Lin-Manuel Miranda

Lin-Manuel Miranda was born in New York Click to look into! >> Read More... City, New York, United States on 16th January, 1980. He is an actor, playwright and composer by profession. He has his own website named www.linmanuel.com. His mother is Luz Towns who is a psychologist and his father is Luis A. Miranda Jr. who was working as a consultant for Ed Koch, New York City Mayor. CFO of MirRam Group, Luz is his elder sister.

He got his name from a poem “Nana Roja Para MI Hijo Lin Manuel” written by Manuel Torres Santiego about the Vietnam War. After graduation from Hunter College High School, he studied at Wesleyan University and passed out in the year 2002. In the year 1999, he wrote “In The Heights” and co-founded “Freestyle Love Supreme.” While he was studying at the University, he directed and wrote several broadway musicals. He also did some acting for Shakespeare and the musicals created by him.

If we summarize his career in the industry, he worked for “In The Heights” (2002-2010), “Bring It On” and various television series works (2011-2014), “Hamilton” (2015-2016) and is currently working in collaboration with Disney and is also working on various films. In the year 2010, he married is high school friend, Vanessa Adriana Nadal. He performed the song “To life” on his wedding reception which was posted on youtube and viewed by more than 5 million people. He is somehow related to ILE and Residente of Calle 13 and they confirm their relation by posting it on social media. On May 14, 2009 he himself, with his friend Johannah Ward, received a degree by Yeshiva University (youngest person to receive it). The degree was presented to him by Ed Koch. On November 10,2014 his son Sebastian was born.

He also has a pet dog named “Tobillo” as reported in the interview with “Maximum Fun” and podcast “Can I Pet Your Dog?” In the year 2015, he received the MacArthur Genius Award as he has shown extraordinary originality in his field of work. In march 2016, he joined New York Sens, after meeting the U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House. He is a huge fan of “Maximum Fun” and “My Brother, My Brother and Me”, he has also appeared as a guest on their podcast. He also likes “Comedy Bang! Bang!” and T.V. Drama “The West wing.” He has won many awards including “Pulitzer Prize”, “Grammy Award”, “Emmy Award”, “Tony Award” and many others in the list.