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