Elaine Hendrix
- Actress
- Producer
- Director
Born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Elaine Hendrix spent her early years in
nearby Knoxville and Morristown. At 15 she moved with her divorced
mother to Atlanta, Georgia, where she attended the Northside School of
Performing Arts. She started her professional career as a dancer and
model but gave up dance after she was hit by a car while bicycling. She
officially moved to Los Angeles in 1992 and had an agent within a
month. She worked her way from commercials to TV guest shots to a
starring role on the 1995 Fox revival of Get Smart (1995) to features. A member
of Women in Film, Women in Theatre and Women of Los Angeles, Hendrix
has written a short film that she plans to direct at the end of
1999/beginning of 2000 (as soon as she can take a break from her acting
schedule). She has two birds and two turtles and in September 1999
added a dog named Tiloc to her family.
