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Daphne Rubin-Vega

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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.

Daphne Rubin-Vega

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Films Featuring Daphne Rubin-Vega

Wild Things

I Like It Like That

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Alchemy

Sesame Street: Quiet Time

Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field

Reverse the Curse

Union Square

Allswell in New York

Rachel Getting Married

Jack Goes Boating

Emoticon

Fall to Rise

Broadway: The Next Generation

Ezra

The Holdouts

Justice

Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway

The Occultist

Virgin

Flawless

Rent

John Leguizamo's Latin History for Morons

In the Heights

F--k

Pitch Black Panacea

Sesame Street: Quiet Time

Sex and the City

Bleecker

No Day But Today: The Story of 'Rent'

The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America

25 Years of Rent: Measured in Love

The Same Storm

Revolution Rent

Hazbin Hotel: Sing-Along

Skeleton Woman

Twelfth Night

Lotto Land

The Adding Machine