# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/melissa-benoist
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:12:21.511Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/melissa-benoist"
name: "Melissa Benoist"
slug: "melissa-benoist"
description: "Melissa Marie Benoist 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)."
tagline: "American actress and singer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Melissa_Benoist_(48477063086)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1988-10-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           62.55
  momentum:             8.981922691187421
  historical:           25.96797333333334
  currentAttention:     10.96
  sourceConfidence:     85
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "MelissaBenoist"
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    handle:    "melissabenoist"
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    handle:    "MelissaBenoistOfficial"
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    title: "Մելիսա Բենոիսթ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump