Biography
Lin-Manuel Miranda is an American composer, songwriter, lyricist and actor. He was born on 16 January 1980 in Manhattan, New York City.
He wrote the music, lyrics and book for the Broadway musicals In the Heights (2008) and Hamilton (2015), in which he also starred as Alexander Hamilton. The filmed stage production of Hamilton received a theatrical release in 2025, on which Miranda is credited as writer, producer and performer. He has written songs for several Disney films, including Moana (2016), Encanto (2021) and The Little Mermaid (2023), on which he is also credited as producer. He appears as himself in the documentary Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021).
