Daphne Rubin-Vega
Known for: Acting
Born: November 18, 1969
Place of birth: 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.
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Filmography
38 movies · 19 TV shows, newest first
NR
The Adding Machine
2026
7.0
Twelfth Night
2025
7.5
Hazbin Hotel: Sing-Along
2025
NR
Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field
2024
5.8
Reverse the Curse
2024
6.9
Ezra
2024
8.6
Hazbin Hotel
2024
3.0
Allswell in New York
2023
6.4
The Changeling
2023
6.5
The Horror of Dolores Roach
2023
1.0
Bleecker
2023
6.8
Accused
2023
8.0
The Same Storm
2022
7.6
tick, tick... BOOM!
2021
8.4
Only Murders in the Building
2021
7.1
In the Heights
2021
10.0
25 Years of Rent: Measured in Love
2021
6.3
Social Distance
2020
10.0
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
2020
6.1
Pitch Black Panacea
2020
NR
Revolution Rent
2019
6.8
Tales of the City
2019
6.7
Rent
2019
7.0
John Leguizamo's Latin History for Morons
2018
8.3
New Amsterdam
2018
NR
The Holdouts
2017
2.0
Emoticon
2014
NR
Fall to Rise
2014
7.6
The Blacklist
2013
6.4
Smash
2012
6.0
Hustling
2011
4.7
Union Square
2011
6.0
Jack Goes Boating
2010
5.8
F--k
2010
7.9
Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway
2008
6.3
Rachel Getting Married
2008
6.5
Sex and the City
2008
7.9
No Day But Today: The Story of 'Rent'
2006
5.5
Alchemy
2005
4.8
Virgin
2003
7.0
Hey Joel
2003
5.0
Justice
2003
7.6
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
3.3
Skeleton Woman
2000
6.1
Flawless
1999
6.4
Wild Things
1998
6.0
Sesame Street: Quiet Time
1997
7.0
Spin City
1996
4.1
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996
5.0
Lotto Land
1995
6.3
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995
6.3
I Like It Like That
1994
4.8
The Occultist
1988
5.6
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
6.1
Great Performances
1971
NR
Tony Awards
1956
NR
Broadway: The Next Generation
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