Dina Spybey | |
|---|---|
| Born | August 29, 1965 |
| Other names | Dina Waters Dina Spybey-Waters |
| Alma mater | Ohio State University Rutgers University (MFA) |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1992–present |
| Spouse | |
Dina Spybey (born August 29, 1965), also known as Dina Waters and Dina Spybey-Waters, is an American actress. She has appeared in more than 20 films, including John Q., subUrbia and The Haunted Mansion. She is perhaps best known for her role as Tracy Montrose Blair on the first season of Six Feet Under. She played "young Elise Eliot" in The First Wives Club and a ghost named Emma in Disney's film The Haunted Mansion.
Spybey attended undergraduate studies at Ohio State and then received her M.F.A. from Rutgers University at the Mason Gross School of the Arts.
Spybey's early career focused on theater. In 1993 she appeared in the Off-Broadway play Five Women Wearing the Same Dress.[1] After three more Off-Broadway productions, from 1994 to 1996, she made her Broadway theatre debut in a 1999 production of The Iceman Cometh, at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre.
Her first television role, in a 1992 episode of the after school special series Lifestories: Families in Crisis, predated her first Off-Broadway role. This performance, as Becky Bell in "Public Law 106: The Becky Bell Story", earned Spybey the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in a Children's Special.[2]
Her appearances in film and on television escalated from 1996 onward. Spybey was the character Dottie in Greg the Bunny, was in the main cast for the first season of Remember WENN, and also played a stripper colleague of Demi Moore's in Striptease. She played a supporting role in her husband Mark Waters' film Just Like Heaven (2005). Spybey portrayed a ghost named Emma in the 2003 Disney movie The Haunted Mansion. She had a small role in Waters' Freaky Friday.
She also appeared in the ninth-season premiere of Frasier ("Don Juan in Hell”) in 2001 in the role of Nanette Guzman, Frasier Crane's first wife.[3] She was one of three actresses – after Emma Thompson and before Laurie Metcalf – to play a specific point-in-time version of the character over the course of Cheers and Frasier.
Note: credited as Dina Spybey through end of 2000, credited as Dina Waters from 2001 onward, except a single 2019 film credit as Dina Spybey-Waters.
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Big Night | Natalie | |
| 1996 | Striptease | Monique, Jr. | |
| 1996 | SubUrbia | Bee-Bee | |
| 1997 | Julian Po | Dee | |
| 1997 | An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn | Allessandra | |
| 1998 | Getting Personal | Liz Carderelli | |
| 1999 | Advice from a Caterpillar | Young Woman | |
| 2000 | Isn't She Great | Bambi Madison | |
| 2002 | John Q. | Debby Utley | starts using Dina Waters credit hereafter |
| 2002 | Full Frontal | Third Fired Employee | |
| 2003 | Freaky Friday | Dottie Robertson | |
| 2003 | The Haunted Mansion | Emma | |
| 2005 | Just Like Heaven | Abby | |
| 2008 | Yoga Matt | Bonnie Putterman | Short film |
| 2019 | Chasing Molly | Janet | credited as Dina Spybey-Waters |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Lifestories: Families in Crisis | Becky Bell | Episode: "Public Law 106: The Becky Bell Story" |
| 1993 | CBS Schoolbreak Special | Leanne Strauss | Episode: "If I Die Before I Wake" |
| 1996 | The X-Files | FBI Archivist | Episode: "Pusher" |
| 1996 | Remember WENN | Celia Mellon | Main role (season 1) |
| 1996–1997 | Men Behaving Badly | Brenda Mickowski | Main role |
| 1997 | Gun | Genny | Episode: "All the President's Women" |
| 1998 | Conrad Bloom | Nina Bloom #2 | TV series |
| 1998 | Suddenly Susan | Gina | Episode: "Don't Tell" |
| 1998 | Fantasy Island | Tina | Episode: "Let Go" |
| 1999 | Oh Baby | Shelly | Episode: "Lamaze" |
| 1999 | Just Shoot Me! | Megan | Episode: "Hostess to Murder" |
| 1999 | Cold Feet | Jenny Lombardi | Main role |
| 2000 | Stark Raving Mad | Katherine Yates | Episodes: "The Crush", "The Grade" |
| 2001 | Six Feet Under | Tracy Montrose Blair | Recurring role (season 1); starts using Dina Waters hereafter |
| 2001 | Frasier | Nanette | Episode: "Don Juan in Hell: Part 2" |
| 2002 | Warning: Parental Advisory | Receptionist | TV film |
| 2002–2004 | Greg the Bunny | Dottie Sunshine | Main role |
| 2005 | Joey | Judy | Episode: "Joey and the Valentine's Date" |
| 2007 | Family of the Year | Barbara Anderson | Episode: "Pilot" |
| 2010 | Neighbors from Hell | Marjoe Saint Sparks | Regular role |
| 2011 | CPA Holes | Annette Wicks | TV film |
| 2013 | Modern Family | Art Teacher | Episode: "Best Men" |
| 2013 | Witches of East End | Woman in Hospital | Episode: "Pilot" |
| 2015 | Salem Rogers | Karen | TV film |
| 2016 | Speechless | Jennifer | Episode: "Pilot" |
