Meredith Blake

Meredith Blake is the main antagonist of the 1998 remake of The Parent Trap. She is a young gold-digger who plans on marrying Nick Parker for his wealth. Meredith is nicknamed Cruella De Vil by Annie and Hallie because of her sophisticated and antagonistic personality.
==Role in the film==
Meredith is a spoiled, greedy, snobby, manipulative, vain, and opportunistic woman who was planning to marry Nick just for his money. She is first seen when Annie and Hallie are switching places. Meredith is a publicist from San Francisco whom Nick hired to do some publicity for his vineyard and they wind up dating and eventually get engaged. While she briefly appears friendly to "Hallie" (really Annie), Meredith is rude towards people she considers beneath her, such as Chessy, Nick's housekeeper, bossing her around with a servant bell. Meredith also has an assistant named Richard, with whom she plots to get rid of "Hallie" by sending her off to a boarding school in Timbuktu. 
Meredith reveals to Annie that whether the latter likes it or not, she is going to marry Nick. Meredith shows her true colors by snobbishly criticizing Annie and manipulating her into believing she really does love Nick. This is much to Annie's disappointment, because she and Hallie plan on getting their parents remarried and because Meredith is 15 years older than Annie (she is 26). Meredith also reveals to Annie her true plot, which is that she is only marrying Nick for his money.
At the Stafford Hotel, Meredith introduces Nick, Annie, Chessy, and Nick's dog Sammy to her parents, Les and Vicki. Another time, when Nick and his ex-wife, Elizabeth James, are together again at the pool, Meredith is astonished to meet Elizabeth. Meredith is also shocked to find out that Annie and Hallie are twins when she sees one on each side.
Elizabeth talks Nick into taking Meredith camping instead of her. Because Meredith is not used to the altitude of the mountains, Annie and Hallie play a trick on her by putting a lizard on her water bottle and rocks in her backpack. Meredith is handed the bottle and freaks out at the sight of the lizard. Then, as she threatens to make Annie and Hallie's lives miserable starting the day she gets married if they pull another trick on her, one calls her "Cruella". Meanwhile, another has put the same lizard on her head. Meredith freaks out when she finds it, and it gets in her mouth, causing her to choke.
That night, Meredith reveals that she does not eat trout and ends up being bitten by mosquitoes after being given a bottle of sugar and water from Annie and Hallie. After she gets into her tent to sleep, the twins pull Meredith 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. Meredith also does so when she finds out her mattress is on the water and falls off of it. Soaking wet, Meredith kicks a pot and angrily tells Nick that the day they get married is the day she ships "those brats" off to Switzerland. Meredith then demands him to choose between her and them, and Nick, finally realizing her true nature, chooses the latter. Meredith angrily freaks out in a tantrum and calls off the engagement, throwing her engagement ring at his head (although she was implied to have done the latter off-screen).
It is unknown what happens to Meredith afterwards, but it is likely that either her parents or Richard came and picked her up and she presumably left California for good.
==Trivia==
*Twenty years after the film's release, Elaine Hendrix gave an interview on E! portraying her role once again describing Meredith from a different perspective from how she was portrayed in the film as just determined and opportunistic.
*Despite being (at least) middle-class, fancy, and snobbish herself, Meredith tries to marry a richer man just for his money. This is similar to Clarice Kensington in the 1995 film It Takes Two who wants to marry Roger Callaway, the film's protagonist, for similar reasons.
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