'Glee' actress Melissa Benoist cast as 'Supergirl'

Melissa Benoist will fly from "Glee" into "Supergirl." Benoist, who began playing the good-hearted and somewhat wistful Marley Rose on the fourth season of "Glee," will take off next year as Kara Zor-El in the much-anticipated new CBS prime-time drama 

Melissa Benoist, who played the love interest to Fantastic Four star Miles Teller in Whiplash, will be Supergirl on CBS, according to various reports.HitFix reports that CBS has already given the Greg Berlanti-produced 

Have no fear, your new Supergirl is here! According to Deadline, Warner Bros. TV and Berlanti Prods. have cast Melissa Benoist as their Kara Zor-El for the upcoming CBS series Supergirl. The Glee alum beat out fellow actresses like Claire Holt and

Actress Melissa Benoist is set to star in “Supergirl,” CBS' new one-hour drama, the latest in a flurry of TV shows based on comic book superheroes. The series will be written and executive produced by “No Ordinary Family” team Greg Berlanti (“Arrow

In a world of powerful women on TV — Hayley Atwell in Marvel's Agent Carter, Kerry Washington in Scandal and Taraji P Henson in Empire, it's hard to fit in. That is unless your Glee's Melissa Benoist: she just landed the lead role of the upcoming CBS