performances series on October 21, 2016.[72][73] A taping of the OBT version of Hamilton was released on Disney+ on July 3, 2020.
On January 24, 2016, Miranda performed the offstage cameo role of Loud Hailer in the Broadway production of Les Misérables,[74] fulfilling his childhood dream of being in the show, as it was the first production he ever saw on Broadway.[75]
2019–present: Return to theatre
In January 2019, Miranda reprised the title role in Hamilton for a three-week limited engagement at the Luis A. Ferré Performing Arts Center in Puerto Rico from January 11–27, 2019, for which the engagement was sold out in three hours in November 2018.[76][77] In a review, Chris Jones praised "deeper on-stage emotions" in Miranda's reprisal, as well as improved vocal and dance technique than on Broadway.[78] In March that same year he played King Arthur in a benefit concert of Camelot at Lincoln Center opposite Solea Pfeiffer and Jordan Donica.[79]
In 2023, he wrote additional lyrics for the Broadway musical New York, New York.[80]
In August 2023, it was reported that he had begun work on a stage musical adaptation of the novel The Warriors (which was formerly adapted into the 1979 film).[81] Miranda worked with Eisa Davis on a concept album based on the novel titled Warriors, which was released on October 18, 2024.[82]
Film
2012–2014: Early work
Miranda made his feature film debut in the Walt Disney Pictures live-action film The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012).[83][84]
2015–present: Disney projects and directorial debut
Miranda interviewed with Disney in the winter of 2013. He submitted a six-song demo package to Walt Disney Animation Studios.[85] This began a series of collaborations with the company:
- Moana – In the spring of 2014, the studio hired Miranda to help write and perform music for Moana, its 2016 animated feature film.[85][86] From 2014 to 2016, Miranda collaborated with Opetaia Foa'i and Mark Mancina on the songs for Moana.[87] He later explained that because he was so busy with Moana and Hamilton, he turned down other projects "that would have distracted" him, but this served as an "ego check" as Hamilton became a hit.[85] Moana opened in November 2016 and was a box office hit, earning positive reviews and praise from critics for Miranda's songwriting.[88][89][90] Miranda also sang the song "We Know the Way" in the film, and recorded a duet with Jordan Fisher of the song "You're Welcome", which was played over the film's end credits.[91] For the song "How Far I'll Go", Miranda won a Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media,[92] and received Golden Globe, Critics' Choice, and Oscar nominations.[93][94][95]
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens – While working on Hamilton, Miranda contributed music for the Disney-distributed film Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), writing a song for the scene in Maz Kanata's cantina, an homage to the classic Mos Eisley Cantina scene and song by Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes.[96]
- DuckTales – Miranda debuted in May 2018 as the voice of Fenton "Gizmoduck" Crackshell-Cabrera in Disney Channel's 2017 reboot of DuckTales, and made recurring appearances throughout the show's run.[97]
- Mary Poppins Returns – Miranda plays Jack, a lamplighter, and former apprentice to Bert, the chimney sweep played by Dick Van Dyke in the original 1964 film Mary Poppins. This was his first major role after leaving the Broadway cast of Hamilton. Miranda traveled to London in 2017 to shoot his scenes for the film,[85][98] directed by Rob Marshall, which was released in December 2018.[98][99]
- Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – Following his work on The Force Awakens, Miranda contributed music for the Disney-distributed film Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019), writing a song for the scene on the desert planet Pasaana, in addition to making a cameo appearance as a Resistance trooper.[100]
- The live stage recording of the original Broadway production of Hamilton was acquired by Walt Disney Pictures and released on Disney+ on July 3, 2020.[101][102]
- Encanto – Miranda collaborated again with Walt Disney Animation Studios on an animated musical titled Encanto directed by Jared Bush and Byron Howard, with Charise Castro Smith co-directing. The film was released on November 24, 2021.[103][104] The soundtrack was a success; the song "We Don't Talk About Bruno" rose to number one on the US Billboard Hot 100, and Miranda received an Academy Award for Best Original Song nomination for the song "Dos Oruguitas".
- The Little Mermaid – In August 2016, Miranda agreed to write songs with Alan Menken for Disney's forthcoming live-action remake of The Little Mermaid.[105] Miranda co-produced the film with Marc Platt and Rob Marshall, the latter of whom directed.[105] Menken announced in July 2017 that he and Miranda had begun working on new songs for the project.[85][106] Miranda and Menken wrote four new songs for The Little Mermaid, which had been recorded by April 2020.[107] The film was released in theaters on May 26, 2023.[108]
- Mufasa: The Lion King – Miranda is a longtime fan of The Lion King (1994) and was eager to work on this prequel/sequel to the 2019 live-action adaptation of that film, but director Barry Jenkins had to first wait six months for him.[109] Miranda was too busy in the second half of 2021 with finishing the songs for Encanto, editing his first feature film as a director and doing press interviews to promote In The Heights, Vivo and Encanto (all released in 2021).[109] He got started on writing the songs for Mufasa at the beginning of 2022.[110] This timing conflict explains why in the meantime, Disney Animation chose to recruit Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear to write the songs for what was then planned as a direct-to-streaming series and eventually became the feature-length sequel Moana 2 (2024).[110] Miranda and Jenkins appeared together at D23: The Ultimate Fan Event in Anaheim, California on August 10, 2024, to present the full theatrical trailer for Mufasa.[111] Although Miranda by that point had already been working with Disney for a decade, this was his first in-person appearance at a D23 event.[111] The film premiered on December 20, 2024.[112]
A feature film adaptation of In the Heights spent many years in development. On November 7, 2008, Universal Pictures announced that they planned to adapt it as a film for release in 2011.[113] However, the project was canceled in March 2011,[114] reportedly due to the fact Universal was looking for a "bankable Latino star" like Shakira or Jennifer Lopez instead of unknown actors.[115] In January 2012, Miranda stated that the film adaptation was back under discussion;[116] in May 2016, it was announced that Miranda would co-produce the film with Harvey Weinstein and backing from The Weinstein Company.[117] On June 10, 2016, Jon M. Chu came on board to direct the film adaptation of the musical.[118] In the aftermath of numerous sexual misconduct allegations made against Weinstein, his producer credit on the film was removed, with the rights to the film eventually auctioned off to Warner Bros. for $50 million.[119] While Miranda originated the role of Usnavi, he felt he was too old to star as Usnavi in the film adaptation. Ultimately, Miranda played the smaller role of Piraguero, the "Piragua Guy", in the film. He was quoted as saying the Broadway production was "...a miraculous experience. I went from substitute teacher to Broadway composer. I will never make a leap that big again in my life. I was very content to let Anthony Ramos and this incredible cast have their own experience."[120] Miranda also served as producer and acted alongside Anthony Ramos,[121] Corey Hawkins,[122] Leslie Grace,[123] and Jimmy Smits.[124] The film was set for release on June 26, 2020,[125] but was pulled from the schedule due to the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on the film industry.[126] It was released in theaters and temporarily on HBO Max on June 10, 2021.[127]
Imagine Entertainment announced in July 2018 that Miranda would make his debut as a film director with an adaptation of Jonathan Larson's semi-autobiographical musical Tick, Tick... Boom!, to be scripted by Dear Evan Hansen librettist Steven Levenson.[128][129] Miranda produced the film alongside Ron Howard and Brian Grazer:[129] it was released on Netflix in 2021.[130][131] The same year, Miranda starred as the titular character in addition to providing eleven songs and serving as an executive producer for Vivo, a Sony Pictures Animation film directed by Kirk DeMicco which was released on Netflix in August 2021.[132][133][134] Miranda agreed in 2016 to serve as executive producer and composer of Lionsgate's film adaptation of The Kingkiller Chronicle by Patrick Rothfuss, as well as a tie-in television series.[135][136] In 2022, it was revealed that he was no longer attached to the project.
Television
2007–2013: Early roles
Miranda also worked in television. In 2007, he made a small appearance on the television series The Sopranos in the episode "Remember When",[137] and in 2009, he played Juan "Alvie" Alvarez, Gregory House's roommate in a psychiatric hospital, in the two-hour season six premiere episode of House; he returned to the role in May 2010. For Sesame Street, he occasionally played roles and sang the theme song to the recurring segment Murray Has a Little Lamb.[138] He was a composer and actor on the 2009 PBS Kids Go! revival of The Electric Company[139][140] and appeared in the CollegeHumor sketch "Hardly Working: Rap Battle", playing himself working as an intern and rapper.[141]
He played several television roles during this period. He appeared on the TV series Modern Family in the 2011 episode "Good Cop Bad Dog".[142] In 2013, he played the recurring role of Ruben Marcado in the NBC drama Do No Harm.[143] He later appeared in the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, in an all-verse episode titled "Bedtime Stories" that aired in November 2013.[144]
2016–present: Comedy roles and other projects
On April 24, 2016, on the TV show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, at the end of a segment about the debt crisis in Puerto Rico, Miranda performed an emotional rap about allowing the island to restructure its debt.[145] Miranda hosted Saturday Night Live on October 8, 2016, and played himself in two episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm in 2017, receiving Emmy Award nominations for both appearances.[146] In 2019, Miranda was the guest narrator at Disney's Candlelight Processional at Disneyland.[147] Miranda performed the theme song for the Netflix original series The Magic School Bus Rides Again, the revival and sequel series of the 1994 series The Magic School Bus. He played the part of Amy's brother (David Santiago) in the episode "The Golden Child" in Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
In 2019, Miranda served as an executive producer on the FX limited series Fosse/Verdon based on the relationship of Broadway dancer, choreographer, and director Bob Fosse and his wife dancer Gwen Verdon. Miranda also made a brief appearance playing Roy Scheider from All That Jazz. The series won critical acclaim, and Miranda was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series as an executive producer.
Miranda was cast as Lee Scoresby in the BBC series television adaptation of His Dark Materials (2019–2022).[148] Daniel Fienberg of The Hollywood Reporter praised Miranda in his review writing, "[While] I appreciate that Miranda feels initially miscast as Pullman's paragon of cowboy American masculinity...[he] forces you to reconstruct an image of American manliness around him, making him exactly what the series needs".[149]
On July 29, 2019, it was announced that Miranda had teamed with TV producer Norman Lear to make an American Masters documentary about the life of Puerto Rican actress Rita Moreno, titled Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It.[150] It premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. Miranda, in collaboration with Brittany Howard, Daveed Diggs, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, and Robert Lopez, wrote the lyrics for the song "Checks and Balances", which was sung by Benjy Brooke for the 2021 Netflix animated series We the People.[151]
Miranda appears in Percy Jackson and the Olympians, which premiered on Disney+ on December 19, 2023, as Hermes, messenger of the gods, for the first time on season 1 episode 3 and a few times after.[152]
Music
Miranda was listed as a producer on the track "Peanuts 2 N Elephant" from Lil Wayne's fourteenth solo studio album, Tha Carter VI. He provided backing vocals for several tracks on the 2025 Mountain Goats album Through This Fire Across from Peter Balkan.[153]
Personal life
Family
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Miranda and his wife, Vanessa Nadal, attended high school together and married in 2010. Nadal is a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Fordham University School of Law. She was a lawyer at the law firm Jones Day from 2010 to 2016.[154] At the wedding reception, Miranda, along with the wedding party, performed the Fiddler on the Roof song "To Life".[155][156] His wife is Dominican and Austrian, which gave him some German language familiarity when collaborating on the German translation of Hamilton.[157][158]
Miranda and Nadal have two sons: Sebastian (b. 2014) and Francisco (b. 2018).[159][160] His son Sebastian was named after the Jamaican crab from The Little Mermaid, one of his favorite films, the reason for which he took the job of composing the music for the live-action version.[161] Sebastian was the first name listed in the production babies credits of Moana, for which Miranda wrote the songs.[162] Miranda said Sebastian was bilingual in English and Spanish, and also knew some German. Miranda's son Francisco is listed as a production baby in the credits for Vivo.[163]
Miranda discovered that he is related to artists Residente and iLe of Calle 13 during a 2009 concert by the group in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where Miranda was invited to perform. Backstage, the mother of Residente and ILE revealed their connection to Gilberto Concepción de Gracia, founder of the Puerto Rican Independence Party.[164][165][166] Miranda and Residente have since confirmed the relationship.[167][168][169][170] In 2017, Miranda performed on the opening track of Residente's self-titled debut album.[171]
Miranda is a cousin of professional baseball player José Miranda.[172]
Activism
After a meeting with President Barack Obama in March 2016,[173] Miranda joined U.S. Senators Kirsten Gillibrand, Chuck Schumer, Elizabeth Warren, and other Democratic lawmakers to call for congressional action to back a Senate bill in Washington that would allow Puerto Rico to declare bankruptcy and significantly ease its $70 billion government-debt burden.[174] Miranda was particularly active in the wake of Hurricane Maria's devastation in Puerto Rico,[10][11] and by December 2017, proceeds from his song "Almost Like Praying" helped the Hispanic Federation raise $22 million for rescue efforts and disaster relief.[175][176]
Miranda used proceeds from Hamilton to support Graham Windham, a nonprofit adoption agency founded by Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton.[177] Miranda performed at their fundraising gala benefits in New York City to help fundraise for children in foster care.[178]
He performed "Found/Tonight" with Ben Platt at the March for Our Lives anti-gun violence rally in Washington, D.C., on March 24, 2018.[179][180]
In order to raise money for Puerto Rico's reconstruction after being struck by hurricanes Irma and María, including at least $15 million to be channeled through the Flamboyán Foundation, Miranda decided to take Hamilton to his father's native Puerto Rico, reprising his role as the protagonist. Miranda's family donated approximately $1 million to bring the University of Puerto Rico theater up to par in order to use it as the venue for the musical's performance in January 2018. After tickets sold out in two hours for the three-week run, producers decided to move out of the university venue due to warnings of potential disruptions by a university workers' labor organization, and move the already-installed set to the Luis A. Ferré Performing Arts Center in Santurce, where the performances ran from January 11 to January 27. The production donated additional hundreds of thousands of dollars in improvements to the Ferré Performing Arts Center.[181]
In 2016, Miranda advocated for the passing of the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA), a law setting out to restructure the debt of Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria.[182] The law led to budget cuts resulting in the closure of over 200 public schools, cuts to government labor benefits, and budget cuts at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR). It was met with protests, with UPR shutting down due to student strikes over the measures in 2017. Miranda became a target of criticism, especially when he performed Hamilton in Puerto Rico, given his lobbying on the bill as well as the musical's subject matter of the United States which many Puerto Ricans see as an oppressor of the island.[183] During the post show, Miranda met with protestors explaining that he had seen PROMESA as the only bipartisan option for the debt crisis previously, he does not support the austerity measures introduced and that he believes full debt-relief should now be pursued.[184] Subsequently, he has argued for full debt-relief for the island[185] and noted that the 2016 act has not led to the promised relief.[186]
Awards and honors
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 Playwright, Composer, and Performer Lin-Manuel Miranda, 2015 MacArthur Fellow, MacArthur Foundation[187] |
Among his numerous accolades, Miranda has won a Pulitzer Prize, five Grammys, three Tony Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and two Olivier Awards and has been nominated for two Academy Awards. In 2015, he was the recipient of a Genius Grant from the MacArthur Fellows Program. In 2016, Time magazine included Miranda in its annual Time 100 as one of the "Most Influential People in the World" and he received a star on the Puerto Rico Walk of Fame.[188][189] Miranda received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on November 30, 2018.[190] In December 2018, he received the Kennedy Center Honors for creating Hamilton.[191]
In 2015, Miranda was the recipient of Smithsonian Magazine's American Ingenuity Award in the History category.[192] In 2019, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery awarded Miranda the Portrait of a Nation prize.[193] The Hamilton Mixtape, a cover album by Miranda, further reached number one on the Billboard 200.
Honorary degrees
Miranda received an honorary degree in 2009 from Yeshiva University in Washington Heights, Manhattan, becoming the youngest person to receive an honorary degree from that university.[194] Ed Koch, former mayor of New York City, presented Miranda with the degree.[195]
He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters in 2015 from his alma mater, Wesleyan University,[196] and gave their commencement address.[197] In May 2016, he received an honorary Doctorate of the Arts from the University of Pennsylvania and gave the commencement speech.[198] In July 2016, The University of Puerto Rico granted him a doctorate, honoris causa.[199] In July 2022, he received an honorary doctorate from the Royal Academy of Music in London, England.[200]
Works
Theatre
| Year | Title | Role | Details | Notes |
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| 1999 | In The Heights | Usnavi de la Vega | Wesleyan University, April 20–22 | Also composer and lyricist |
| 2005 | Unknown, Workshop | |||
| N/a | Eugene O'Neill Theater Center | |||
| 2007 | Usnavi de la Vega | Off-Broadway, February 8 – July 15, 2007 | ||
| 2008–09 | Broadway, February 14, 2008 – February 15, 2009 | |||
| 2009 | West Side Story | N/a | Broadway revival | Spanish translations |
| 2010 | In The Heights | Usnavi de la Vega | US tour, June 22 - July 25, 2010 | Also composer and lyricist |
| 2010–11 | Broadway, December 25, 2010 – January 9, 2011 | |||
| 2011 | Working | N/a | Chicago revival | Wrote two new songs |
| 2012 | Merrily We Roll Along | Charley Kringas | Encores!, February 8–9, 2012 | |
| Bring It On | N/a | Broadway on tour | Co-composer and lyricist | |
| 2013 | In The Heights | Usnavi de la Vega | United Palace of Cultural Arts | Also composer and lyricist |
| Hamilton | Alexander Hamilton | Vassar College, Workshop | Also created book, music, and lyrics | |
| 2014 | The 52nd Street Project, Workshop | |||
| 21 Chump Street | Narrator | Brooklyn Academy of Music, June 7, 2014 | ||
| Tick, Tick... Boom! | Jonathan | Encores!, June 25–28, 2014 | ||
| 2015 | Hamilton | Alexander Hamilton | Off-Broadway, January 20 – May 3, 2015 | Also created book, music, and lyrics |
| 2015–16 | Broadway, August 6, 2015 – July 9, 2016 | |||
| 2016 | Les Misérables | Loud Hailer | Broadway, January 24, 2016[74] | Voice only |
| 2019 | Hamilton | Alexander Hamilton | Luis A. Ferré Performing Arts Center, January 11–27, 2019 | Limited engagement; also created book, music, and lyrics |
| Camelot | King Arthur | Broadway, March 4, 2019 | ||
| 2019–20 | Freestyle Love Supreme | Himself | Broadway, October 2, 2019 – January 12, 2020 | Selected performances |
| 2021–22 | Broadway, October 19, 2021 – January 2, 2022 | |||
| 2023 | New York, New York | N/a | Broadway, March 24 - July 30, 2023 | Additional lyrics |
| Gutenberg! The Musical! | The Producer | Broadway, October 19, 2023 | One night cameo | |
| 2025 | All In | Performer | Broadway, January 14 – February 16, 2025 |
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Clayton's Friends | Pete | Also Writer, Director, Editor, and Producer |
| 2012 | The Odd Life of Timothy Green | Reggie | |
| The Polar Bears | Jak (voice) | Short film | |
| 2013 | 200 Cartas | Raúl | |
| 2015 | Star Wars: The Force Awakens | Shag Kava (voice) | Cameo appearance Also special featured composer and lyricist |
| 2016 | Studio Heads | Himself | Short film |
| Moana | N/a | Composer, lyricist and singer | |
| 2017 | Speech & Debate | The Genie | |
| 2018 | Mary Poppins Returns | Jack | |
| 2019 | Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker | Resistance Soldier | Cameo appearance; also special featured composer and lyricist |
| 2020 | Hamilton | Alexander Hamilton | Also writer, composer, lyricist and producer |
| Siempre, Luis | Himself | Documentary | |
| Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado | |||
| 2021 | Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It | Documentary; also executive producer | |
| In the Heights | Piragüero | Also composer, lyricist and producer | |
| Summer of Soul | Himself | Documentary | |
| Vivo | Vivo (voice) | Also composer, lyricist and executive producer | |
| Tick, Tick... Boom! [131] | Moondance cook | Cameo appearance; also director and producer | |
| Encanto [201][202] | N/a | Composer, lyricist and story writer | |
| 2022 | Weird: The Al Yankovic Story | Doctor | |
| Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe [203] | N/a | Producer | |
| 2023 | The Little Mermaid | N/a | Lyricist and producer |
| 2024 | Mufasa: The Lion King | N/a | Composer and lyricist |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | The Sopranos | Bellman | Episode: "Remember When" |
| 2009–2011 | Sesame Street | Freddy Flapman Lamb-Manuel Miranda |
2 episodes; also composer and lyricist |
| 2009–2010 | House | Juan "Alvie" Alvarez | 3 episodes |
| The Electric Company | Mario / Himself | 17 episodes; also composer | |
| 2011 | Modern Family | Guillermo | Episode: "Good Cop Bad Dog" |
| 65th Tony Awards | N/a | Awards show; writer of the closing rap number | |
| 2012 | Submissions Only | Auditioner #1 | Episode: "Another Interruption" |
| Freestyle Love Supreme | Himself | TV series; also lyricist | |
| 2013 | Do No Harm | Ruben Marcado | 11 episodes |
| Smash | Himself | Episode: "The Transfer"[204] | |
| 67th Tony Awards | N/a | Awards show; lyricist of the opening number "Bigger!" | |
| How I Met Your Mother | Gus | Episode: "Bedtime Stories" | |
| 2016 | Inside Amy Schumer | Himself | Episode: "The World's Most Interesting Woman in the World" |
| Last Week Tonight with John Oliver | Episode: "Puerto Rico" | ||
| Hamilton's America | Television documentary | ||
| Difficult People | Episode: "Carter" | ||
| Drunk History | Episode: "Hamilton" | ||
| 2016–2025 | Saturday Night Live | Himself / various | 1 episode as host, 3 episodes as guest |
| 2017 | My Brother, My Brother and Me | Himself | Episode: "Candlenights and Vape Ape" |
| Curb Your Enthusiasm | 2 episodes | ||
| 2017–2020 | BoJack Horseman | Crackerjack Sugarman (voice) | 2 episodes |
| 2017–2018 | The Magic School Bus Rides Again | Matthew Math Matthews | Theme song singer Voice; Episode; Ralphie and the Flying Tennellis |
| 2018 | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | John Adams | Episode: "Laura Linney/Sasheer Zamata/Lin-Manuel Miranda" |
| Bartlett | Jesus | 2 episodes | |
| Nina's World | Paquito Fernando (voice) | Episode: "Nina Live" | |
| 2018–2021 | DuckTales | Fenton Crackshell-Cabrera / Gizmoduck (voice) | 11 episodes |
| 2019 | Brooklyn Nine-Nine | Lieutenant David Santiago | Episode: "The Golden Child"[205] |
| Fosse/Verdon | Roy Scheider | Episode: "Providence"; also executive producer[206] | |
| 2019–2022 | His Dark Materials | Lee Scoresby | 11 episodes[207] |
| 2020 | Sesame Street: Elmo's Playdate | Himself | Television special |
| One Day at a Time | Tio Juanito (voice) | Episode: "The Politics Episode"[208] | |
| Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Celebration | Himself | Television special; performed "Giants in the Sky" | |
| A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote | Television special | ||
| 2022 | Bluey | Major Tom (voice) | Episode: "Stories"[209] |
| 2023 | Big Mouth | Puerto Rican Pubic Hair (voice) | Episode: "The International Show"[210] |
| 2023–2025 | Percy Jackson and the Olympians | Hermes | 2 episodes |
Web series
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009–2013 | Hardly Working | Self (Freestyle Love Supreme) | 3 episodes[211][212][213] |
| 2020 | Some Good News | Himself | Episode: "Hamilton Cast Zoom Surprise"[214] |
| Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems! | Episode: "#10" |
Bibliography
Books
- Hamilton: The Revolution (2016) with Jeremy McCarter
- Gmorning, Gnight!: Little Pep Talks for Me & You (2018) with Jonny Sun
- In the Heights: Finding Home (2021) with Quiara Alegría Hudes and Jeremy McCarter
Articles
- "Pursuing the Muse Against the Clock", The New York Times (2014)[2]
- "Stop the Bots from Killing Broadway", The New York Times (2016)[215]
- "Give Puerto Rico Its Chance to Thrive", The New York Times (2016)[216]
Discography
Cast albums
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [217] |
AUS [218] |
BEL (FL) [219] |
CAN [220] |
IRE [221] |
NZ [222] |
UK [223] | |||
| In The Heights | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| Merrily We Roll Along |
|
— | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Bring It On | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 21 Chump Street |
|
— | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Hamilton |
|
2 | 6 | 136 | 2 | 52 | 7 | 58 | |
| "—" denotes items which did not chart in that territory. | |||||||||
Soundtrack albums
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [217] |
AUS [232] |
BEL (FL) [233] |
CAN [234] |
IRE [235] |
NZ [236] |
SCO [237] |
UK [238] | |||
| Moana |
|
2 | 2 | 49 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 7 | |
| Mary Poppins Returns |
|
34 | 15 | 85 | 73 | — | — | — | — | |
| In The Heights |
|
45 | 59 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Vivo |
|
— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Encanto |
|
1 | 1 | 8 | 1 | — | 1 | — | — | |
| The Little Mermaid |
|
21 | — | 54 | — | — | 32 | — | — | |
| Mufasa: The Lion King |
|
169 | — | 119 | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "—" denotes items which did not chart in that territory. | ||||||||||
Soundtrack mixtapes
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [217] |
AUS [249] |
BEL (FL) [250] |
CAN [251] |
NZ [249] | |||
| The Hamilton Mixtape |
|
1 | 26 | 114 | 9 | 29 | |
| Hamildrops: The Complete Collection | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "—" denotes items which did not chart in that territory. | |||||||
Concept albums
| Title | Album details |
|---|---|
| Warriors |
|
Instrumental albums
| Title | Album details |
|---|---|
| The Hamilton Instrumentals |
Singles
| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US | US Latin | US Latin Digital | ||||
| "Jabba Flow" (with John Williams) |
2015 | — | — | — | Star Wars: The Force Awakens | |
| "Love Make the World Go Round" (with Jennifer Lopez) |
2016 | 72 | — | — | Non-album singles | |
| "What the World Needs Now Is Love" (with Broadway for Orlando) |
— | — | — | |||
| "Crucible Cast Party" (as part of the cast of SNL) |
— | — | — | |||
| "We Know The Way" (with Opetaia Foa'i) |
93 | — | — |
|
Moana | |
| "You're Welcome (Jordan Fisher Version)" (with Jordan Fisher) |
— | — | — | |||
| "Wrote My Way Out" (with Nas, Dave East, and Aloe Blacc) |
— | — | — | Hamilton Mixtape | ||
| "Almost Like Praying" (with Artists for Puerto Rico) |
2017 | 20 | 3 | 1 | Non-album singles | |
| "Found/Tonight" (with Ben Platt) |
2018 | 49 | — | — | ||
| "A Forgotten Spot" (with Zion & Lennox, De La Ghetto, Ivy Queen, PJ Sin Suela, and Lucecita Benitez) |
— | — | 13 | |||
| "Rufio" (with Utkarsh Ambudkar and Dante Basco) |
— | — | — | |||
| "Cheering For Me Now" (with John Kander) |
— | — | — | |||
| "Trip a Little Light Fantastic" (from Mary Poppins Returns) |
— | — | — | Mary Poppins Returns | ||
| "Mr. Bojangles" (from Episode 8 of Fosse/Verdon) |
2019 | — | — | — | Fosse/Verdon | |
| "Checks and Balances" (from the Netflix series We The People) (with Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Daveed Diggs, Brittany Howard, and Robert Lopez) |
2021 | — | — | — | Non-album singles | |
| "Keep the Beat" (with Ynairaly Simo) |
— | — | — | Vivo | ||
| "Esperando Pelitos" | 2023 | — | — | — | Non-album singles | |
| "—" denotes items which did not chart in that territory. | ||||||
Audiobook narration
- 2013: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz
- 2016: Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jeremy McCarter, and Mariska Hargitay
- 2016: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
- 2018: Gmorning, Gnight!: Little Pep Talks for Me and You by Lin-Manuel Miranda
- 2021: Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World by Benjamin Alire Saenz
See also
- Nuyorican
- Nuyorican Movement
- Latino theatre in the United States
- Puerto Rican literature
- Latino literature
- Puerto Ricans in New York City
- Puerto Ricans in the United States
- List of Puerto Ricans
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External links
- Official website
- Lin-Manuel Miranda at the Internet Broadway Database
- Lin-Manuel Miranda at the Internet Off-Broadway Database (archived)
- Lin-Manuel Miranda at IMDb
- Lin-Manuel Miranda at Playbill Vault
- Lin-Manuel Miranda at Rotten Tomatoes
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Lin-Manuel Miranda at Last.fm
- Lin-Manuel Miranda discography at Discogs
- Lin-Manuel Miranda
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