Overview
Daphne Rubin-Vega
Known For
Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field
Enter the colorful world of Emmy-winning, Oscar-nominated Patricia Field, the...
25 Years of Rent: Measured in Love
A quarter century ago, Jonathan Larson’s groundbreaking musical, RENT, opened...
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
An all-star livestream benefit performance of scenes from Angels in...
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.