Actor
Daphne Rubin-Vega
56 years · Panama City, Panama · 39 films
Daphne Rubin-Vega (née Vega; born November 18, 1969) is a Panamanian-American actress, dancer, and singer-songwriter. She is best known for originating the roles of Mimi Marquez in the 1996 premiere of the Broadway musical Rent and Lucy in the 2007 premiere of the Off-Broadway play Jack Goes Boating. Rubin-Vega also appeared as Bombshell publicist Agnes in the second season of the TV series Smash (2012) and as Luisa Lopez in the TV series Katy Keene (2020). In 2021, Rubin-Vega starred as salon owner Daniela in the film adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda's In the Heights.
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Filmography 38
Rent: 30th Anniversary Concert
2026 · Actor
The Adding Machine
2026 · Mr. Zero
Twelfth Night
2025 · Maria
Hazbin Hotel: Sing-Along
2025 · Carmilla Carmine (voice)
Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field
2024 · Self
On Kanopy
Reverse the Curse
2024 · Eva
On Kanopy
Ezra
2024 · Agent Margo Jenkins
On Plex
Allswell in New York
2023 · Serene
On Kanopy
Bleecker
2023 · Kate
The Same Storm
2022 · Lupe Ramirez
tick, tick... BOOM!
2021 · "Sunday" Legend #14
On Netflix
In the Heights
2021 · Daniela
On TNT
25 Years of Rent: Measured in Love
2021 · Actor
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
2020 · Candle
Pitch Black Panacea
2020 · Narrator (voice)
Revolution Rent
2019 · Self
Rent
2019 · Self
John Leguizamo's Latin History for Morons
2018 · Self
The Holdouts
2017 · Rachel
On Hoopla
Emoticon
2014 · Anna
Fall to Rise
2014 · Sheila
Union Square
2011 · Sara
Jack Goes Boating
2010 · Lucy
On Philo
F--k
2010 · Daphne