Pilot Employees



Early on in the show, they had not yet established their supporting cast. In the pilot, four office workers are seen that are presumably recast for the rest of the series, possibly Meredith, Louanne and Devon.

The male employee is played by Mike McCaul, while the red-haired female (Meredith) is played by Henriette Mantel, and the other two females' names are unknown. In the DVD commentary, Rainn Wilson says that two of these women were the real-world accountants on the show.

According to the Office Ladies podcast, Henriette Mantel's character was Meredith, but since the pilot was shot 6 months before the rest of the series, Mantel was no longer available due to her breakthrough with the Brady Bunch films, so was replaced with Kate Flannery for the entirety of the series.

The red-haired female was seated at Meredith Palmer's desk before Meredith was introduced to the show; she also appeared in the last scene of "Hot Girl", going to a filing cabinet, though she was in the same clothing as the pilot, clearly revealing the scene as a flashback or recycled footage. - .