Lin Manuel Miranda Net Worth

In the last decade, Lin-Manuel Miranda has become a household name, thanks primarily to his rich body of work spanning from his music in the Disney hit Moana to his groundbreakingly successful musical Hamilton.

Born to Puerto Rican parents, Lin-Manuel was born and raised in North Manhattan. He saw his first-ever Broadway musical, Les Miserables, at the tender age of seven, which would leave a strong mark on him, eventually leading him to venture into the world of musicals for his professional career. 

Lin-Manuel was so interested in music in general that he didn’t limit himself to just one particular genre. His range, therefore, included anything from classical musical theater to hip-hop. Eventually, he would find a way to merge the two and embark on a successful career journey creating his own musicals, starting with In the Heights, and later, Hamilton. 

Before winning many awards in his creative career, he worked as an English teacher at his alma mater, Hunter College High School. 

Lin Manuel Mirana Net Worth

To date, Lin Manuel Miranda’s net worth is approximately $80 million, most of which was earned from Hamilton’s earnings. The Broadway musical hit featuring the life of Alexander Hamilton has been nominated 16 times for the Tony Awards, winning 11 of those, including Best Musical, since its 2015 debut.

It has also brought in millions of royalties for him over the years, reportedly generating as much as $105,000 in royalties for him every week in 2020. Further growing Lin Manuel Miranda net worth in 2020 was the $70 million that Disney paid for the movie rights of this massive American musical hit.

In 2016, he hosted the second episode of the 42nd season of Saturday Night Live, bringing the reach of his hit musical into millions of homes across America.

Family Life

Lin-Manuel’s parents had very straightforward occupations–his father was a political consultant for several of the city’s mayors, while his mother was a psychologist. Therefore, his interests in the arts could not have been any further from what his parents might have expected. But they were supportive, nonetheless. He attributes much of his success to his humble beginnings, having learned and earned an appreciation for hard work and dedication at a young age. He knew what he wanted, and so he set out to pursue his dreams at all costs.

In 2010, Lin-Manuel married his high school crush, Vanessa Nadal. They are now parents to two sons, Sebastian and Francisco.

Career Achievements

This multi-talented American actor and composer has got more than one ace up his sleeve. Before Hamilton, Lin-Manuel was already established as a playwright and composer. In 2008, he debuted In the Heights, a musical about an immigrant community in New York, with characters hustling in pursuit of their dreams.

He wrote this musical in his second year of college at Wesleyan University, which would prove to be the beginning of many more remarkable achievements in his career as an American composer. In the Heights gave him his first Tony Award nominations–13 of them, in fact. It also gave him his first four Tony awards, including Best Original Score. 

Despite this big win, big bucks did not necessarily beef up Lin Manuel Miranda’s salary instantly. He continued to work on Broadway musicals and composing music but also branched out to television series appearances. By 2012, he was becoming a familiar face in households, thanks to his appearances in popular sitcoms like Modern Family and How I Met Your Mother. He also appeared in The Sopranos and Sesame Street.

Notable Achievements

Lin-Manuel Miranda definitely keeps busy. Whether he’s acting, composing, rapping, or writing, he’ll always be doing something in the creative field. Apart from the already mentioned award-winning works, Lin Manuel Miranda’s resume has more to offer. For one, he wrote the music and lyrics for the Broadway version of “Bring It On: the Musical.” After that, Miranda also worked on the music and lyrics for “21 Chump Street.”

When not working off Broadway or on television shows, he’s in film. In 2014, he took part in the production of the Disney animated box office hit Moana, composing several of the songs featured, including the main soundtrack, “How Far I’ll Go.” In 2021, he again contributed musical composition to another box office hit musical film, Encanto. He produced the catchy tunes of “Surface Pressure” and “We Don’t Talk About Bruno.”

Live-Action Film and Voice Acting

In 2015, he joined the production of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, contributing one song for a particular scene in a cantina. He also lent his voice as Gizmoduck in DuckTales. For live-action projects, he appeared on-screen as Jack the Lamplighter in the live-action reboot of Mary Poppins Returns. Then in 2019, he was back in the Star Wars world, penning yet another song, but this time, he added a cameo role as a resistance fighter to his repertoire.

Lin-Manuel the Filmmaker

In July 2021, Lin-Manuel Miranda made his directorial debut with his own film adaptation of Jonathan Larson’s autobiographical musical, tick, tick…BOOM!, which starred Andrew Garfield and Vanessa Hudgens. The film was released on Netflix and received rave reviews.

With this foray into filmmaking, it appears that there really is nothing stopping Lin-Manuel Miranda from doing it all in the entertainment industry.

What’s Next?

Fans of Lin-Manuel Miranda can look forward to his work on the live-action remake of Disney’s The Little Mermaid, in which he is confirmed to have written three to four original tunes. According to him, although they brought newly composed music, the beloved tunes from the original soundtrack ultimately remained intact. 

Fun Fact

Did you know that Lin-Manuel Miranda is the owner of the Drama Book Shop in New York City? It is said that Miranda wrote the original draft of In the Heights in the book shop, and so held a very special, sentimental place in his heart. Like a true-to-life Hollywood drama plot twist, he came to the book shop’s rescue upon learning that it was going out of business. That’s when Lin Manuel purchased the bookshop, along with fellow Hamilton collaborators, for it to stay open.

As an added fun fact, Lin-Manuel also founded Freestyle Love Supreme, a hip-hop improv group, in 2003. It’s successful in its own right, too, having gone on a world tour in the 2000s. It also became the subject of a Broadway musical and TV show, in fact. 

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