Dina Eastwood

Dina Marie Ruiz was born in Castro Valley, California, the daughter of Michael Ruiz, a math teacher and wrestling coach, who had been adopted by a Spanish/Puerto Rican couple as an infant in the Kalihi neighborhood of Honolulu. She has one younger brother, Dominic, who was formerly married to Groucho Marx's granddaughter Jade Berti. Dina grew up in Fremont, California, with her father teaching school in Fresno. After graduating from Mission San Jose High School in Fremont, she attended several colleges beginning with Ohlone College, a community college in her hometown, in 1983. While a student at Ohlone, she anchored Newsline for Ohlone College Television. She briefly attended Arizona State University in Tempe, == Career ==

In 1990, she was hired as a reporter for KNAZ-TV in Flagstaff, Arizona, and later became news anchor. In January 1991, she was hired as a news anchor at KSBW in the Monterey-Salinas, California market. She held that position until November 1997. She has since made guest appearances on Action News and at KSBW's Share Your Holiday events. In 1998, she was host of the television show A Quest for Excellence, produced by the California Teachers Association and featuring students, teachers, and administrators and their daily challenges, as well as celebrity interviews. She co-hosted the hidden camera television show Candid Camera with Peter Funt from 2001 to 2004. Beginning February 8, 2011, announced as Dina Ruiz-Eastwood, she "guest-anchored for KSBW" the 5 p.m. newscast with weeknight anchor Dan Green. She returned to anchor the 5 pm newscast for two weeks starting November 11, 2013. Ruiz Eastwood was featured in the San Francisco State University's 2009 "Alumni Hot Shots" list. She discovered the South African a cappella band Overtone during the filming of her husband's movie Invictus. The band then recorded songs that were used in the Malpaso Productions soundtrack. Eastwood made brief appearances as a reporter in two of her husband's films, True Crime (1999) and Blood Work (2002). In 2012, she played the role of Vanessa Reeve in The Forger alongside her stepson, Scott Eastwood. Eastwood joined The California Museum for History, Women and the Arts Board of Trustees and is a past chair. She has been a regular contributor for Carmel magazine since 2010, and a non-fiction editor to literary journal Reed Magazine. == Personal life ==

She met actor and director Clint Eastwood in 1993, when she interviewed him for KSBW-TV. As Clint Eastwood recalled in 2007, They married on March 31, 1996. The couple has one daughter, Morgan Eastwood (born December 12, 1996). In April 2013, Dina Eastwood entered rehab in Arizona, with People magazine writing that "the reported cause was stress". In August 2013, she stated that she and Clint Eastwood had been living separately for an undisclosed length of time. Dina Eastwood filed for divorce on October 22, 2013. In July 2016, Dina Eastwood married basketball coach Scott Fisher. == Filmography ==