Dina Eastwood Biography
Dina Eastwood is a journalist, news anchor, and actress from the United States. She co-hosted the reality television series Mrs. Eastwood & Company (2012), which chronicled her life, and co-hosted the hidden camera television series Candid Camera (2001-2004).
Dina Eastwood Age
Dina was born Dina Marie Fisher on 11 July 1965, in Castro Valley, California, United States of America. She is 58 years old as of July 2023.
Dina Eastwood Education
She attended numerous universities after graduating from Mission San Jose High School in Fremont, beginning with Ohlone College, a community college in her hometown, in 1983. She hosted Ohlone College Television’s Newsline while a student there. She temporarily attended Arizona State University in Tempe before graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in Broadcast Communications from San Francisco State University in 1988. San Jose State University awarded her a master’s degree in creative writing in 2017.
Dina Eastwood Family- Parents
Ruiz was born in Castro Valley, California, the daughter of Michael Ruiz, a math teacher and wrestling coach at Mission San Jose High School, who had been adopted as an infant by a Spanish/Puerto Rican couple in Honolulu’s Kalihi neighborhood. Lilian, Michael Ruiz’s biological mother, was Hawaiian and Japanese, and Marcus Grant, his biological father, was African American and Native Hawaiian. Her mother, Mary Lou Ruiz, is of German, Irish, and English ancestry. Dina was born to Michael and Mary when they were 19 and 21 years old, respectively. Dina grew up in Fremont, California, where her father was a teacher.
Dina Eastwood Husband- Spouse
Clint Eastwood, an actor and director, met her in 1993 and they married on March 31, 1996. Morgan Eastwood (born December 12, 1996) is the couple’s only child. She said in August 2013 that she and Clint Eastwood have been living apart for an unspecified period of time. On October 22, 2013, Dina Eastwood filed for divorce. Eastwood married basketball coach Scott Fisher in July 2016.
Dina Eastwood Career
She began her career as a reporter for KNAZ-TV in Flagstaff, Arizona, in 1990, and eventually rose to the position of news anchor. She was employed as a news anchor at KSBW in the Monterey-Salinas, California market in January 1991. She served in that capacity until November 1997. She has since been on Action News as well as at KSBW’s Share Your Holiday programs. In 1998, she hosted the television show A Quest for Excellence, which was produced by the California Teachers Association and featured students, teachers, and administrators as well as celebrity interviews. She and Peter Funt co-hosted the hidden camera television show Candid Camera. She “guest-anchored for KSBW” the 5 p.m. newscast with weeknights in 2011, announced as Dina Ruiz-Eastwood and billed on-air as Dina Eastwood.
Eastwood was named to San Francisco State University’s “Alumni Hot Shots” list in 2009. During the making of her husband’s film Invictus, she found the South African a cappella group Overtone. The band later recorded songs for the Malpaso Productions soundtrack. Eastwood appeared in two of her husband’s films, True Crime (1999) and Blood Work (2002), playing a reporter.In The Forger, she co-starred with her stepson, Scott Eastwood, as Vanessa Reeve. Eastwood is a past head of the Board of Trustees of the California Museum of History, Women, and the Arts. Since 2010, she has been a frequent contributor to Carmel magazine and a non-fiction editor for the literary periodical Reed Magazine. She has also been a yoga instructor.
Dina Eastwood Net Worth
Dina has an estimated net worth of 20 million dollars.
Dina Eastwood Films
- 1991–97; 2011;
- 2013 KSBW Action News 8
- 2001–04 Candid Camera
- 2012 Mrs. Eastwood & Company
- 1999 True Crime
- 2002 Blood Work
- 2012 The Forger
