Dina Spybey (born August 29, 1965) also known as Dina Waters and Dina Spybey-Waters is an American

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. She has appeared in more than 20 films, including ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. 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 ''

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'' and a ghost named Emma in

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's film

Career

Spybey attended undergraduate studies at

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and then received her M.F.A. from

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at the

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. She was the character Dottie in ''

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'', appeared in ''

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'', and also played a stripper colleague of

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's in ''

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''. She played a supporting role in her husband

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' film '' Just Like Heaven'' (2005). Spybey portrayed a ghost named Emma in the 2003

movie

. She had a small role in Waters' ''

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''. She also appeared in the ninth-season premiere of ''

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'' ("Don Juan in Hell”) in 2001 in the role of Nanette Guzman,

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's first wife. She was one of three actresses to play the role over the course of ''

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'' and ''

'' (the others were

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and

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). Spybey also appeared in theater. In 1993 she appeared in the off-Broadway play ''Five Women Wearing the Same Dress''

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

* * 1965 births American television actresses Living people American film actresses 20th-century American actresses 21st-century American actresses Ohio State University alumni Actresses from Columbus, Ohio Rutgers University alumni {{US-screen-actor-1960s-stub