Lin-Manuel Miranda is an American actor, singer, rapper, composer, producer, and playwright. He created and starred in the Broadway musicals In the Heights and Hamilton. His awards include a Pulitzer Prize, three Tony Awards, three Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award, a MacArthur Fellowship, and a Kennedy Center Honor in 2018. Miranda is of Puerto Rican descent and spent at least one month each year with his grandparents in Puerto Rico.
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Lin-Manuel Miranda is an American actor, singer, rapper, composer, producer, and playwright. He created and starred in the Broadway musicals In the Heights and Hamilton. His awards include a Pulitzer Prize, three Tony Awards, three Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award, a MacArthur Fellowship, and a Kennedy Center Honor in 2018. Miranda is of Puerto Rican descent and spent at least one month each year with his grandparents in Vega Alta, Puerto Rico. He has been politically active, most notably on behalf of Puerto Rico, and raised funds for rescue efforts and disaster relief after Hurricane Maria struck the island in 2017. He hosted Saturday Night Live for the first time in 2016 and earned his first Emmy award nomination for acting. He also wrote music and songs in the animated musical Moana and starred as Jack in the musical fantasy Mary Poppins Returns. The Hamilton cast recording spent ten weeks atop Billboard’s Top Rap Albums chart in 2015; Billboard subsequently listed it as the eleventh-biggest album of the 2010s. Miranda graduated from Wesleyan University in 2002 and worked with John Buffalo Mailer and Thomas Kail to revise the musical. He left the cast of the production of Us on February 15, 2009, to join the team of Alegría Quiroga and John Quigley for the film version of Us. Miranda has been nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for the role of Jack in Mary Poppers Returns.
He was nominated for an Emmy award for recurring roles on The Electric Company and Do No Harm. He is married to the former Miss New York City and the mother of two children, both of whom he has adopted. He lives in New York with his wife and two children. He and his wife have a son, a daughter, and two step-daughters who live in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles. They have two sons, a son and a daughter-in-law who live with their parents in Los Angeles and San Diego, California. They are expecting their third child, a girl, in the spring of 2018. They also have a daughter who is due to be born in the fall of this year. The family lives in Queens, New York, with Miranda’s sister, Luz, who is the chief financial officer of the MirRam Group, and his brother, Luis A. Miranda Jr., a Democratic Party consultant. Miranda and his sister Luz met at Hunter College Elementary School and Hunter College High School. Miranda wrote the earliest draft of what would become his first Broadway musical, In The Heights, in 1999, his sophomore year of college at Wesleyan. After the show was accepted by Wesleyan’s student theater company, Second Stage, Miranda added freestyle rap and salsa numbers, and the show premiered there in 2002. Miranda also wrote and directed several other musicals atesleyan and acted in many other productions, ranging from Shakespeare to Shakespeare. Miranda left Wesleyan in 2004.
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