Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda is just one “O” shy of joining that rarified club, which includes John Legend, Rita Moreno, and Mel Brooks. After that, we very quickly gave each other keys to our apartments.Only 16 people dead or alive have ever attained the showbiz grand slam known as the EGOT, that rare feat of winning an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony. As Miranda told The New York Times, 'I very coolly said, 'All right, you’re going to come over to my house tonight, and we’re going to play Grand Theft Auto and watch the Jay-Z movie and listen to Marc Anthony. He’s really, really smart.' They bonded over Grand Theft Auto.Īfter his show, Miranda and Nadal stood outside and Nadal compared the traffic to the video game Grand Theft Auto, which she loved. It was at that performance that Nadal realized that she was falling for him, and told The New York Times, 'When he came onstage, I thought, I really like this guy. Too shy to ask for it himself, Miranda got one of his friends to ask for Nadal's phone number, so that he could invite her to another show a few weeks later. She turned up, but according to Nadal, she didn't think Miranda was interested in her, as she told the publication, 'It was a huge group so he didn’t talk to me the whole night.' He decided to invite her to a Freestyle Love Supreme show, the 'popular hip-hop improv troupe, using words audience members threw at them like tennis balls,' per The New York Times.

Miranda came across Nadal's profile on Facebook in 2005. Bruce Glikas // Getty Images Lin-Manuel Miranda reached out to his future wife on Facebook. Lin-Manuel Miranda and Vanessa Nadal on March 19, 2009. Miranda could never manage to talk to Vanessa Adriana Nadal, a Latino sophomore he admired.' The composer told the newspaper, 'She was gorgeous and I’m famously bad at talking to women I find attractive. Upon the couple's wedding in 2010, The New York Times reported, 'throughout his senior year Mr. They attended the same high school.Īlthough they never dated as teenagers, Miranda and Nadal both attended Hunter College High School. Here's everything else you need to know about Lin-Manuel Miranda's wife, Vanessa Nadal.

Nadal describes herself as an 'attorney, engineer, profesora,' on her Twitter acount. Alongside Hamilton's nomination in the Best Motion Picture–Musical or Comedy category, Miranda received a nod for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture–Musical or Comedy, which is completely unsurprising, tbh.įans of the Oscar-winning composer might not realize that Miranda has been happily married for a decade to a woman he went to high school with. If, like the rest of the world, you've been devouring Hamilton since it dropped on Disney+, and excitedly following the show's Golden Globe nominations, then you're likely wondering about Lin-Manuel Miranda's marital status.

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