Daphne Rubin-Vega
Born: 1969-11-18
• Panama City, Panama
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.
Filmography
Twelfth Night
Hazbin Hotel: Sing-Along
Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field
Reverse the Curse
Ezra
Allswell in New York
Bleecker
The Same Storm
tick, tick... BOOM!
In the Heights
25 Years of Rent: Measured in Love
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
Pitch Black Panacea
Revolution Rent
Rent
John Leguizamo's Latin History for Morons
The Holdouts
Emoticon
Fall to Rise
Union Square
Jack Goes Boating
F--k
Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway
Rachel Getting Married
Sex and the City
No Day But Today: The Story of 'Rent'
Alchemy
Virgin
Justice
Skeleton Woman
Flawless
Wild Things
Sesame Street: Quiet Time
Sesame Street: Quiet Time
Lotto Land
I Like It Like That
The Occultist
Broadway: The Next Generation