Multiple award-winning actor, Lin-Manuel Miranda, will be playing the role of Greek god Hermes, in the new Disney+ series ‘Percy Jackson and the Olympians’.
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The 8-episode series begins with 12-year-old demigod Percy Jackson being accused of stealing the lighting bolt of the Greek god.
Hermes is portrayed as having a bad relationship with his half-son, Luke, played out by Charlie Bushnell.
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Who Is Lin-Manuel Miranda?
Lin-Manuel Miranda is an American actor, director and songwriter, best known for being the brain behind the Broadway musicals Hamilton, In the Heights, and the soundtrack of Disney’s Encanto.
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Miranda directed the movie Tick, Tick…Boom! in 2021, and played a voice role in the animated film Vivo.
On television, Miranda appeared in The Electric Company, His Dark Materials, and played host on a 2016 edition of Saturday Night Live.
Miranda has won several awards including three Tony Awards, three Grammy Awards, two Laurence Olivier Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, one Annie Award, a MacArthur Fellowship Award, a Kennedy Center Honor, and a Pulitzer Prize.
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