Who Plays Meredith On How I Met Your Father

Why Meredith From How I Met Your Father Looks So Familiar

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If yous're a sitcom fan with steaming subscriptions, then you are undoubtedly aware of the Hulu spin-off series "How I Met Your Father." The series follows a 30-something woman braving the dating scene of New York along with her group of trusted — yet opinionated — friends. While it isn't a sequel in the truest sense (every bit of now, no characters from the original bear witness are starring), it borrows the premise from the immensely popular "How I Met Your Mother."

Even though it's still uncertain if the likes of Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor) or Barney Stinson (Neil Patrick Harris) will pop up at some point, Hulu has brought in other familiar faces to headline their new show. The series stars Hillary Duff as Sophie (y'all might call her the "Ted character"), and her futurity self is played past the legendary Kim Cattrall (not different to the late Bob Saget'southward narrative role). Along with those ii, viewers may spy another Television receiver veteran in the airplane pilot in the part of Meredith, the woman who turns downward Jesse in his viral #ProposeFail video. She is played by Leighton Meester.

If yous watched the episode and are having trouble placing where else you've seen Leighton Meester before, here are a few possibilities.

Leighton Meester was an original Gossip Girl

Leighton Meester hit the scene in the early on 2000s, making pocket-size appearances in Telly series similar "24," "7th Heaven," and "Veronica Mars." It wasn't until 2007 that she became a household name by landing the co-lead part of Blair in the Manhattan elite-centered drama, "Gossip Daughter." She spent 121 episodes alongside Blake Lively, Penn Badgley, Ed Westwick, and Chase Crawford. While Blair and her alleged best friend Serena (Lively) are close on paper, the series ultimately consists of the 2 battling information technology out for the title of Queen B. Much of Blair's narrative arc on the series sees her trying to step outside of Serena'due south shadow.

"Gossip Daughter" gave audiences a deliciously heightened expect at the lives of students at an sectional Upper East Side prep schoolhouse, all the way down to faking their own deaths. More importantly, it introduced the globe to the powerhouse female leads of Blake Lively and Leighton Meester. After "Gossip Girl," Meester continued to build a career both in film and television.

Leighton Meester starred alongside Gwyneth Paltrow in Land Strong

Leighton Meester got the chance to show the world her musical talents when she landed a function alongside Gwyneth Paltrow and Tim McGraw in "Country Stiff." She co-starred as upwardly-and-coming songwriter Chiles Stanton who teams up with a fading country music legend, Kelly Amble (Gwyneth Paltrow), who is looking to recapture her onetime glory. While Kelly spends much of the film struggling with her alcoholism and the consequence it has had on her life and career, Chiles is a deeply scarred and emotional person who deals with her struggles through the utilise of country music. She accompanies Paltrow and her decision-making manager (McGraw) across the country on tour.

While neither critics nor audiences were huge fans of the film (it has 22% and 53%, respectively, on Rotten Tomatoes), Roger Ebert thought it had old-school amuse and commented, "'Country Strong' is ane of the all-time movies of 1957, and I mean that sincerely as a compliment."

Leighton Meester creeped united states of america all out in The Roommate

Another of the moving picture projects Leighton Meester took on during her run on "Gossip Girl" was the 2011 thriller "The Roommate." This pic saw her playing the murderous side of a "Unmarried White Female"-esque story. She starred alongside Minka Kelly, who plays a college freshman fresh from a small town who moves into her dorm room along with her brand new roommate. Meester portrays the roommate, who reveals herself to exist an overeager sister-figure who shortly turns possessive, and eventually mortiferous.

"The Roommate" is not a well-remembered movie, likely owing to the fact that it has a pitiful iii% critic's score on Rotten Tomatoes. Despite the shellacking the film received from critics, Meester's creepy performance struck a nerve with some viewers. She was nominated for best villain at the MTV Movie + TV Awards, as well every bit choice moving picture villain at the Teen Choice Awards.

Leighton Meester tackled motherhood in Unmarried Parents

Since "Gossip Girl" concluded in 2012, Leighton Meester hasn't had quite as many big projects. In 2017, she spend a season co-starring in the historical comedy "Making History." The next year, she began a 2-season run on the ABC sitcom "Single Parents." The latter series focuses on a group of unmarried parents who lean on each other to aid raise their seven-yr-olds and maintain some sort of rest in their lives. Meester plays Angie, a single mother struggling through raising her son without the assistance of his father, who is played past Meester'due south real-life hubby Adam Brody.

"On the show, he's such a fiddling dummy and it'due south very beautiful and he'south very handsome," she said of working with Brody in an interview with Amusement Tonight. "And in real life that's 98 percent non true. He's mostly, totally, like a grown-upwards."

According to IMDb, she can exist seen next in a thriller called "The Weekend Abroad," which is about a woman who is accused of killing her friend while on vacation in Croatia.