I'm sorry but all of these numbers incredibly inflated are inaccurate.
An unknown actress like Meghan (this movie was made before Suits!) would not get 100K for a minor role in a low budget indie movie (how many total minutes is she even in the movie?), I mean she's not even listed in the main cast list at Wikipedia, so i'm guessing 5 minutes, maybe 10 - out of 120 minutes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remember_Me_(2010_film)#Cast
She likely made scale, maybe a bit more because Trevor was a producer, given how small her role was.
As an unknown actress with very little to her resume let alone any noteworthy parts, Meghan would not make more than scale...
Surely the amount listed for
Remember Me is accurate. There's probably documentation of that amount for her total salary. It's likely checkable and traceable, or it wouldn't have been reported as being that amount. We'd probably be surprised how much actors make for small roles in films that make a profit. At the time Meghan appeared in
Remember Me, she was married to Trevor Engelson, and he was the producer of that film, as noted.
In Andrew Morton's biography of Meghan,
American Princess, Morton indicates that Engelson did not often find roles in his films to give Meghan work. But she did get this particular role. It's in a bar that's darkly lit, so she's barely visible. But she does speak one line. Again, it's easily checkable how much a small role like that can bring when the film is moderately successful, which
Remember Me, in fact, was.
https://www.thefilmography.com/meghan-markle-32684.php
Remember Me was not Meghan's first role in a film, and she had a union card. She was actively going on auditions and she'd made a number of television pilots by then that did not get picked up by any network. In 2009, Meghan starred as an FBI agent in the television series,
Fringe. She played the minor, uncredited role in
Remember Me in 2010. By that point, she'd landed some significant, if not highly visible, work already. So she probably rated higher than scale for the small role in a movie that went on to make decent money.
If you're saying you don't believe she made much more than 'scale,' how much do you think that was? In any case, it doesn't matter since it happened a long time ago, and whatever money Meghan made, she reportedly saved a good portion of it, and
she retained a good business accounting and investment firm that still represents her.
As I mentioned earlier, Meghan receives substantial residuals annually for all of her film and television work. Since Meghan dated and married Prince Harry, there has been more interest in and thus increased sales of
Suits DVDs and even of obscure films and television pilots that she appeared in. Hallmark released a special edition of Meghan's two films (
The Dater's Handbook, and
When Sparks Fly), along with a bonus third film about a royal tale that Meghan was not part of.