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.

Reese Witherspoon and Dina Spybey-Waters in Just Like Heaven (2005)

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Minnie Driver, Dina Spybey-Waters, John Ross Bowie, Kyla Kenedy, Mason Cook, and Micah Fowler in Speechless (2016)

Minnie Driver, Dina Spybey-Waters, John Ross Bowie, Marin Hinkle, Kyla Kenedy, Mason Cook, and Micah Fowler in Speechless (2016)

Dina Spybey-Waters, Kyla Kenedy, Mason Cook, and Micah Fowler in Speechless (2016)

Justine Bateman, Rob Schneider, Dina Spybey-Waters, and Ron Eldard in Men Behaving Badly (1996)

Dina Spybey-Waters in Six Feet Under (2001)

David Spade and Dina Spybey-Waters in Just Shoot Me! (1997)

Laura San Giacomo, George Segal, J.P. Manoux, Wendie Malick, David Spade, Dina Spybey-Waters, Enrico Colantoni, Hamilton von Watts, and Fred Willard in Just Shoot Me! (1997)

Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo in Just Like Heaven (2005)

Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan in Freaky Friday (2003)

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