Dina Spybey

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Dina Spybey
Other namesDina Waters
Dina Spybey-Waters
Occupation Actress
Years active1992–2019
Spouse
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(m. 2000)​
Children2

Dina Spybey, 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 .

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Career

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 .

Filmography

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.

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
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 Utleystarts 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
2008Yoga MattBonnie Putterman Short film
2019Chasing MollyJanetcredited as Dina Spybey-Waters

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1992 Lifestories: Families in Crisis Becky Bell Episode: "Public Law 106: The Becky Bell Story"
1993 CBS Schoolbreak Special Leanne StraussEpisode: "If I Die Before I Wake"
1996 The X-Files FBI ArchivistEpisode: "Pusher"
1996 Remember WENN Celia MellonMain role (season 1)
1996–1997 Men Behaving Badly Brenda MickowskiMain role
1997 Gun GennyEpisode: "All the President's Women"
1998 Conrad Bloom Nina Bloom #2TV series
1998 Suddenly Susan GinaEpisode: "Don't Tell"
1998 Fantasy Island TinaEpisode: "Let Go"
1999 Oh Baby ShellyEpisode: "Lamaze"
1999 Just Shoot Me! MeganEpisode: "Hostess to Murder"
1999 Cold Feet Jenny LombardiMain role
2000 Stark Raving Mad Katherine YatesEpisodes: "The Crush", "The Grade"
2001 Six Feet Under Tracy Montrose BlairRecurring role (season 1); starts using Dina Waters hereafter
2001 Frasier NanetteEpisode: "Don Juan in Hell: Part 2"
2002 Warning: Parental Advisory ReceptionistTV film
2002–2004 Greg the Bunny Dottie SunshineMain role
2005 Joey JudyEpisode: "Joey and the Valentine's Date"
2007Family of the YearBarbara AndersonEpisode: "Pilot"
2010 Neighbors from Hell Marjoe Saint SparksRegular role
2011CPA HolesAnnette WicksTV film
2013 Modern Family Art TeacherEpisode: "Best Men"
2013 Witches of East End Woman in HospitalEpisode: "Pilot"
2015Salem RogersKarenTV film
2016 Speechless JenniferEpisode: "Pilot"

References

  1. ↑ Metz, Nina (November 13, 2017). "My worst moment: Ally Walker on tippling and acting". Chicago Tribune . Retrieved September 12, 2018.
  2. ↑ "Lucci Loses Emmy for 14th Time : Television: She's beat out of best actress honors by 'Another World's' Linda Dano. CBS' 'Young and Restless' wins the best drama series award" . Los Angeles Times . Associated Press. May 28, 1993. Archived from the original on February 22, 2021. Retrieved January 25, 2023.
  3. ↑ Muchira, Christine (January 20, 2018). "Kim Cattrall suggests Sex and the City replacements". Kenya Broadcasting Corporation . Archived from the original on September 21, 2021. Retrieved September 12, 2018.


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