{"id":2106724,"date":"2025-10-21T21:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T21:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2106724"},"modified":"2025-10-21T21:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T21:42:09","slug":"atlanta-the-parent-trap-actress-lighting-up-the-dancing-with-the-stars-ballroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/atlanta-the-parent-trap-actress-lighting-up-the-dancing-with-the-stars-ballroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta \u2018The Parent Trap\u2019 actress lighting up the \u2018Dancing with the Stars\u2019 ballroom"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An Atlanta actress with ties to Atlanta is heating up the ballroom on the newest season of \u201cDancing with the Stars\u201d on Channel 2.<\/p>\n

Elaine Hendrix is best known for her roles as Meredith Blake in \u201cThe Parent Trap\u201d and Alexis Carrington Colby in \u201cDynasty.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Hendrix, who graduated from Northside School of Performing Arts, now known as North Atlanta High School, is making a comeback to dancing after a career-ending injury.<\/p>\n

\u201cI began my career in Atlanta, Georgia, before there was a SAG office, before the entertainment industry was what it is now. That\u2019s where I started,\u201d Hendrix said.<\/p>\n

Hendrix was born in Tennessee but moved to Atlanta with her mother when she was 15.<\/p>\n

She initially pursued a career in modeling and dancing, winning a model search and working professionally in both fields. But her life took a dramatic turn when she was involved in a car accident while riding a bicycle, which forced her to pivot away from dancing.<\/p>\n

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Instead, she concentrated on acting, but she told Channel 2 Action News<\/b> that she\u2019s happy to be back with her first love on \u201cDancing with the Stars.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI truly never thought I would be training like this again. And it\u2019s a whole mixed bag of, I\u2019m having to remember so much,\u201d Hendrix said. \u201cAnd I\u2019m navigating all the miles that I have on me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hendrix is the oldest female competitor on the season, partnered with professional dancer and former \u201cDancing with the Stars\u201d champion, Alan Bersten.<\/p>\n

If she brings home the mirrorball trophy, she\u2019ll be the oldest contestant to have done so.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m doing it for the fans, and especially women, you know, of a certain age, and young girls who can, like look up and go, \u2018Yeah, I can do that,\u2019\u201d Hendrix said.<\/p>\n

\u201cDancing with the Stars\u201d airs Tuesday nights at 8 p.m. on Channel 2.<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n

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\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An Atlanta actress with ties to Atlanta is heating up the ballroom on the newest season of \u201cDancing with the Stars\u201d on Channel 2. Elaine Hendrix is best known for her roles as Meredith Blake in \u201cThe Parent Trap\u201d and Alexis Carrington Colby in \u201cDynasty.\u201d [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2106725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[398736,314469,41508,341303,341304,398735,398737],"class_list":["post-2106724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-alexis-carrington-colby","tag-atlanta","tag-dancing-with-the-stars","tag-elaine-hendrix","tag-meredith-blake","tag-north-atlanta-high-school","tag-northside-school-of-performing-arts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Atlanta-\u2018The-Parent-Trap-actress-lighting-up-the-\u2018Dancing-with.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2106724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2106726,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106724\/revisions\/2106726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2106725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2106724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2106724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2106724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}