Daphne Rubin-Vega

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1969-11-18 (56 years old)

Place of Birth

Panama City, Panama

Daphne Rubin-Vega

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.

Acting

1998

Wild Things

as Detective Gloria Perez

1994

I Like It Like That

as Modeling School Receptionist

2021

tick, tick... BOOM!

as "Sunday" Legend #14

2005

Alchemy

as Belladonna Editor

2011

2008

Rachel Getting Married

as Wedding Guest

2014

Emoticon

as Anna

2014

Fall to Rise

as Sheila

2024

Ezra

as Agent Margo Jenkins

2017

The Holdouts

as Rachel

2003

Justice

as Roberta

2008

Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway

as Herself (uncredited)

1988

The Occultist

as Simone (as Daphne)

2003

Virgin

as Frances

1999

Flawless

as Tia

2019

Rent

as Herself

2021

In the Heights

as Daniela

2010

F--k

as Daphne

2020

Pitch Black Panacea

as Narrator (voice)

2008

Sex and the City

as Baby Voiced Woman

2023

Bleecker

as Kate

2022

The Same Storm

as Lupe Ramirez

2019

Production

2023

Allswell in New York

as Co-Producer

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