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My Take
Elaine Hendrix occupies a special category in my mind: the actress who made a one-villain legacy feel like a triumph. Meredith Blake in The Parent Trap should have been a disposable antagonist, yet Hendrix played her with such comic precision, vanity shading into desperation, that audiences eventually re-litigated the character in her favor. That takes real craft. I also appreciate her unglamorous route: a dancer and model from Oak Ridge, Tennessee, grinding through 1990s television films before her break. Performers like her remind me that a single perfectly calibrated supporting role can outlast a dozen forgettable leads.
Overview
Katherine Elaine Hendrix (born December 28, 1970) is an American actress and dancer. She gained recognition for appearing in a range of television films in the 1990s before her breakthrough role as Meredith Blake in the romantic comedy film The Parent Trap (1998).
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Elaine Hendrix
- Name (Japanese)
- エレイン・ヘンドリックス
- Reading
- えれいん・へんどりっくす
- Born
- December 28, 1970 (age 55)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Capricorn / Dog
- Origin
- Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- actor / dancer / model / television actor / film actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Official sitehttp://www.elainehendrix.com
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine%20Hendrix
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.