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 actressesafter Emma Thompson and before Laurie Metcalfto 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 Year Title Role Notes1996Big NightNatalieStripteaseMonique, Jr.SubUrbiaBee-Bee1997Julian PoDeeAllessandra1998Getting PersonalLiz Carderelli1999Advice from a CaterpillarYoung Woman2000Isn't She GreatBambi Madison2002John Q.Debby Utleystarts using Dina Waters credit hereafterFull FrontalThird Fired Employee2003Freaky FridayDottie RobertsonEmma2005Just Like HeavenAbby2008Yoga MattBonnie PuttermanShort film2019Chasing MollyJanetcredited as Dina Spybey-Waters2026 Aunt Mattie Post-production
Television Year Title Role Notes1992Lifestories: Families in CrisisBecky BellEpisode: "Public Law 106: The Becky Bell Story"1993CBS Schoolbreak SpecialLeanne StraussEpisode: "If I Die Before I Wake"1996FBI ArchivistEpisode: "Pusher"Remember WENNCelia MellonMain role, 14 episodes1996–1997,2001Men Behaving BadlyBrenda MickowskiMain role, 26 episodes1997GunGennyEpisode: "All the President's Women"1998Conrad BloomNina Bloom #2Unknown episodesSuddenly SusanGinaEpisode: "Don't Tell"Fantasy IslandTinaEpisode: "Let Go"1999Oh BabyShellyEpisode: "Lamaze"Just Shoot Me!MeganEpisode: "Hostess to Murder"Cold FeetJenny LombardiMain role, 8 episodes2000Stark Raving MadKatherine YatesEpisodes: "The Crush", "The Grade"2001Six Feet UnderTracy Montrose BlairRecurring role (season 1), 6 episodes; starts using Dina Waters hereafterFrasierNanetteEpisode: "Don Juan in Hell: Part 2"2002Warning: Parental AdvisoryReceptionistTelevision film2002–2004Greg the BunnyDottie SunshineMain role, 13 episodes2005JoeyJudyEpisode: "Joey and the Valentine's Date"2007Family of the YearBarbara AndersonEpisode: "Pilot"2010Neighbors from HellMarjoe Saint SparksMain voice role, 10 episodes2011CPA HolesAnnette WicksTelevision film2013Modern FamilyArt TeacherEpisode: "Best Men"Witches of East EndWoman in HospitalEpisode: "Pilot"2015Salem RogersKarenTelevision film2016SpeechlessJenniferEpisode: "Pilot"
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