Daphne Rubin-Vega
Acting
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
Nov 14, 2025
Hazbin Hotel: Sing-Along
Oct 1, 2025
Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field
Sep 20, 2024
Reverse the Curse
Jun 14, 2024
Ezra
May 30, 2024
Allswell in New York
Nov 3, 2023
Bleecker
Jun 9, 2023
The Same Storm
Oct 14, 2022
tick, tick... BOOM!
Nov 11, 2021
In the Heights
Jun 10, 2021
25 Years of Rent: Measured in Love
Mar 2, 2021
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
Oct 8, 2020
Pitch Black Panacea
May 4, 2020
Revolution Rent
Nov 8, 2019
Rent
Jan 27, 2019
John Leguizamo's Latin History for Morons
Nov 2, 2018
The Holdouts
Jun 29, 2017
Emoticon
May 30, 2014
Fall to Rise
Apr 5, 2014
Union Square
Jul 7, 2011
Jack Goes Boating
Sep 17, 2010
F--k
Apr 7, 2010
Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway
Nov 21, 2008
Rachel Getting Married
Sep 3, 2008
Sex and the City
May 12, 2008
No Day But Today: The Story of 'Rent'
Aug 2, 2006
Alchemy
Apr 25, 2005
Virgin
Jun 14, 2003
Justice
May 8, 2003
Skeleton Woman
Oct 8, 2000