Lin-Manuel Miranda

Biography

Lin-Manuel Miranda (born January 16, 1980) is an American songwriter, actor, filmmaker, librettist, and producer. He created the Broadway musicals In the Heights and Hamilton and wrote 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 has been nominated for two Academy Awards; he received the Kennedy Center Honor in 2018.

Miranda made his Broadway debut in 2008 with In the Heights, for which he wrote the music and lyrics and starred; the show won Tony Awards for Best Musical and Best Original Score and a Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, and was later adapted as a 2021 film. He returned to Broadway in 2015 with Hamilton, writing the book, music, and lyrics and starring; Hamilton won the Pulitzer Prize, was nominated for a record sixteen Tonys and won eleven, including Miranda's first Best Book of a Musical. He has worked in film and television as an actor and director, collaborated frequently with Disney, and has been politically active on behalf of Puerto Rico.

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