Lin-Manuel Miranda has been added to the cast of the highly anticipated fantasy action series Percy Jackson and the Olympians. In the series, he will be seen as Hermes, the messenger of the gods. Lin-Manuel Miranda is a famous 42-year-old stage performer, composer, director, musician and actor, who made his debut in the 1996 film Clayton’s Friends as Pete. Percy Jackson and the Olympians is scheduled to premiere on Disney Plus in 2024. The fantasy series is inspired by the series of 5 novels of the same name by famous American writer Rick Riordan.
Ever since the original trailer was released on September 11, 2022, fans have been anxious to see how Season 1 of the show will unfold. Fans were even more excited when actor Lin-Manuel Miranda joined the group. Before Percy Jackson and the Olympic Athletes debuted on Disney Plus, we took a look at Lin-Manuel Miranda and his career.
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Lin-Manuel Miranda is the composer behind fan-favorite songs including Moana and Encanto.
Lin-Manuel Miranda is best known for playing Alexander Hamilton in the 2020 movie Hamilton. His other notable film roles are Jack in Mary Poppins Returns 2018 and Vivo in Vivo 2021. Miranda has also appeared in many shows. television, most notably Ruben Marcado in Do No Harm, Lee Scoresby in His Dark Materials and Gizmoduck/Sheriff Marshall Cabrera in Duck Fairy Tales. His other TV credits include The Sopranos, Sesame Street, Modern Family, How I Met Your Mother, BoJack Horseman, Brooklyn Nine-Nine and others.
Tick, Tick…Boom!, the popular and acclaimed 2021 film starring Andrew Garfield, marks the actor’s directorial debut. He has also composed music for movies like Disney’s Moana, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Encanto, etc. Lin-Manuel Miranda has starred in several famous plays in these past years, including In the Heights, Merrily We Roll Along, West Side Story, 21 Chump Street, Hamilton, Tick, Tick… Boom!, Les Misérables, Freestyle Love Supreme, and a few of them.
The actor has also appeared in documentaries such as The Odd Life of Timothy Green, Speech & Debate, Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado, Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decision to Go for It, Summer of Soul, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story and more.
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The new Disney Plus series was created by Dan Shotz and Jonathan E. Steinberg, along with cinematographer Pierre Gill. The series is executive produced by James Bobin, Rebecca Riordan, Rick Riordan, Bert Salke, Jim Rowe, Monica Owusu-Breen, Anders Engström, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Jet Wilkinson, Jeremy Bell and DJ Goldberg.
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