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.

Career

Spybey's early career focused on theater. In 1993, she appeared in the off-Broadway play Five Women Wearing the Same Dress. 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.

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 the 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. 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
1996Big NightNatalie
StripteaseMonique, Jr.
SubUrbiaBee-Bee
1997Julian PoDee
An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood BurnAllessandra
1998Getting PersonalLiz Carderelli
1999Advice from a CaterpillarYoung Woman
2000Isn't She GreatBambi Madison
2002John Q.Debby Utleystarts using Dina Waters credit hereafter
Full FrontalThird Fired Employee
2003Freaky FridayDottie Robertson
The Haunted MansionEmma
2005Just Like HeavenAbby
2008Yoga MattBonnie PuttermanShort film
2019Chasing MollyJanetcredited as Dina Spybey-Waters
2026Hershey †Aunt MattiePost-production

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1992Lifestories: Families in CrisisBecky BellEpisode: "Public Law 106: The Becky Bell Story"
1993CBS Schoolbreak SpecialLeanne StraussEpisode: "If I Die Before I Wake"
1996The X-FilesFBI ArchivistEpisode: "Pusher"
Remember WENNCelia MellonMain role, 14 episodes
1996–1997, 2001Men Behaving BadlyBrenda MickowskiMain role, 26 episodes
1997GunGennyEpisode: "All the President's Women"
1998Conrad BloomNina Bloom #2Unknown episodes
Suddenly SusanGinaEpisode: "Don't Tell"
Fantasy IslandTinaEpisode: "Let Go"
1999Oh BabyShellyEpisode: "Lamaze"
Just Shoot Me!MeganEpisode: "Hostess to Murder"
Cold FeetJenny LombardiMain role, 8 episodes
2000Stark Raving MadKatherine YatesEpisodes: "The Crush", "The Grade"
2001Six Feet UnderTracy Montrose BlairRecurring role (season 1), 6 episodes; starts using Dina Waters hereafter
FrasierNanetteEpisode: "Don Juan in Hell: Part 2"
2002Warning: Parental AdvisoryReceptionistTelevision film
2002–2004Greg the BunnyDottie SunshineMain role, 13 episodes
2005JoeyJudyEpisode: "Joey and the Valentine's Date"
2007Family of the YearBarbara AndersonEpisode: "Pilot"
2010Neighbors from HellMarjoe Saint SparksMain voice role, 10 episodes
2011CPA HolesAnnette WicksTelevision film
2013Modern FamilyArt TeacherEpisode: "Best Men"
Witches of East EndWoman in HospitalEpisode: "Pilot"
2015Salem RogersKarenTelevision film
2016SpeechlessJenniferEpisode: "Pilot"

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