A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Dina Spybey
Dina Waters
Birthplace:
Columbus, Ohio, USA
Born:
August 29, 1965
Dina Spybey (born August 29, 1965) is an American actress, also known as Dina Waters or Dina Spybey-Waters since her 2000 marriage to director Mark Waters. She has appeared in more than 20 films, including Big Night (1996), Striptease (1996), The First Wives Club (1996), SubUrbia (1996), John Q (2002), Freaky Friday (2003), The Haunted Mansion (2003), and Just Like Heaven (2005). On television, Spybey is perhaps best known for her role as Tracy Montrose Blair on the first season of Six Feet Under. She also had regular roles on Remember WENN (1996), Men Behaving Badly (1996 - 1997), and Greg the Bunny (2002 - 2004). A notable guest role was on Frasier in 2001 as Nanette Guzman, Frasier Crane's first wife. She was one of three actresses to play the role over the course of Cheers and Frasier (the others were Emma Thompson and Laurie Metcalf). She attended Winterset Elementary, Ridgeview Jr. High School, Centennial High School, and The Ohio State University, all in Columbus, Ohio.
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.