Melissa Benoist Biography

She started her film career in 2008, with the film ‘Tennessee’. In 2010, she bagged several roles in television series like ‘Blue Bloods’, ‘Law & Order: Special Victims Unit’ and ‘The Good Wife’. In the following year, she was featured as Stacy Moore in an episode of the series ‘Homeland’.

Her breakthrough role came with the series ‘Glee’ in 2012. She auditioned five times at the Roundabout Theatre Company in New York, and had to sing five different songs at each audition. This was followed by two screen tests in California before she was finally selected. She appeared in 35 episodes in four seasons of the drama series. In 2012, she also bagged a contract from Coca-Cola as its ambassador for a new product called Coke Mismo. The campaigns started the following year in Philippines.

She was cast as Nicole in the 2014 film ‘Whiplash’, written and directed by Damien Chazelle. The film earned two awards at the Sundance Film Festival. In 2015, she once again tasted success with the lead role in the television series ‘Supergirl’, developed by Ali Adler, Greg Berlanti and Andrew Kreisberg. It was aired on CBS. In the same year, she did three episodes of the series ‘The Flash’ and landed the leading role in the movie ‘Oxford’ opposite Sam Heughan.

She was featured in the film ‘Juvenile’ in 2017. Benoist and Blake Jenner had started a Kickstarter campaign in 2013, to help fund the production of the film. She was then seen in Paramount Network's miniseries ‘Waco’, which started airing in January 2018.

She was married to fellow actor Blake Jenner from 2015 to 2017. In 2017, she started dating actor Chris Wood. In September 2019, the couple got married. The couple welcomed their first child together, a son named Huxley Robert Wood in 2020.