Lin-Manuel Miranda
Biography
Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote the first incarnation of "In the Heights" his sophomore year at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. Off-Broadway, "In The Heights" received nine Drama Desk nominations, including best music, best lyrics, and it won the award for outstanding ensemble performance; received the Lucille Lortel Award and Outer Critics Circle Award for best musical; received the Obie Award for outstanding music and lyrics; received a Theater World Award for outstanding debut Performance and the Clarence Derwent Award both for Mr. Miranda's performance. He is the recipient of the 2007 ASCAP Richard Rodgers New Horizons Award. He has appeared on The Sopranos (1999) and Sex and the City (1998), House (2004), and The Electric Company (2006). He is also a co-founding member of Freestyle Love Supreme, a hip-hop comedy group that tours comedy festivals all over the world.
46years old
Turns 47 on January 16in 72 days
- Born Manhattan
- Star sign: CapricornThe sign runs December 22 to January 19
Movie Career
- Films
- 14
- Career span
- 17 years2008 to 2025
Genres
- Comedy43%, 6 films
- Documentary43%, 6 films
- Drama36%, 5 films
- Music29%, 4 films
- Animation21%, 3 films
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Behind the camera
Miranda co-founded the hip hop improv group Freestyle Love Supreme in 2003, which later made its Broadway debut in 2019.
First role
In 1999, while a sophomore at Wesleyan University, Miranda wrote the earliest draft of In the Heights, which became his first Broadway musical. Wesleyan's student theater company, Second Stage, accepted the show, and he added freestyle rap and salsa numbers before it premiered there in 1999.
A role that slipped away
Miranda was occupied with Moana and Hamilton, so he declined other projects that would have distracted him. He later described this as an ego check once Hamilton became a hit.
A first
In 2009, Yeshiva University in Washington Heights, Manhattan, gave Miranda an honorary degree. He was the youngest person ever to receive one from that university.
Lin-Manuel Miranda movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
- Mary Poppins Returns2018 Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musicalas Jack
IMDb rating 6.6102K votes
Most often with
Five actors appear in two of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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Anthony Ramos's page
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Awards
Twelve awards and honors from 2007 to 2023, seven of them major.
| Year | Award | Film | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emmy Awards | |||
| 2014 | Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics | Won | |
| Tony Awards | |||
| 2016 | Best Book of a Musical | Hamilton | Won |
| 2016 | Best Original Score | Hamilton | Won |
| 2008 | Best Original Score | Won | |
| 2008 | Best Original Score | In the Heights | Won |
| Grammy Awards | |||
| 2023 | Best Song Written for Visual Media | Won | |
| 2008 | Best Musical Theater Album | Won | |
| Other honors | |||
| 2023 | Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Won | |
| 2016 | Pulitzer Prize for Drama | Hamilton | Won |
| 2015 | Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical | Won | |
| 2007 | Theatre World Award | Won | |
| Audie Award for Best Male Narrator | Won | ||
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