{"id":2166754,"date":"2025-11-19T16:33:03","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T16:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2166754"},"modified":"2025-11-19T16:33:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T16:33:03","slug":"atlanta-the-parent-trap-actress-advances-to-dancing-with-the-stars-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/atlanta-the-parent-trap-actress-advances-to-dancing-with-the-stars-finale\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta \u2018The Parent Trap\u2019 actress advances to \u2018Dancing with the Stars\u2019 finale"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An actress with ties to Atlanta is one step closer to the \u201cDancing with the Stars\u201d Mirrorball Trophy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Elaine Hendrix, who is best known for \u201cThe Parent Trap,\u201d survived Tuesday night\u2019s semifinal and will be dancing in the ballroom on finale night on Channel 2.<\/p>\n

If she wins, Hendrix, 54, will be the oldest winner in the show\u2019s history.<\/p>\n

[READ: <\/b>Atlanta \u2018The Parent Trap\u2019 actress lighting up the \u2018Dancing with the Stars\u2019 ballroom<\/b><\/a>]<\/b><\/p>\n

Hendrix and her professional partner, Alan Bersten<\/a>, 31, earned their perfect score of the season with a paso doble to Prince\u2019s \u201cWhen Doves Cry\u201d on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

For next week\u2019s finale, all five remaining couples will perform three dances, one selected by one of the judges, an instant dance and their freestyle routine.<\/p>\n

She\u2019ll face off with the remaining celebrities: Olympic gymnast Jordan Chiles<\/a>, social media influencer Alix Earle<\/a>, reality TV star Dylan Efron<\/a> and wildlife conservationist Robert Irwin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Earlier in the season, Hendrix, who graduated from Northside School of Performing Arts, now known as North Atlanta High School spoke with Channel 2 Action News<\/b> about making a comeback to dancing after a career-ending injury.<\/p>\n

She initially pursued a career in modeling and dancing, but a car accident while she was riding a bicycle forced her to pivot.<\/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 Tuesdays 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 actress with ties to Atlanta is one step closer to the \u201cDancing with the Stars\u201d Mirrorball Trophy. Elaine Hendrix, who is best known for \u201cThe Parent Trap,\u201d survived Tuesday night\u2019s semifinal and will be dancing in the ballroom on finale night on Channel 2. If she wins, Hendrix, 54, will be the oldest winner […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2166755,"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":[344892,314469,41508,341303,340873,398735,341306],"class_list":["post-2166754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-alan-bersten","tag-atlanta","tag-dancing-with-the-stars","tag-elaine-hendrix","tag-jordan-chiles","tag-north-atlanta-high-school","tag-the-parent-trap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Atlanta-\u2018The-Parent-Trap-actress-advances-to-\u2018Dancing-with-the.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166754","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=2166754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2166756,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166754\/revisions\/2166756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2166755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2166754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2166754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2166754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}