Dina Eastwood | |
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Eastwood at the Academy Awards in 2007
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Born |
Dina Marie Ruiz July 11, 1965 Castro Valley, California |
Residence | Carmel-by-the-Sea, California |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater |
Mission San Jose High School Ohlone College Arizona State San Francisco State University |
Home town | San Francisco, California |
Spouse(s) |
Clint Eastwood |
Children | Morgan Eastwood |
Clint Eastwood
(1996–2014)
Dina Eastwood (born Dina Marie Ruiz; July 11, 1965) is an American reporter and TV news anchor. She is the ex-wife of actor/director Clint Eastwood.
In 2012, she starred in a reality television series about her life, Mrs. Eastwood & Company, on the E! network.
Dina Marie Ruiz was born in Castro Valley, California, the daughter of Michael Ruiz, who had been adopted by a Portuguese/Puerto Rican couple as an infant, and his wife, Mary Lou Ruiz, who is of English,Irish and German descent. Michael Ruiz's biological father, Marcus Grant, was African American and Native Hawaiian, and his biological mother, Lilian, was Japanese and Hawaiian. 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, and in 1988, graduated from San Francisco State University with a degree in Broadcast Communications.