Daphne Rubin-Vega

Daphne Rubin-Vega

Birthday: 1969-11-18

Place of Birth: Panama City, Panama

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.

Movies

Wild Things
Wild Things

When teen-socialite Kelly Van Ryan and troubled bad girl Suzie Toller accuse guidance counselor Sam ...

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I Like It Like That
I Like It Like That

After her husband is arrested for looting, Lisette struggles for independence while dealing with her...

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tick, tick... BOOM!
tick, tick... BOOM!

On the brink of turning 30, a promising theater composer navigates love, friendship and the pressure...

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Alchemy
Alchemy

Can an university computer scientist (Cavanagh) make a woman fall in love with his interactive compu...

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Sesame Street: Quiet Time
Sesame Street: Quiet Time

Quiet Time is a Sesame Street video released on April 1, 1997. Big Bird wants to find out what to do...

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Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field
Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field

Enter the colorful world of Emmy-winning, Oscar-nominated Patricia Field, the costume designer behin...

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Reverse the Curse
Reverse the Curse

Follows Ted, an aimless thirtysomething who moves in with his father Marty when he develops a fatal ...

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Union Square
Union Square

Jenny has rejected her tumultuous family and cut off communication, seeking a more ordered life far ...

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Allswell in New York
Allswell in New York

Three Nuyorican sisters navigate the daunting life challenges of single motherhood, career, and fami...

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Rachel Getting Married
Rachel Getting Married

A young woman who has been in and out from rehab for the past 10 years returns home for the weekend ...

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Jack Goes Boating
Jack Goes Boating

A limo driver's blind date sparks a tale of love, betrayal, friendship and grace—centered around two...

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Emoticon
Emoticon

Elena Gallenti is an anthropology graduate student struggling to complete her thesis on 'modern mean...

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Fall to Rise
Fall to Rise

A famous dancer is fired after an injury and thrust into the role of motherhood....

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Broadway: The Next Generation
Broadway: The Next Generation

A look at the past, present and future of the Great White Way....

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Ezra
Ezra

Stand-up comedian Max Bernal lives with his father Stan while struggling to co-parent his autistic s...

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The Holdouts
The Holdouts

A comedy about New Yorkers who can’t afford to live in New York anymore...

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Justice
Justice

A comic strip writer in NYC, still grieving over the death of a friend in 9/11, gets his publisher t...

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Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway
Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway

Set in New York City's gritty East Village, the revolutionary rock opera RENT tells the story of a g...

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The Occultist
The Occultist

A cyborg private eye is hired to protect a Caribbean president visiting New York City. Unknown to hi...

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Virgin
Virgin

When a teenager finds herself pregnant, with no memory of having had sex, she determines that she is...

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Flawless
Flawless

An ultraconservative police officer suffers a debilitating stroke and is assigned to a rehabilitativ...

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Rent
Rent

The story of several friends in New York City facing financial poverty, homophobia, AIDS, and, of co...

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John Leguizamo's Latin History for Morons
John Leguizamo's Latin History for Morons

In this one-man Broadway show, John Leguizamo finds humor and heartbreak as he traces 3,000 years of...

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In the Heights
In the Heights

The story of Usnavi, a bodega owner who has mixed feelings about closing his store and retiring to t...

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F--k
F--k

Some people will do anything to find the location....

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Pitch Black Panacea
Pitch Black Panacea

Amy and Carl both have lazy eyes. Amy’s left and Carl’s right. They are strangers, volunteers for an...

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Sesame Street: Quiet Time
Sesame Street: Quiet Time

Quiet Time is a Sesame Street video released on April 1, 1997. Big Bird wants to find out what to do...

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Sex and the City
Sex and the City

A New York writer on sex and love is finally getting married to her Mr. Big. But her three best girl...

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Bleecker
Bleecker

Full of heart, humor, and a phenomenal ensemble, this dark comedy is about people who create little ...

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No Day But Today: The Story of 'Rent'
No Day But Today: The Story of 'Rent'

Feature length documentary about Jonathan Larson and "Rent"'s journey from Broadway to the screen. F...

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The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America

An all-star livestream benefit performance of scenes from Angels in America in support of amfAR’s Fu...

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25 Years of Rent: Measured in Love
25 Years of Rent: Measured in Love

A quarter century ago, Jonathan Larson’s groundbreaking musical, RENT, opened at New York Theatre Wo...

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The Same Storm
The Same Storm

Snapshots of the tumults of the COVID-19 pandemic....

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Revolution Rent
Revolution Rent

A Cuban-American director travels to his exiled parents' homeland to mount a stage production of the...

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Hazbin Hotel: Sing-Along
Hazbin Hotel: Sing-Along

In attempt to find a non-violent alternative for reducing Hell's overpopulation, the daughter of Luc...

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Skeleton Woman
Skeleton Woman

A lesbian stripper lives with her lover, a novelist with writer's block who cheats on her with anoth...

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Twelfth Night
Twelfth Night

Join us to revel in the midsummer madness as twins Sebastian and Viola survive shipwreck, revenge pl...

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