Dina Spybey-Waters
- Actress
- Producer
- Soundtrack
A petite, stage-trained blonde adept at portraying naive or off-center
characters, Dina Spybey Waters first came to prominence in and won a
Daytime Emmy Award for the leading role of an underage teenager in the
fact-based HBO special,
Public Law 106: The Becky Bell Story (1992).
In 2000, she married director
Mark Waters and eventually
changed her professional name to reflect their union. The two
collaborated on several projects, including
Freaky Friday (2003) and
Just Like Heaven (2005).
In the latter film, she delivered one of her best performances as
Reese Witherspoon's protective,
married-with-kids sister, veering adroitly between her trademark
high-pitched comedic energy and convincing emotional moments.
Waters earned a B.F.A. in Acting from Ohio State University and an
M.F.A. from Rutgers University, before beginning her career on stage.
She had appeared in numerous Broadway and off-Broadway plays, including
Alan Ball's "Five Women Wearing the
Same Dress", for which she earned a Theatre World Award for Outstanding
New Talent, "Blue Light" and "The Shawl", both directed by
Sidney Lumet, and "The Iceman Cometh",
opposite Kevin Spacey.
characters, Dina Spybey Waters first came to prominence in and won a
Daytime Emmy Award for the leading role of an underage teenager in the
fact-based HBO special,
Public Law 106: The Becky Bell Story (1992).
In 2000, she married director
Mark Waters and eventually
changed her professional name to reflect their union. The two
collaborated on several projects, including
Freaky Friday (2003) and
Just Like Heaven (2005).
In the latter film, she delivered one of her best performances as
Reese Witherspoon's protective,
married-with-kids sister, veering adroitly between her trademark
high-pitched comedic energy and convincing emotional moments.
Waters earned a B.F.A. in Acting from Ohio State University and an
M.F.A. from Rutgers University, before beginning her career on stage.
She had appeared in numerous Broadway and off-Broadway plays, including
Alan Ball's "Five Women Wearing the
Same Dress", for which she earned a Theatre World Award for Outstanding
New Talent, "Blue Light" and "The Shawl", both directed by
Sidney Lumet, and "The Iceman Cometh",
opposite Kevin Spacey.