Lin-Manuel Miranda

Acting · Born 1980-01-16 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Biography

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…

Filmography

• Moana as Additional Voices (voice)
• tick, tick... BOOM! as Diner Manager (uncredited)
• The Odd Life of Timothy Green as Reggie
• In the Heights as Piragüero
• Vivo as Vivo (voice)
• Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) as Self - Artist
• 2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony as Self
• Betty White: A Celebration as Self
• Honoring a Broadway Legacy: Behind the Scenes of tick, tick...Boom! as Self
• On Broadway as Self (archive footage)

TV

• The Sopranos as Bellman
• DuckTales as Sheriff Marshall Cabrera (voice)
• DuckTales as Fenton Crackshell-Cabrera / Elves (voice)
• Last Week Tonight with John Oliver as Self
• Modern Family as Guillermo
• Big Mouth as Puerto Rican Pubic Hair (voice)
• House as Juan 'Alvie' Alvarez
• DuckTales as Fenton Crackshell-Cabrera / Gizmoduck (voice)
• Brooklyn Nine-Nine as David Santiago
• BoJack Horseman as Crackerjack Sugarman (voice)