American composer, lyricist, playwright and actor Lin Manuel Miranda is known for creating phenomenal musicals on Broadway, which have also earned him numerous accolades including 2 Grammy Awards, 3 Tony Awards, an Emmy Award and a Pulitzer Prize.
Some of his most notable works are the Broadway musicals In the Heights and Hamilton. The premiere was Miranda’s first Broadway musical, and he received 4 Tony Awards in 2008, one of which was for Best Original Score. He was the sole creator and also starred in the Broadway hit Hamilton, which won him 2 Tony Awards for Best Book and Best Score in 2016.
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Biography, Ethnicity
Lin Manuel Miranda was born on January 16, 1980, in Upper Manhattan, New York. His mother, Luz Towns, was a clinical psychologist, while his father, Luis A. Miranda Jr., was a political adviser to the mayor of New York. Both of her parents are Puerto Rican. He grew up in a Hispanic neighborhood of Inwood and grew up. Young Miranda was still sent on a month-long vacation with his grandparents to Peurto Rica every year.
In terms of his ethnicity, the award-winning Theatrical Genius describes himself as a quarterback Mexican. He also has distant black and Caucasian ancestry as there is a notable interracial couple in his mother’s line.
His early education was at Hunter College Elementary School, after which he continued his education at Hunter College High School. Miranda graduated from Wesleyan University in 2002 after majoring in theater studies. As a student he wrote and performed in several musicals, early versions of his hit Broadway musical. In the Heights was written in his second year at college.
Miranda’s interest in acting was sparked after seeing her first Broadway musical, Les Misérables, at the age of 7. Of Latin American descent, the young Miranda was also exposed to several musical genres, including salsa tunes. It also sparked an interest in music, and he quickly scribbled down song lyrics. He formed a hip-hop group known as ‘Freestyle Love Supreme’ when he was in college. One of his earliest doodles was used as the jingle for the 2006 gubernatorial campaign for Eliot Spitzer, New York’s 54th Governor.
The inspiration for her hugely successful musical Hamilton came after Miranda read the biography of Alexander Hamilton written by Ron Chernow. In 2009, he featured a song by the band to complete Hamilton at the first-ever White House Poetry and Spoken Word Night.
It took Miranda 6 years to finish Hamilton but all that hard work paid off when it hit the public theatres. When it debuted in 2015, it was met with immense commercial success and praise from critics. For multi-talented composer Lin Manuel Miranda, it has been one award after another, including a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award in 2016. Hamilton has won 11 Tony Awards from a record 16 nominations.
Miranda was nominated for Grammy Awards, Golden Globes and Academy Awards for his song How Far I Go , written by him for the 2016 Disney animated film Moana. While it won the Grammy for Best Song Written for Visual Media, the other 2 awards were lost to Star City from the movie La La Land.
Beyond Broadway, Miranda has made guest appearances on The Sopranos TV series , Modern Family, and the 9th season of How I Met Your Mother. He also appeared in the films The Funny Life of Timothy Green (2012) and 200 Boxes (2013).
In February 2018, Lin Manuel Miranda participated in a panel discussion at his university, Hunter College, in New York, alongside Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda.
Wife of Lin Manuel Miranda, son
Lin Manuel Miranda is currently married to Vanessa Nadal, the two had been friends in high school. Vanessa holds a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from MIT. She also studied law at Fordham University Law School. She is currently practicing as an attorney at one of the world’s largest international legal firms, Jones Day.
True to her theatrical genius character, Miranda performed the Fiddler on the Roof song at their fairytale wedding in 2010.
The couple welcomed their first child, son Sebastian, in November 2014. On February 2, 2018, they welcomed a second son, Francisco.
Net worth, House
Lin Manuel Miranda’s net worth is currently estimated at $10 million. Much of the fortune must have come from his hugely successful Broadway hits In the Heights and Hamilton.
His combined role as creator and lead actor in Hamilton earned him $6.4 million in 2016. Being the sole creator of Hamilton, Miranda gets a 7% cut of all royalties that accrue to the production. This percentage allowed him to earn up to $105,000 per week in royalties in 2016.
However, even if Miranda decides to quit the cast of the play, her royalties will continue to accrue to her as the mastermind that birthed the idea. Hence, his current net worth will increase in the near future.
After winning a Tony for her 2008 Broadway hit In the Heights, Miranda co-purchased a 1,125-square-foot duplex penthouse space with her father Luiz A. Miranda. However, he did not reside in his parents’ apartment, but together with his wife moved to the Castle Village apartment complex in Washington Heights.
The Mirandas’ former family home in New York City’s Inwood neighborhood is now up for sale at $949,000.
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Height and other body measurements
height : 5ft 9 inches
Weight : 161 lbs.
Biceps : 15.5 inches
Waist : 35 inches
Bust : 41 inches
