Dina Merrill

Birthplace: New York, New York
Birthday: December 29, 1925

Born to Wall Street financier E.F. Hutton and Post cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post, a debutante-age Merrill gave up college after one year and moved to New York to study at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She debuted on Broadway in "The Mermaids Singing" (1945) and kept busy for the next decade with acting studies, Broadway and stock theater roles and work in early TV anthology dramas. Already in her thirties, Merrill made her film debut with a sweet performance as part of Katharine Hepburn's reference department staff in "Desk…more

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Actor

Family Flight
Florence Carlyle
The Sunshine Patriot
Brancie Hagen
The Alan King Show
Nan Cooper
The Tenth Month
Cele
Hot Pursuit
Estelle Modrian

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Career Milestones

2004
Cast in the action thriller "Shade," set in the L.A. scene of poker hustlers
2002
Co-starred in the A&E miniseries version of "The Magnificent Ambersons"
1986
Returned to features after another absence, this one of six years, to play a prominent role in the film, "Twisted"
1984
First TV series role as regular, the short-lived NBC adventure series, "Hot Pursuit"; played Estelle Modrian
1983
Returned to Broadway to play a role in the revival of the landmark Richard Rodgers-Lorenz Hart-scored, George Balanchine-choreographed musical, "On Your Toes", in a production directed by George Abbott