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Also known as Melissa Marie Benoist

American actress and singer

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Melissa Benoist is an American author and performer whose career began in 2008. She is the author of four works, including *Haven's Secret* (the Powers Book 1), *Haven's Legacy* (the Powers Book 2), and *Supergirl*. Crossref lists five works associated with her name.

Born on October 4, 1988, Benoist stands 1.73 meters tall. She has one child and maintains a social media following of 944,467. Her musical profile includes tags such as USA, pop, female vocalists, glee, and supergirl, with a total playcount of 154,425 and 15,388 listeners.

Synthesized by Vinony from 19 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
4

Top works

  • Haven's Legacy (the Powers Book 2)
  • Haven's Secret (the Powers Book 1)
  • Haven's Secret
  • Supergirl

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
United States
Active from
1988-10-04

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
15,388
Total plays
154,425

Tags

USApopfemale vocalistsgleesupergirl

Melissa Marie Benoist (born October 4, 1988) is an American actress and singer known for her portrayal of Marley Rose on season four and the first part of season five on the Fox musical comedy-drama television series Glee. She has also appeared in a number of television series including Homeland, The Good Wife and Law & Order. Benoist's first film was in singer Mariah Carey's Tennessee. She appeared in the film Whiplash (2014), which won top prizes (Grand Jury and Audience awards) at the Sundanc

via Last.fm · Melissa Benoist

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Global cancer statistics

    · 2011 · cited 23,192x

  2. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

    · 2001 · cited 18,614x

  3. A global reference for human genetic variation

    · 2015 · cited 17,783x

  4. Theory Building From Cases: Opportunities And Challenges

    · 2007 · cited 12,138x

  5. A program for annotating and predicting the effects of single nucleotide polymorphisms, SnpEff

    · 2012 · cited 11,281x

via Crossref · CC0

Key facts

Born
Melissa Marie Benoist , ( 1988-10-04 ) October 4, 1988 (age 37) , Houston , Texas, U.S.
Education
Marymount Manhattan College ( BA )
Occupations
Actress singer
Years active
2000–present
Spouses
Blake Jenner ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2013 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2017 ) ​ Chris Wood ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2019 ) ​

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

Melissa Marie Benoist (/bəˈnɔɪst/ bə-NOYST; born October 4, 1988) is an American actress and singer. Her first major role was as Marley Rose on the Fox musical comedy drama Glee (2012–2014), in which she was a series regular during the fifth season. She rose to widespread prominence for portraying the title character on the superhero series Supergirl (2015–2021).

Benoist's film appearances include the drama Whiplash (2014), the comedy drama Danny Collins (2015), the crime comedy Band of Robbers (2015), the romantic Western The Longest Ride (2015), the action thriller Patriots Day (2016), the drama Lowriders (2016), and the comedy drama Sun Dogs (2017). She also portrayed the wife of cult leader David Koresh on the Paramount Network miniseries Waco (2018). On stage, Benoist made her Broadway debut in 2018 as Carole King in the jukebox musical Beautiful: The Carole King Musical.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Melissa Benoist” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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