Meredith Blake (Elaine Hendrix) is the main antagonist of the 1998 remake of "The Parent Trap".
Meredith is a snobby and child-hating gold digger ,who plans on marrying Nick Parker (Dennis Quaid). She is first seen when at Nick's backyard swimming pool. She is a San Francisco publicist hired to do some publicity for Nick's vineyard. They soon are engaged. Meredith and her assistant, Richard, secretly plan to send "Hallie" off to a boarding school in Switzerland, without knowing that it's really Annie in Disguise.
At the Stafford Hotel, Meredith see's Nick soaking wet after he climbed out of the hotel's swimming pool, and sees his ex-wife, Elizabeth James. Both Hallie and Annie say hi to Meredith, and she's shocked to learn that Nick doesn't have one daughter, he has twins, along with Elizabeth being his ex-wife!
Elizabeth later convinces Nick to take Meredith camping with the twins, and because Meredith isn't used to altitude of the mountains, the twins play a trick on her by putting a lizard on her water bottle and rocks in her backpack. She is handed the bottle and freaks out at the sight of the lizard. Then, as she threatens to make the twins' lives miserable starting the day she gets married if they pull another trick on her, one of them calls her "Cruella". Meanwhile, one of them has put a lizard on her head, and she freaks out when she finds it, and it crawls into her mouth, causing her to choke.
That night, Meredith reveals that she doesn't eat trout and ends up being bitten by mosquitos after being given a bottle of sugar and water from the twins. After she gets into her tent to sleep, Annie and Hallie pull her mattress out and push it into the lake. The next morning, as she wakes up, she finds a bird perched on her and ends up screaming. She also does so when she finds out her mattress is on the water, and falls off of it. Soaking wet, she kicks a pot and angrily tells Nick that the day they get married is the day she ships "those brats" off to Switzerland. She then demands him to choose between her and the twins, and seeing her true nature, he chooses the twins. She angrily freaks out in a tantrum and calls off the engagement, throwing her engagement ring at his head.
It is unknown what happened to Meredith afterward, but it’s most likely that either Nick drove her home or Richard picked her up.
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- Twenty years after the film's release, Elaine Hendrix gave an interview on E! portraying her role once again and describing Meredith from a different perspective from how she was portrayed in the film, saying she was just determined and opportunistic.
- Elaine Hendrix appeared as the main antagonist, Evian Graham in the 1999 film "Superstar".
- Elaine Hendrix appeared as the assassin, Melody 'Jupiter Music' Malloy in the 2001 black comedy "Wish You Were Dead".
- Elaine Hendrix appeared as the leggy weather girl, Heidi Gardelle in the 2002 Christmas comedy "Mr. St. Nick".
- Elaine Hendrix appeared as Medusa as the main villainess in the 2002 episode "The Rocks", of the series "Special Unit 2".
- Elaine Hendrix appeared as Clea in the 2004 episode "Witch Wars" for the TV series "Charmed".
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