Spybey's early career focused on theater. In 1993, she appeared in the
off-Broadway play
Five Women Wearing the Same Dress. After three more off-Broadway productions, from 1994 to 1996, she made her
Broadway theatre debut in a 1999 production of
The Iceman Cometh, at the
Brooks Atkinson Theatre. Her first television role, in a 1992 episode of the
after school special series
Lifestories: Families in Crisis, predated her first off-Broadway role. This performance, as
Becky Bell in "Public Law 106: The Becky Bell Story", earned Spybey the
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in a Children's Special. Her appearances in film and on television escalated from 1996 onward. Spybey was the character Dottie in
Greg the Bunny, was in the main cast for the first season of
Remember WENN, and also played a stripper colleague of
Demi Moore's in
Striptease. She played a supporting role in her husband
Mark Waters' film
Just Like Heaven (2005). Spybey portrayed a ghost named Emma in the 2003
Disney movie
The Haunted Mansion. She had a small role in Waters'
Freaky Friday. She also appeared in the ninth-season premiere of
Frasier ("Don Juan in Hell") in 2001 in the role of
Nanette Guzman,
Frasier Crane's first wife. She was one of three actressesafter
Emma Thompson and before
Laurie Metcalfto play a specific point-in-time version of the character over the course of
Cheers and
Frasier. == Filmography ==