Lin-Manuel Miranda
Born January 16, 1980 in New York City, Lin-Manuel Miranda lived in the Inwood neighborhood of upper Manhattan. Miranda attended Hunter College High School before moving on to Wesleyan University. Miranda also spent several weeks every year visiting his grandparents in Puerto Rico. Miranda's father was a political advisor to mayor Ed Koch, and as a young adult Miranda often helped to pitch jingles for political candidates including one for Eliot Spitzer's 2006 campaign. At Wesleyan, Miranda co-founded a hip-hop comedy troupe, and wrote the first draft of what was to become his first musical, "In the Heights." The show was performed at Wesleyan in the Spring of 1999. After his graduation, Miranda continued to work on "In the Heights," which moved to Broadway in 2008. Miranda worked as an English teacher at his former high school while working on his projects. In addition to the musicals "Working," and "Bring It On!," Miranda appeared in an episode of "The Sopranos"(HBO, 1997-2007), and "House" (Fox, 2004-2012). After reading Alexander Chernow's biography of Alexander Hamilton, Miranda began performing a series of raps inspired by the work that was he later expanded to the musical "Hamilton." "Hamilton" debuted on Broadway in 2015 to wildly positive reviews. Miranda was a 2015 recipient of the MacArthur Genius Award and won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for the musical. Its commercial success also made him a mainstream figure, appearing on The Grammy Awards, starring in a sketch on "Inside Amy Schumer" (Comedy Central 2013- ) and hosting "Saturday Night Live" (NBC 1975- ). After leaving the show in 2016, Miranda produced the various artists album The Hamilton Mixtape, featuring songs from the show as interpreted by popular singers. His next major project was composing the score for the Disney animated film "Moana" (2016), starring Dwayne Johnson. In late 2016, Miranda announced that he was executive producing an adaptation of author Pat Rothfuss' fantasy series The Kingkiller Chronicle, which would involve both feature films and a television series..
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Lin-Manuel Miranda
Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Moana | Producer | - | 2026 |
100% | No Score Yet | Satisfied | Self | - | 2024 |
66% |
|
The Little Mermaid | Producer | $298.2M | 2023 |
88% |
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Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe | Producer | $372.1K | 2022 |
No Score Yet |
|
Encanto at the Hollywood Bowl | Self | - | 2022 |
96% |
|
Neptune Frost | Executive Producer | $193.9K | 2021 |
92% |
|
Encanto | Music | $96.1M | 2021 |
87% |
|
Tick, Tick... Boom! |
Director, Producer |
- | 2021 |
86% |
|
Vivo |
Vivo (Voice), Executive Producer, Original Music |
- | 2021 |
99% |
|
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) | Self | $2.3M | 2021 |
96% |
|
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go For It |
Self, Executive Producer |
$263.2K | 2021 |
94% |
|
In the Heights |
Piraguero (Character), Producer |
$29.9M | 2021 |
60% | No Score Yet | Siempre, Luis | Self | - | 2020 |
98% |
|
Hamilton |
Alexander Hamilton (Character), Producer, Executive Producer, Original Music |
- | 2020 |
90% |
|
We Are Freestyle Love Supreme |
Unknown (Character), Producer |
- | 2020 |
98% |
|
Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles | Self | $547.5K | 2019 |
79% |
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Mary Poppins Returns | Jack (Character) | $172.0M | 2018 |
No Score Yet |
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Looking for Maria Sanchez | Raul (Character) | $6.7K | 2013 |
36% |
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The Odd Life of Timothy Green | Reggie Marks (Character) | $51.9M | 2012 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Polar Bears | Jak (Voice) | - | 2012 |
TV
Credit | ||||
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No Score Yet | 55% | The Kelly Clarkson Show | Guest | 2020-2022 2024 |
No Score Yet | 61% | Late Night With Seth Meyers | Guest | 2017-2018 2021 2024 |
No Score Yet | 44% | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon |
Music Performer, Guest |
2015-2022 2024 |
No Score Yet | 50% | The Late Show With Stephen Colbert | Guest | 2015 2018 2023 |
84% | 82% | His Dark Materials | Lee Scoresby (Character) | 2019-2020 2022 |
No Score Yet | 77% | Bluey | Major Tom (Voice) | 2022 |
No Score Yet | 42% | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Guest | 2016 2018 2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Graham Norton Show | Guest | 2018 2021 |
No Score Yet | 67% | We the People | Music Performer | 2021 |
No Score Yet | 93% | DuckTales |
Fenton Crackshell-Cabrera/ |
2018-2019 2021 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Great Performances | Guest | 2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Beyond the CANVAS | Guest | 2020 |
99% | 89% | One Day at a Time | Juanito (Guest Star) | 2020 |
100% | 85% | Dear... | Self | 2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Conan | Guest | 2016 2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Desus & Mero | Guest | 2019 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Ellen DeGeneres Show | Guest | 2016-2019 |
81% | 85% | Fosse/Verdon | Executive Producer | 2019 |
95% | 88% | Brooklyn Nine-Nine | David Santiago (Guest Star) | 2019 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Variety Studio: Actors on Actors | Guest | 2019 |
No Score Yet | 18% | The Late Late Show With James Corden |
Music Performer, Guest |
2016-2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Barefoot Contessa | Guest | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 20/20 | Guest | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Oprah at the Apollo | Guest | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bartlett | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2018 |
92% | 90% | Curb Your Enthusiasm | Himself (Guest Star) | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sesame Street | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rachael Ray | Guest | 2016-2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dateline NBC | Guest | 2017 |
No Score Yet | 81% | Drunk History | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2016 |
No Score Yet | 12% | The View | Guest | 2016 |
No Score Yet | 57% | Saturday Night Live | Host | 2016 |
96% | 85% | Difficult People | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 60 Minutes | Guest | 2015-2016 |
No Score Yet | 80% | Last Week Tonight With John Oliver | Music Performer | 2016 |
84% | 84% | How I Met Your Mother | Gus (Guest Star) | 2013 |
15% | 60% | Do No Harm | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2013 |
85% | 90% | Modern Family | Guillermo (Guest Star) | 2011 |
90% | 96% | House | Juan 'Alvie' Alvarez (Guest Star) | 2009-2010 |
92% | 96% | The Sopranos | Bellman (Guest Star) | 2007 |