Lin-Manuel Miranda is mostly famous for movies like Mary Poppins Returns and Speech & Debate, and also Hamilton and In the Heights – two very successful Broadway musicals.
However, he is a man of many talents – apart from being an actor and TV producer he is also a songwriter and rapper. He has won multiple show-business awards, like Grammy, Tony, Oliver and Emmy awards. He’s even had an Academy Award nomination! Want to try and guess how much is Lin-Manuel Miranda worth? Lin-Manuel Maranda’s net worth is a very impressive 40 million USD.
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House in Manhattan
In 2008, the year he won his Tony Award, Lin-Manuel Miranda purchased a house on Manhattan Island in New York, which he owns together with his farther, Luis A. Miranda.
The house was large – 1,125 square feet – and had three bedrooms and two bathrooms. His parents lived in the house until it was sold in 2013 for almost 950 thousand USD.
Income Source of Lin-Manuel
As we’ve mentioned above, Lin-Manuel Miranda has been successful in many professions – from actor to composer to rapper – which has earned Lin-Manuel Miranda a net worth of 40 million USD. He’s worked on many motion pictures and TV shows – both acting in them and being in charge of the music.
Some of the shows he’s worked on and had small roles in include How I met your mother, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Modern Family and Good Cop, Bad Cop.
Earning from Hamilton
Lin-Manuel Miranda became extremely famous after writing both music and lyrics to the successful musical Hamilton – a show based on the biography of American statesman and politician Alexander Hamilton.
The budget of the show was only 12.5 million USD, but it became a huge success and was very popular in 2016-2017, and made a revenue of 1.45 billion USD. The shows profits are estimated to be approximately 105 thousand USD a week, and 7% of that goes to Lin Manuel Miranda. He has already earned 6 million USD from this musical.
Multiple Career
Lin-Manuel Miranda has appeared as an actor in many famous films and shows, including Bartlett, Looking for Maria Sanchez and Do No Harm among others.
He is also the person responsible for the music to many motion pictures, cartoons, TV series and award ceremonies. These include Moana, Marry Poppins Returns, Ralph Breaks the Internet, America Got Talent and others.
He’s also acted as the producer for Claton’s Friends, In the Heights, Hamilton’s America and he wrote the song How I’ll Go that was featured in the animated film Moana. Having participated in so many successful projects, it’s no wonder Lin-Manuel Miranda net worth is so impressive.
Earned $4 million from his Books
Lin-Manuel Miranda is the author of 4 books, which came out in 2006, 2008, 2016 and 2018: Hamilton: The Revolution, In the Heights, Hamilton Songbook: Vocal Sections and Gmorning, Gnight!: Little Pep Talks for Me and You.
The book Hamilton: The Revolution has won a number of awards – Audiobook of the Year and APA Audie Award. The book stayed on the New York Times bestseller list for a number of weeks and sold very many copies, especially in 2014 and 2015. His income from his books is said to be approximately 4 million USD.
Raising $15 million for fund
After the horrendous damage that was cause in Puerto Rico by Hurricane Maria, Lin-Manuel Miranda was one of the people most actively involved in raising money to help the country. It is said that his personal contribution to the cause comes to about 15 million USD and this includes the profits of performances of the musical Hamilton in Puerto Rico.