American actress Melissa Benoist became popular thanks to work in the television project "Chorus". Maintaining the success and fame of the actress helped the main role in the series, put on a comic book series from DC comics, called "Supergirl", which has been released since 2015.
In the family of a medical worker Jim and a housewife Julia in 1988, a girl was born, who was named Melissa Mary Benoist. Date of birth: October 4. In addition to Melissa herself, this family had two more children, also girls. In addition, when the parents divorced, Jim remarried, Melissa appeared five stepsisters and brothers.
The hometown of Melissa Benoist is Houston, located in Texas, USA. However, the future actress spent her childhood and teenage years in a place called Littleton in Colorado.
Facts from the Melissa Benoist Biography
Melissa began to demonstrate a craving for creativity and art at a very young age. Initially, the girl was fascinated by dancing, because at the age of three years, parents gave the baby to a choreographic studio. A year later, little Melissa mastered the basics of ballet mastery, while standing out from the rest of the children, and also successfully beat off tap dance.
Aunt Melissa worked at the church and organized the celebrations and performances. It was she who called little Melissa into an amateur theatrical play staged at the church as part of one of the holidays. Thus, the first entrance to the stage with the future popular actress took place at the age of four. And from that moment on, the girl had a burning dream of becoming an artist.
While receiving school education until 2007 in Littleton, Melissa also studied at the Theater Arts Studio for children and adolescents. This allowed her to perform at Disneyland in the summer. In addition, as a teenager, Melissa Benoist seriously studied music, vocals and honed her stage skills in one of the theater schools in Colorado.
When Melissa graduated from school, she moved to New York. In this metropolis, the girl entered Marymount Manhattan, where she studied until 2011, choosing the department of theater art. During training, Melissa managed to take part in the filming of the movie "Tennessee", which was released in 2008. In addition, in 2010-2011, the aspiring actress worked in a number of popular television series, including Blue Blood, Law and Order: Special Corps, and Homeland. As a rule, Melissa got small roles, she starred in one or two episodes, but during this period she managed to get a good experience working in front of cameras.
Acting way
Melissa Benoist began to fully develop her career by graduating from higher education in New York. Now in her filmography, there are more than fifteen projects in which she starred.
Having decided not to leave television after small roles in the series, in 2012, Melissa went to the casting for the TV project "Chorus". At that time, three seasons of this series had already been released. Thanks to her acting data, appearance and good set vocals, Melissa still managed to get into the cast of this television project, where she worked until 2014. In total, the young actress starred in 35 episodes. It was the work in this series that drew attention to Melissa and made her popular.
A new career success was the signing of a contract for the television series Supergirl, in which Melissa Benoist was approved for the lead role. The actress to this day works in this project, already becoming famous. The first episodes of Supergirl were released in 2015. In the same year, the actress appeared in a number of feature films: "Second Chance", "Billy Guy". And in 2016, the film "Patriot Day" was released.
Thanks to the role of Supergirl, Melissa Benoist from 2016 began to appear in projects related to this series. She starred in such series as Flash, The Legends of Tomorrow, Arrow, which appear on CW and are combined into one DC comics television universe with Supergirl.
For her role in the Supergirl series, Melissa Benoist was nominated for the Saturn Award in 2016 in the Breakthrough of the Year and Best Television Actress categories. And in 2017, she became the winner of the Teen Choice Awards in the nomination "Best TV Actress of the Action Genre."
