| Dina Ruiz Eastwood | |
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| Born | Dina Ruiz July 11, 1965 Castro Valley, California |
| Spouse | Clint Eastwood (1996–present, 1 child) |
Dina Ruiz Eastwood (born July 11, 1965) is an American reporter, TV news anchor and film actress. In March 1996 she married actor/director Clint Eastwood and has acted in two films which he directed.
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She was born in Castro Valley, a community within the East Bay area of California. Her father was of African American and Japanese descent, but adopted by a family named Ruiz,[1] and her mother is of Irish, English, and German descent.[2] Ruiz, who graduated from Mission San Jose High School in Fremont, California, anchored Newsline for Ohlone College Television, then majored in Radio/TV at San Francisco State University.[2]
She married actor/director Clint Eastwood on March 31, 1996, in Las Vegas when Eastwood surprised her with a private ceremony at a home on the Shadow Creek Golf Course.[3] The couple has one daughter, Morgan Eastwood (born December 12, 1996).
Dina is currently chair of The California Museum for History, Women and the Arts Board of Trustees.
Since marrying Clint Eastwood, she has acted in two of his films, True Crime (1999) and Blood Work (2002).
Eastwood was featured in the San Francisco State University Alumni Hot Shots (2009).[4] She is a former co-host of the TV show Candid Camera.
She currently manages Overtone, a South African acapella band who sang the soundtrack for Clint's film Invictus.
In 1990 Eastwood was hired as a reporter and eventually a news anchor for KNAZ-TV in Flagstaff, Arizona. About a year later, Eastwood was hired at KSBW as a news anchor. She retired in 1997; however, on February 8, 2011, Eastwood returned to anchor the 5 p.m. newscast with weeknight anchor Dan Green.[5]