Lin-Manuel Miranda

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.

Cast

Moana

(Additional Voices (voice))

tick, tick... BOOM!

(Diner Manager (uncredited))

In The Room: Leigh Sales with Lin-Manuel Miranda

(Self)

2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

(Self)

Reopening: The Broadway Revival

(Self)

Betty White: A Celebration

(Self)

Honoring a Broadway Legacy: Behind the Scenes of tick, tick...Boom!

(Self)

On Broadway

(Self (archive footage))

Global Goal: Unite for Our Future | The Concert

A Place for Us: West Side Story's Legacy

(Self)

Platinum Party at the Palace

(Self)

Keeping Company with Sondheim

(Self)

Celebrity Habla

(Self)

Broadway Rising

(Self)

Disney 100: A Century of Dreams - A Special Edition of 20/20

(Self)

Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic

(Self)

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

(Doctor)

Crossing the Line to Broadway

(himself (Music and Lyrics))

Broadway: The Next Generation

(Self)

Encanto at the Hollywood Bowl

(Self - Host)

Satisfied

Mary Poppins Returns

(Jack)

This American Life: Live at BAM

(Narrator)

200 Cartas

(Raul)

The Happy Accident

(Himself)

Millennials: The Musical

(Himself)

The Odd Life of Timothy Green

(Reggie)

Residente

(Himself)

Speech & Debate

(The Genie)

Hamilton: One Shot to Broadway

The Polar Bears

(Jak (voice))

Britney: For the Record

(Self)

21 Chump Street

(Narrator)

Andrew Lloyd Webber: Tribute to a Superstar

(Self)

Rock Rubber 45s

(Self)

Hamilton

(Alexander Hamilton)

Mary Poppins Returns: Behind the Magic

(Self)

The Wonderful World of Disney: Magical Holiday Celebration

(Self)

Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles

(Himself)

In the Heights

(Piragüero)

My Favorite Shapes by Julio Torres

(Cactus (voice))

We Are Freestyle Love Supreme

(Self)

Siempre, Luis

(Self)

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

(Soldier (uncredited))

Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail

(Lin-Manuel Miranda (archive footage))

The Skywalker Legacy

(Self)

Sesame Street: Elmo's Playdate

(Self)

Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration

(Self - Performer)

Hamilton: History Has Its Eyes On You

Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado

(Self)

Hamilton's America

(Self)

The Undefeated Presents: Hamilton In-Depth

(Self)

In the Heights: Chasing Broadway Dreams

(Self)

The Making Of

A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote

(Self)

An Evening with Alan Menken

(Himself)

Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It

(Self)

The Candlenights 2020 Special

(Self)

Celebrating America

(Self)

Roll Up Your Sleeves

(Self)

Vivo

(Vivo (voice))

Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

(Self)

The Sopranos

(Bellman)

DuckTales

(Sheriff Marshall Cabrera (voice))

DuckTales

(Fenton Crackshell-Cabrera / Elves (voice))

Dear...

(Self)

Tamron Hall

(Self - Guest)

Drunk History

(Himself)

The Daily Show

(Self)

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

We the People

((voice))

Tony Awards

(Self - Winner)

Tony Awards

(Self - Presenter)

Kids' Choice Awards

(Self - Presenter)

Late Night with Seth Meyers

(Self)

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

(Self)

Modern Family

(Guillermo)

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

(Self)

Take 5 with Zan Rowe

(Self)

Big Mouth

(Puerto Rican Pubic Hair (voice))

House

(Juan 'Alvie' Alvarez)

The Kelly Clarkson Show

(Self)

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

(Self)

My Brother, My Brother and Me

(Himself/Narrator)

Bluey

(Major Tom (voice))

DuckTales

(Fenton Crackshell-Cabrera / Gizmoduck (voice))

Percy Jackson and the Olympians

(Hermes)

Percy Jackson and the Olympians

(Hermes (uncredited))

Do No Harm

(Dr. Ruben Marcado)

Bartlett

(Jesus)

Saturday Night Live

(Self - Host)

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

(Self)

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

(David Santiago)

Billy on the Street

(Self)

Disney's Fairy Tale Weddings

(Himself - Special Guest)

Stars in the House

(Self - Special Guest)

Smash

(Lin-Manuel Miranda)

BoJack Horseman

(Crackerjack Sugarman (voice))

Saturday Night Live

(Self - Cameo (uncredited))

How I Met Your Mother

(Gus)

The Graham Norton Show

(Self)

Jam Van

The Oscars

(Self)

Some Good News

(Self)

One Day at a Time

(Juanito)

Curb Your Enthusiasm

(Lin-Manuel Miranda)

His Dark Materials

(Lee Scoresby)

Song Exploder

(Self)

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Conan

(Self)

Charlie Rose

(Self - Guest)