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.

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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 38)

Origin

Houston, Texas, United States

Height

173 cm

Occupation

actor / singer / dancer / television director / voice actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Dragon

High school

Arapahoe High School

University

Marymount Manhattan College

Filmography / notable works

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/melissabenoist/
• Xhttps://x.com/MelissaBenoist
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa%20Benoist
• 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
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q46677

Tags

• Texas
• actor
• singer
• dancer

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.