Daphne Rubin-Vega

Daphne Rubin-Vega

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.

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 for Daphne Rubin-Vega...

Ezra
Title: Ezra
Character: Agent Margo Jenkins
Released: May 30, 2024
Type: Movie
Max Bernal is a stand-up comedian living with his father while struggling to co-parent his autistic son Ezra with his ex-wife. When forced to confront difficult decisions about their son's future, Max and Ezra embark on a cross-country road trip that has a transcendent impact on both their lives.
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Title: Hazbin Hotel
Character: Carmilla Carmine (voice)
Released: January 18, 2024
Type: TV
In attempt to find a non-violent alternative for reducing Hell's overpopulation, the daughter of Lucifer opens a rehabilitation hotel that offers a group of misfit demons a chance at redemption.
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Allswell in New York
Title: Allswell in New York
Character: Serene
Released: November 3, 2023
Type: Movie
Three Nuyorican sisters navigate the daunting life-challenges of single motherhood, career and family, all while finding humor and solace within the bonds of sisterhood in this absorbing dramedy.
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Title: The Changeling
Character: Mrs. Ortiz
Released: September 7, 2023
Type: TV
Apollo and Emma's love story is a fairy tale—until Emma mysteriously vanishes. Bereft, Apollo finds himself on a death-defying odyssey through a New York City he didn't know existed.
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Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field
Title: Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field
Released: June 15, 2023
Type: Movie
With idiosyncratic style and an eye toward the future of fashion, Patricia Field has always been shaping culture. Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field brings us into the mind of the one-of-a-kind visionary and queer icon.
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Bucky F*cking Dent
Title: Bucky F*cking Dent
Character: Eva
Released: June 10, 2023
Type: Movie
Follows Ted, an aimless thirtysomething who moves in with his father Marty when he develops a fatal illness. Marty’s health suffers every time the Boston Red Sox lose, so to keep him happy and alive, Ted enlists Marty’s grief counselor Mariana and friends to fake a Red Sox winning streak.
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Bleecker
Title: Bleecker
Character: Kate
Released: June 9, 2023
Type: Movie
Full of heart, humor, and a phenomenal ensemble, this dark comedy is about people who create little distractions for themselves in order to avoid dealing with what's really gnawing at their souls: big questions without answers. BLEECKER tells the intertwining stories of a motley of characters in NYC's Village. The straight face here is Maya, who has come to The Big Apple to find her place in this world. As Maya settles in, she starts to care about these folks, which leads her through twists and turns to her own self-purpose.
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Title: Accused
Character: Rose
Released: January 22, 2023
Type: TV
In this crime anthology series, viewers discover how an ordinary person got caught up in an extraordinary situation, ultimately revealing how one wrong turn leads to another, until it’s too late to turn back. Told from the defendant’s point of view, each episode opens in a courtroom on the accused without knowing their crime or how they ended up on trial.
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The Same Storm
Title: The Same Storm
Character: Lupe Ramirez
Released: October 14, 2022
Type: Movie
Snapshots of the tumults of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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tick, tick... BOOM!
Title: tick, tick... BOOM!
Character: "Sunday" Legend #14
Released: November 11, 2021
Type: Movie
On the brink of turning 30, a promising theater composer navigates love, friendship and the pressure to create something great before time runs out.
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In the Heights
Title: In the Heights
Character: Daniela
Released: June 10, 2021
Type: Movie
The story of Usnavi, a bodega owner who has mixed feelings about closing his store and retiring to the Dominican Republic or staying in Washington Heights.
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25 Years of Rent: Measured in Love
Title: 25 Years of Rent: Measured in Love
Released: March 2, 2021
Type: Movie
A quarter century ago, Jonathan Larson’s groundbreaking musical, RENT, opened at New York Theatre Workshop. From its humble beginnings at NYTW, this rock musical went on to shape a generation. What began in the East Village traveled to Broadway, across the nation and around the world. On March 2, 2021, NYTW held its biggest fundraising event of the year, 25 YEARS OF RENT: MEASURED IN LOVE. This virtual celebration of RENT and its impact on the collective cultural consciousness featured a selection of iconic songs by some of today’s most beloved recording and theatre artists, exclusive content uncovering how RENT came to life, and reflections on the driving force of Jonathan’s legacy in the American theatre.
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The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
Title: The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
Character: Candle
Released: October 8, 2020
Type: Movie
An all-star livestream benefit performance of scenes from Angels in America in support of amfAR’s Fund to Fight COVID-19.
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Pitch Black Panacea
Title: Pitch Black Panacea
Character: Narrator
Released: May 1, 2020
Type: Movie
Amy and Carl both have lazy eyes. Amy’s left and Carl’s right. They are strangers, volunteers for an unusual, life-altering treatment in which they will enter a completely dark room together for ten days. But in the hallucination-inducing darkness, they are forced to confront personal demons.
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Title: Tales of the City
Character: Mrs. Rodriguez
Released: June 7, 2019
Type: TV
Mary Ann returns to present-day San Francisco and is reunited with her daughter and ex-husband, twenty years after leaving them behind to pursue her career. Fleeing the midlife crisis that her picture-perfect Connecticut life created, Mary Ann is quickly drawn back into the orbit of Anna Madrigal, her chosen family and a new generation of queer young residents living at 28 Barbary Lane.
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Rent
Title: Rent
Character: Herself
Released: January 27, 2019
Type: Movie
The story of several friends in New York City facing financial poverty, homophobia, AIDS, and, of course, rent.
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John Leguizamo's Latin History for Morons
Title: John Leguizamo's Latin History for Morons
Character: Self
Released: November 2, 2018
Type: Movie
In this one-man Broadway show, John Leguizamo finds humor and heartbreak as he traces 3,000 years of Latin history in an effort to help his bullied son.
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Title: New Amsterdam
Character: Christy Cummings
Released: September 25, 2018
Type: TV
The new medical director breaks the rules to heal the system at America's oldest public hospital. Max Goodwin sets out to tear up the bureaucracy and provide exceptional care, but the doctors and staff are not so sure he can succeed. They've heard this before. Not taking "no" for an answer, Dr. Goodwin's instinctive response to problems large and small is four simple words: "How can I help?" He has to disrupt the status quo and prove he'll stop at nothing to breathe new life into this underfunded and underappreciated hospital, returning it to the glory that put it on the map.
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Broadway: The Next Generation
Title: Broadway: The Next Generation
Released: November 16, 2017
Type: Movie
A look at the past, present and future of the Great White Way.
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The Holdouts
Title: The Holdouts
Character: Rachel
Released: June 29, 2017
Type: Movie
A comedy about New Yorkers who can’t afford to live in New York anymore
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Emoticon
Title: Emoticon
Character: Anna
Released: May 30, 2014
Type: Movie
Elena Gallenti is an anthropology graduate student struggling to complete her thesis on 'modern means of communication.' All that changes when she meets her new boyfriend's teenage kids, who are going through their own journeys of self-discovery. All of them learn to navigate love and intimacy in the digital age.
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Fall to Rise
Title: Fall to Rise
Character: Sheila
Released: April 5, 2014
Type: Movie
A famous dancer is fired after an injury and thrust into the role of motherhood.
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Title: The Blacklist
Character: Delores Knapp
Released: September 23, 2013
Type: TV
Raymond "Red" Reddington, one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives, surrenders in person at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. He claims that he and the FBI have the same interests: bringing down dangerous criminals and terrorists. In the last two decades, he's made a list of criminals and terrorists that matter the most but the FBI cannot find because it does not know they exist. Reddington calls this "The Blacklist". Reddington will co-operate, but insists that he will speak only to Elizabeth Keen, a rookie FBI profiler.
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Title: Smash
Character: Agnes
Released: February 6, 2012
Type: TV
A songwriting duo tries to create a hit with a Broadway musical based on the life of Marilyn Monroe.
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Title: Hustling
Released: November 19, 2011
Type: TV
Since working as an adult film star and escort since his early twenties, Ryan Crosby, aka Rod Driver, has had a pretty easy life when you think about it. But what happens when you hit forty and the clients aren't calling as much as they used to and doing porn has, well... lost its appeal. Suddenly you begin to see things a bit clearer and you begin to ask yourself questions. What am I doing with my life? Is there something else I can do? What am I passionate about? You realize that you need to make a change. But how do you move forward from the life you no longer want? After an awkward meeting with a career counselor, who tries to extract information about his job history, Ryan heads home and the weight of his situation hits him hard.
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Union Square
Title: Union Square
Character: Sara
Released: July 7, 2011
Type: Movie
Jenny has rejected her tumultuous family and cut off communication, seeking a more ordered life far from her roots in the Bronx. And she's almost ready to commit to her longtime fiancé when her sister Lucy — the personification of all that Jenny has been trying to flee — surprises her at a critical time. Lucy and Jenny's combustible reunion brings both of them to unforeseen places, shattering and reconstructing the worlds they have both carefully constructed.
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Jack Goes Boating
Title: Jack Goes Boating
Character: Lucy
Released: September 17, 2010
Type: Movie
A limo driver's blind date sparks a tale of love, betrayal, friendship and grace—centered around two working-class New York City couples.
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F--k
Title: F--k
Character: Daphne
Released: April 7, 2010
Type: Movie
Some people will do anything to find the location.
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Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway
Title: Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway
Character: Herself (uncredited)
Released: November 21, 2008
Type: Movie
Set in New York City's gritty East Village, the revolutionary rock opera RENT tells the story of a group of bohemians struggling to live and pay their rent. "Measuring their lives in love," these starving artists strive for success and acceptance while enduring the obstacles of poverty, illness and the AIDS epidemic.
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Rachel Getting Married
Title: Rachel Getting Married
Character: Wedding Guest
Released: September 3, 2008
Type: Movie
A young woman who has been in and out from rehab for the past 10 years returns home for the weekend for her sister's wedding.
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Sex and the City
Title: Sex and the City
Character: Baby Voiced Woman
Released: May 12, 2008
Type: Movie
A New York writer on sex and love is finally getting married to her Mr. Big. But her three best girlfriends must console her after one of them inadvertently leads Mr. Big to jilt her.
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No Day But Today: The Story of 'Rent'
Title: No Day But Today: The Story of 'Rent'
Character: Herself
Released: August 2, 2006
Type: Movie
Feature length documentary about Jonathan Larson and "Rent"'s journey from Broadway to the screen. Featuring director Chris Columbus, the entire cast, and dozens of friends and family of Jonathan Larson.
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Alchemy
Title: Alchemy
Character: Belladonna Editor
Released: April 25, 2005
Type: Movie
Can an university computer scientist (Cavanagh) make a woman fall in love with his interactive computer before she succumbs to a well-known professor?
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Title: Hey Joel
Released: June 3, 2003
Type: TV
Hey Joel is an American animated television series. It is about Joel Stein, the host of a three-minute rock-star interview show on VH1 called "3 minutes with Joel". However, he is anything but respectful to his famous guests, often badgering them with aggressive, pointless, irreverent, and often insulting questions. Jon Cryer provides the voicing for the part of Joel. His coworkers include Michele, his producer, on whom he has a crush; Kevin, his production assistant; Leif, his nemesis, who is VH1's star; and Z, the all-business head of programming. The band Fountains of Wayne performs their own original compositions for the show, and appear as animated characters during the musical sequences. After an initial run on VH1 in 2003, the show was picked up by Teletoon, and episodes continue to air in Canada. The first season was made available on DVD June 24, 2008.
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Justice
Title: Justice
Character: Roberta
Released: May 8, 2003
Type: Movie
A comic strip writer in NYC, still grieving over the death of a friend in 9/11, gets his publisher to agree to a limited run of "Justice", a comic book about an ordinary person who is a hero.
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Virgin
Title: Virgin
Character: Frances
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
When a teenager finds herself pregnant, with no memory of having had sex, she determines that she is carrying the child of God.
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Title: Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Character: Carmen Mendoza
Released: September 30, 2001
Type: TV
The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following the intense psychological approaches the Major Case Squad uses to solve its crimes.
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Flawless
Title: Flawless
Character: Tia
Released: November 26, 1999
Type: Movie
An ultraconservative police officer suffers a debilitating stroke and is assigned to a rehabilitative program that includes singing lessons - with the drag queen next door.
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Wild Things
Title: Wild Things
Character: Detective Gloria Perez
Released: March 20, 1998
Type: Movie
When teen-socialite Kelly Van Ryan and troubled bad girl Suzie Toller accuse guidance counselor Sam Lombardo of rape, he's suspended by the school, rejected by the town, and fighting to get his life back. One cop suspects conspiracy, but nothing is what it seems...
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Sesame Street: Quiet Time
Title: Sesame Street: Quiet Time
Character: Herself
Released: April 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Quiet Time is a Sesame Street video released on April 1, 1997. Big Bird wants to find out what to do at "quiet time." He asks his friends for suggestions, which include reading, drawing, and napping. A countdown of the Top Ten quiet time ideas appear periodically (announced by David Rudman) on a Campbell's Soup can, including such ideas as "Practice your giraffe imitation."
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Sesame Street: Quiet Time
Title: Sesame Street: Quiet Time
Character: Self
Released: April 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Quiet Time is a Sesame Street video released on April 1, 1997. Big Bird wants to find out what to do at "quiet time." He asks his friends for suggestions, which include reading, drawing, and napping. A countdown of the Top Ten quiet time ideas appear periodically (announced by David Rudman) on a Campbell's Soup can, including such ideas as "Practice your giraffe imitation."
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Title: Spin City
Character: Daphne Rubin-Vega
Released: September 17, 1996
Type: TV
Workaholic Mike Flaherty is the Deputy Mayor of New York City, serving as Mayor Randall Winston's key strategist and much-needed handler. Mike runs the city with the help of his oddball staff: an anxious and insecure press secretary; a sexist, boorish chief of staff; an impeccably groomed gay activist running minority affairs; a sharp and efficient, man-crazy accountant; and an idealistic young speechwriter. Like Mike, they are all professionally capable but personally challenged.
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Title: The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Character: Self - Cast of Rent
Released: June 10, 1996
Type: TV
The Rosie O'Donnell Show was an American daytime television talk show hosted and produced by actress and comedian Rosie O'Donnell. It aired for six seasons from 1996 to 2002. Topics often discussed on the show include Broadway, children, extended families and charitable works, people and organizations. The show was based out of Studio 8G at NBC's Rockefeller Center studios in New York City, NY, USA and was produced and syndicated by KidRo Productions, Telepictures Productions and Warner Bros. Television.
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Title: Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Character: Little Juana (voice)
Released: March 12, 1995
Type: TV
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child is an American anthology animated television series.
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I Like It Like That
Title: I Like It Like That
Character: Modeling School Receptionist
Released: October 14, 1994
Type: Movie
Lisette and husband Chino face marital difficulties. She is fed up with the kids, while he has job troubles. His mother Rosaria hates Lisette and the neighborhood tramp has designs on Chino. Things get even worse when Chino goes to jail and Lisette gets a good job uptown. Can this marriage be saved?
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The Occultist
Title: The Occultist
Character: Simone (as Daphne)
Released: November 1, 1988
Type: Movie
A cyborg private eye is hired to protect a Caribbean president visiting New York City. Unknown to him, the president's daughter is in league with his country's rebels who are trying to assassinate him.
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Title: LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Character: Self - Guest
Released: September 5, 1988
Type: TV
A morning talk show with A-list celebrity guests, top-notch performances and one-of-a-kind segments that are unrivaled on daytime television, plus spontaneous, hilarious and unpredictable talk.
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Title: Tony Awards
Character: Self - Performer
Released: April 1, 1956
Type: TV
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway productions and performances, and an award is given for regional theatre.