He also had a voice role in the animated film Vivo, released in 2021. Miranda debuted as a film director with Tick, Tick.Boom! (2021), a biographical musical drama.
For his performance in the Disney+ live stage recording of Hamilton released in 2020, he received Golden Globe and Primetime Emmy Award nominations. He starred as Jack in the musical fantasy Mary Poppins Returns (2018), for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. He worked on the 2016 animated musical Moana, and wrote the story and music for Encanto-a widespread critical and commercial success its song " We Don't Talk About Bruno" broke various records, marked Miranda's first-ever number-one song on the US Billboard Hot 100 and the UK Singles charts, and propelled him to mainstream fame. The Hamilton Mixtape, a cover album by Miranda, further reached number one on the Billboard 200.Ī frequent collaborator of the Walt Disney Company, Miranda has written original songs for the studio, which has garnered him two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Original Song (" How Far I'll Go" and " Dos Oruguitas"). The Hamilton cast recording spent ten weeks atop Billboard 's Top Rap Albums chart and became the eleventh-biggest album of the 2010s. It earned the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and was nominated for a record 16 Tony Awards and won 11, including Miranda's first win for the Best Book of a Musical.
Miranda gained wider recognition for writing the script, music, and lyrics for Hamilton, which has been acclaimed as a pop culture phenomenon since its 2015 Broadway premiere. The stage musical was adapted into a film released in June 2021. The production was a critical and commercial success, winning the Tony Awards for Best Musical and Best Original Score, and the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album. His accolades include three Tony Awards, three Grammy Awards, two Laurence Olivier Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, a MacArthur Fellowship Award, a Kennedy Center Honor, and a Pulitzer Prize.Ī graduate of Wesleyan University, Miranda made his Broadway debut in the 2008 musical In the Heights, in which he starred and wrote the music and lyrics. He is known for creating the Broadway musicals In the Heights (2005) and Hamilton (2015), and the soundtrack of Disney's Encanto (2021). Lin-Manuel Miranda ( / l ɪ n m æ n ˈ w ɛ l m ɪ ˈ r æ n d ə/ born January 16, 1980) is an American actor, singer-songwriter, playwright, and film director.