Panamanian-born singer-actress Daphne Rubin-Vega shot to stardom in 1996 as Mimi, the AIDS-stricken stripper heroine of the late Jonathan Larson's award-winning musical "Rent". The attractive brunette nicely projected the mixture of edginess and naivete that the role required and she earned numerous accolades for her work, including a Tony Award nomination for Actress in a Musical.Rubin-Vega is the youngest of three children. Her father, a carpenter, died when she was two and the following year she was sent to Washington, DC to live with an aunt. At age nine, she reunited with her mother and
