American actor, singer, director, songwriter and playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda
was born on January 16, 1980 in New York City. As a schoolboy, he developed a
passion for musical comedy and began writing for it at an early age. As a
university student, he wrote his first Broadway musical, In the Heights, in
1999. He went on to play a series of roles in musicals such as Merrily We Roll
Along (2012), Tick, tick... Boom! (2014) and Hamilton (2015), or in films such
as Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015), The Return of Mary Poppins
(2018) and D'où l'On Vient (2021). He has ...