Daphne Rubin-Vega
Acting
Biography
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.
As actor 56
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
The Blacklist
2013
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Great Performances
1971
Tony Awards
1956
Only Murders in the Building
2021
New Amsterdam
2018
Spin City
1996
Hazbin Hotel
2024
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995
Accused
2023
Smash
2012
Sex and the City
2008
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996
Tales of the City
2019
Wild Things
1998
The Changeling
2023
In the Heights
2021
tick, tick... BOOM!
2021
Rachel Getting Married
2008
Hey Joel
2003
Social Distance
2020
Ezra
2024
Flawless
1999
Broadway: The Next Generation
Hustling
2011
Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway
2008
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
2020
Allswell in New York
2023
Reverse the Curse
2024
Twelfth Night
2025
Hazbin Hotel: Sing-Along
2025
Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field
2024
25 Years of Rent: Measured in Love
2021
Rent
2019
Union Square
2011
Jack Goes Boating
2010
Sesame Street: Quiet Time
1997
Virgin
2003
The Same Storm
2022
No Day But Today: The Story of 'Rent'
2006
Lotto Land
1995
I Like It Like That
1994
Revolution Rent
2019
John Leguizamo's Latin History for Morons
2018
Alchemy
2005
Emoticon
2014
F--k
2010
The Adding Machine
2026
Justice
2003
The Holdouts
2017
Pitch Black Panacea
2020
The Occultist
1988
Bleecker
2023
Skeleton Woman
2000
Fall to Rise
2014
