Trivia

Completely rhymed his Tony Award acceptance speech for original score (Music or Lyrics) for "In the Heights" (2008).

As of February 27, 2017, Lin-Manuel Miranda is only an Oscar win away from attaining the coveted "EGOT" status. The acronym EGOT refers to people who have won all four of the entertainment industry's major awards: an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony. Miranda won his first Emmy (along with Tom Kitt) in 2014 for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics for the song "Bigger!," written for the 67th Tony Awards. He won his first Grammy in 2009 for Best Musical Theater Album for "In the Heights." His first Tony Award was also for "In the Heights"--he won Best Original Score in 2008. His first Oscar nomination was in 2017 for Best Original Song ("How Far I'll Go") from the movie Moana, though he did not win that Oscar. Miranda is also one of the very few EGOT candidates who has also won a Pulitzer Prize. Of all the people in history who have ever attained full EGOT status, only Marvin Hamlisch and Richard Rodgers also won a Pulitzer. The list of people who (like Miranda) have won a Pulitzer and are otherwise only missing one of the EGOT awards is almost as short; it is: Oscar Hammerstein II (missing an Emmy); Frank Loesser (missing an Emmy); and Stephen Sondheim (missing an Emmy). Of all of these men, only Sondheim and Miranda were still alive as of February 2017.

Was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship or "Genius Grant" on September 29, 2015.

He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Live Theatre at 6243 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on November 30, 2018.

Miranda won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for writing the book, music, and lyrics for Hamilton: An American Musical. The citation read, "A landmark American musical about the gifted and self-destructive founding father Alexander Hamilton whose story becomes both contemporary and irresistible." Since the drama Pulitzer was first awarded in 1918, it has only been given to a musical nine times; the musicals before Hamilton to win a Pulitzer were: George and Ira Gershwin's Of Thee I Sing (opened in 1931; awarded in 1932), Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific (opened in 1949; awarded in 1950), Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick's Fiorello! (opened in 1959; awarded in 1960), Frank Loesser's How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (opened in 1961; awarded in 1962), Marvin Hamlisch, Ed Kleban, James Kirkwood, and Nicholas Dante's A Chorus Line (opened in 1975; awarded in 1976), Stephen Sondheim's and James Lapine's Sunday in the Park with George (opened in 1984; awarded in 1985), Jonathan Larson's Rent (workshopped in 1993; opened and awarded in 1996), and Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt's Next to Normal (opened in 2008; awarded in 2010).

Winner of two Tony Awards in 2016. He won for Book of a Musical and Score (Music and/or Lyrics) for his work on "Hamilton". He received another nomination that year - for Actor (Musical), also for his work on "Hamilton".

Was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical (2008).

Miranda and his wife, Vanessa Nadal-Miranda, have two sons. One, named Sebastian, on November 10, 2014 and another, named Francisco, on February 2, 2018.

Is a member of the New York-based hip-hop comedy troupe Freestyle Love Supreme with Chris Sullivan, Bill Sherman, and Chris Jackson.

Was nominated for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the play "In the Heights" collaborating with Quiara Alegría Hudes.

Was a substitute teacher at his alumni Hunter College High School.

Lin very briefly was a TA for a US history at Carson high school (Carson ,CA).

His mother Dr. Luz Towns-Miranda is a clinical psychologist. His father Luis Miranda is a Democratic Party consultant.

Won the Tony Award for Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) for "In the Heights" (2008).

Is a huge fan of the television series The West Wing (1999).

Nominated for the 2019 Golden Globe Award in the Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy category for his role as Jack in Mary Poppins Returns (2018), but lost to Christian Bale for Vice (2018).

His paternal grandparents and maternal grandmother were Puerto Rican, with roots in Vega Alta, Santurce, and Corozal, Adjuntas. His maternal grandfather was a Texan, whose ancestry was mostly Mexican; he also descended from a well-known interracial couple of the 1800s, David Towns and Sophie (David was white, of Colonial American descent, and Sophie was black).

Attended and graduated from Hunter College High School in New York City.

Miranda was awarded the MacArthur "Genius" Grant to further his musical career.

His DNA test showed his genetic ancestry to be 62.9% European, 19.4% East Asian and Native American, 9.7% Sub-Saharan African, 5.4% Unassigned, and 2.7% Middle Eastern and North African.

He attended high school with Inside with Jen Psaki on a Monday and All in with Chris Hayes (2013) anchor Chris Hayes, and Hayes directed the first musical Lin wrote.

Directed 1 actor to an Oscar nomination: Andrew Garfield, who was nominated for tick, tick... BOOM! (2021).

His musical "In the Heights" at the Porchlight Music Theatre in Chicago, Illinois was nominated for a 2017 Joseph Jefferson Equity Award for Midsize Music Production.

Amanda Green (Lyricist); Tom Kitt (Music) and he were awarded the 2012 Back Stage Garland Award for Musical Score for "Bring It On: The Musical" at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, California.

Is a huge fan of the TV drama The West Wing (1999).

Amanda Green (Lyricist); Tom Kitt (Music) and he were awarded the 2012 Back Stage Garland Award for Adaptation for "Bring It On: The Musical" at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, California.