Lin-Manuel Miranda
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.
113 acting credits · 2 directing credits
Acting · 113
House
2004
The Daily Show
1996
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
Modern Family
2009
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The Sopranos
1999
How I Met Your Mother
2005
The Graham Norton Show
2007
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
Saturday Night Live
1975
Conan
2010
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
2013
Curb Your Enthusiasm
2000
BoJack Horseman
2014
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
Bluey
2018
Great Performances
1971
Sherri
2022
Tony Awards
1956
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
2014
Smash
2012
Big Mouth
2017
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
2023
DuckTales
2017
Tamron Hall
2019
MTV Movie & TV Awards
1992
Stars in the House
2020
His Dark Materials
2019
Drunk History
2013
The Oscars
1953
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
2019
One Day at a Time
2017
American Idol
2018
Kids' Choice Awards
1987
Difficult People
2015
Hamilton
2025
Charlie Rose
1991
Some Good News
2020
Dear...
2020
Mary Poppins Returns
2018
Moana
2016
Vivo
2021
2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2021
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
2022
Do No Harm
2013
Encanto at the Hollywood Bowl
2022
tick, tick... BOOM!
2021
Disney 100: A Century of Dreams – A Special Edition of 20/20
2023
Take 5 with Zan Rowe
2022
In the Heights
2021
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
2012
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
2021
My Brother, My Brother and Me
2017
Disney's Fairy Tale Weddings
2017
We the People
2021
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
2021
A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote
2020
Jam Van
2023
Song Exploder
2020
The Polar Bears
2012
The Skywalker Legacy
2020
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
2023
On Broadway
2019
Speech & Debate
2017
Broadway: The Next Generation
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My Favorite Shapes by Julio Torres
2019
Honoring a Broadway Legacy: Behind the Scenes of tick, tick...Boom!
2022
Tony Shalhoub Breaking Bread
2025
A Grammy Celebration of Latin Music
2025
Keeping Company with Sondheim
2022
Celebrating America
2021
Britney: For the Record
2008
Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado
2020
Betty White: A Celebration
2022
Platinum Party at the Palace
2022
Reopening: The Broadway Revival
2022
Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail
2019
The Undefeated Presents: Hamilton In-Depth
2020
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles
2019
Roll Up Your Sleeves
2021
Merrily We Roll Along
—
Sesame Street: Elmo's Playdate
2020
The Wonderful World of Disney: Magical Holiday Celebration
2018
Mary Poppins Returns: Behind the Magic
2018
Residente
2017
Hamilton: History Has Its Eyes On You
2020
In the Heights: Chasing Broadway Dreams
2009
Hamilton: One Shot to Broadway
2017
Global Goal: Unite for Our Future | The Concert
2020
You Had to Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution...
2025
Satisfied
2025
Broadway Rising
2022
We Are Freestyle Love Supreme
2020
Millennials: The Musical
2016
Bartlett
2018
A Place for Us: West Side Story's Legacy
2011
Siempre, Luis
2020
Hamilton's America
2016
This American Life: Live at BAM
2014
200 Cartas
2013
The Making Of
—
Andrew Lloyd Webber: Tribute to a Superstar
2018
The Candlenights 2020 Special
2020
Hamilton: Reuniting the Revolution
2025
Celebrity Habla
2009
An Evening with Alan Menken
2020
Sesame Street: Wild Words and Outdoor Adventures
2011
Crossing the Line to Broadway
2015
El accidente feliz
2020
In The Room: Leigh Sales with Lin-Manuel Miranda
2023
Rock Rubber 45s
2018
