- Born
- Birth nameMelissa Marie Benoist
- Height5′ 8″ (1.73 m)
- Melissa Marie Benoist is an American actress, singer and dancer. She was raised in Littleton, Colorado , the daughter of Julie and Jim Benoist, a physician. She is of French, German, English, and Scottish descent. She started dance classes at the age of three and when she was four years old her aunt put her in a church play she was directing. As a teen, Benoist performed anonymously at Disneyland for three summers with the Academy of Theatre Arts, a musical theatre school located in Littleton, Colorado run by Paul Dwyer and Alann Worley. She performed locally in productions including Cinderella and Bye Bye Birdie at Town Hall Arts Center, and Evita at the Country Dinner Playhouse.
In 2006, The Denver Post named Benoist one of Colorado's five "Can't Miss Kids". She graduated from Arapahoe High School in Centennial, Colorado, in 2007,and from Marymount Manhattan College in New York City in 2011 with a Bachelor of arts in theatre arts. Benoist has become known for her portrayal of the title character in the CBS/CW superhero drama series Supergirl (2015). She had risen to prominence for her portrayal of Marley Rose on the fourth and fifth seasons of the Fox musical comedy-drama television series Glee (2009), and has appeared in films such as Whiplash (2014) ,Danny Collins (2015), The Longest Ride (2015), Lowriders (2016) , Patriots Day (2016) and Sun Dogs (2017).- IMDb mini biography by: scaryofmonsters and 123nuitt
- SpousesChris Wood(September 1, 2019 - present) (1 child)Blake Jenner(June 19, 2013 - December 21, 2017) (divorced)
- ChildrenHuxley Robert Wood
- ParentsJulie BenoistJim Benoist
- RelativesJessica Benoist(Sibling)Kristina Benoist(Sibling)
- Piercing blue eyes
- Was the very first of a thousand actors to audition for the title role of Supergirl (2015), just as Stephen Amell for Arrow (2012) and Grant Gustin for The Flash (2014), all produced by Greg Berlanti.
- Has a son: Huxley Robert Wood (b. September 2020) with husband, Chris Wood.
- Was wearing an eye-patch reportedly after suffering an eye injury when she first put on her Supergirl (2015) costume. It was later revealed, by Melissa on Instagram that the injury was in fact caused by an incident of domestic abuse. A phone was thrown at her eye resulting in one pupil becoming permanently enlarged.
- Became engaged to Chris Wood on 11 February 2019.
- Started reading the New 52 'Supergirl' comic book title after landing the part.
- I love female singer-songwriters!
- I'm obsessed with Michael Fassbender. He's unbelievable. I think he's a modern-day Marlon Brando. Every movie that he's done in the past couple years, I just died for him. He's extremely fascinating.
- At school, when it came to being social, I had no idea how to do it.
- Reading about myself on 'Perez Hilton' was kind of the weirdest thing ever.
- I'm definitely interested in doing movies. I've always focused more on acting than singing because that's where my true passion lies.
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