Melissa Benoist

Melissa Benoist is one of those performers who makes you forget how hard it actually is to do what she does — she waltzed onto Glee as Marley Rose and just fit, sweet and grounded in a cast full of veterans, and then somehow leveled up into being Supergirl for six years without it ever feeling like a stunt. That's a serious range. She trained at Marymount Manhattan College, brought real vocal chops to the role, and the fact that she's also a dancer and eventually stepped behind the camera as a director tells you this isn't someone who coasted on a pretty face. She's a craftsperson. I've always found her quietly underrated — carrying a superhero franchise solo week after week is genuinely hard, and she did it with warmth and conviction throughout.

Name (English)

Melissa Benoist

Name (Japanese)

メリッサ・ベノイスト

Reading

めりっさ・べのいすと

Born

October 4, 1988 (age 37)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Dragon

Origin

Houston, Texas, United States

Height

2 cm

Occupation

actor / singer / dancer / television director / voice actor

High school

Arapahoe High School

University

Marymount Manhattan College

Motto

Private

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/melissabenoist/
• Xhttps://x.com/MelissaBenoist
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A1%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%82%B5%E3%83%BB%E3%83%99%E3%83%8E%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88

Tags

• Texas
• actor
• singer
• dancer

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.