Daphne Rubin-Vega will be having a smashing year on television in 2013…
The 42-year-old Panamanian actress and two-time Tony Award-nominated actress/singer will be appearing on the second season of NBC’s musical drama Smash, according to Entertainment Weekly.
Rubin-Vega—who played a heroin-addicted 19-year-old with HIV who works as an exotic dancer in the original Broadway production of Rent—will play a Broadway publicist on the series.
Rubin-Vega began her musical career as the lead singer of Pajama Party, a Latin freestyle group that placed three songs on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1989 and 1990.
She most recently appeared on Broadway in a new revival of Tennessee Williams‘A Streetcar Named Desire, in which she played the role of Stella Kowalski opposite Blair Underwood as Stanley.
Daphne Rubin-Vega has landed the mother of a role… The 49-year-old Panamanian actress, singer and dancerwill appear in a major recurring role on the CW’s upcoming Riverdale off-shoot Katy Keene. Rubin-Vega, the original Mimi in both the Off Broadway and Broadway landmark productions of Rentand coming off the Lin Manuel/Warner Bros. feature In The Heights, will play Luisa, the mother of…
Daphne Rubin-Vega could be returning to television in the near future The 42-year-old Panamanian actress, who appeared on the second season of NBC’s Broadway-based musical series Smash, has signed on for a recurring role on ABC’s Richard LaGravenese drama pilot. Similar to Dangerous Liaisons, the untitled project is set in…
Daphne Rubin-Vega is checking in to a new project… The 54-year-old Panamanian-American actress, singer-songwriter, dancer and Broadway star will make a guest appearance in Vivienne Medrano’s adult animated musical comedy series Hazbin Hotel. Rubin-Vega will portray Carmilla Carmine on the series. Prime Video will premiere Hazbin Hotel on January 19, with episodes…