Daphne Rubin-Vega

Actor

Born November 18, 1969 in 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.

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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

The Adding Machine
Film, 2026
as Mr. Zero
Twelfth Night
Film, 2025
as Maria
Hazbin Hotel: Sing-Along
Film, 2025
as Carmilla Carmine (voice)
Reverse the Curse
Film, 2024
as Eva
Ezra
Film, 2024
as Agent Margo Jenkins
Hazbin Hotel
TV series, 2024
as Carmilla Carmine (voice)
Allswell in New York
Film, 2023
as Serene
The Changeling
TV series, 2023
as Mrs. Ortiz
Bleecker
Film, 2023
as Kate
Accused
TV series, 2023
as Rose
The Same Storm
Film, 2022
as Lupe Ramirez
tick, tick... BOOM!
Film, 2021
as "Sunday" Legend #14
Only Murders in the Building
TV series, 2021
as Inez
In the Heights
Film, 2021
as Daniela
25 Years of Rent: Measured in Love
Film, 2021
Social Distance
TV series, 2020
as Reina Villareal
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
Film, 2020
as Candle
Pitch Black Panacea
Film, 2020
as Narrator (voice)
Tales of the City
TV series, 2019
as Mrs. Rodriguez
New Amsterdam
TV series, 2018
as Christy Cummings
The Holdouts
Film, 2017
as Rachel
Emoticon
Film, 2014
as Anna
Fall to Rise
Film, 2014
as Sheila
The Blacklist
TV series, 2013
as Delores Knapp
Smash
TV series, 2012
as Agnes
Hustling
TV series, 2011
12 episodes
Union Square
Film, 2011
as Sara
Jack Goes Boating
Film, 2010
as Lucy
F--k
Film, 2010
as Daphne
Rachel Getting Married
Film, 2008
as Wedding Guest