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, an Annie Award, a MacArthur Fellowship Award, a Kennedy Center Honor, and a Pulitzer Prize.Ī graduate of Wesleyan University in Connecticut, 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 Hamilton (2015) and In the Heights (2005), 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 a American composer, lyricist, actor, and filmmaker.

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