--- description: She'll play the boss to Melissa Benoist's title character title: Calista Flockhart Joins 'Supergirl' Pilot image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt19d5a61140139410/698780a4524fc059d8dec9c3/calista-flockheart.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Calista Flockhart Joins _Supergirl_ Pilot  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 23, 2015 10:19 PM CUT  Calista Flockhart arrives at the 2014 Vanity Fair Oscar Party on March 2, 2014 in West Hollywood, Calif. Calista Flockhart arrives at the 2014 Vanity Fair Oscar Party on March 2, 2014 in West Hollywood, Calif.Mark Sullivan—WireImage/Getty Images  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 23, 2015 10:19 PM CUT Calista Flockhart hasn’t been a regular face on television since _Brothers & Sisters_ ended in 2011, but that might change if [her new superpowered pilot](http://deadline.com/2015/02/calista-flockhart-cast-supergirl-pilot-cat-grant-1201379787/ "undefined") gets picked up. The former _Ally McBeal_ actress will star opposite Melissa Benoist in the CBS pilot _Supergirl_, _Deadline_ reports. In this adaptation of a DC Comics story, Flockhart will play Cat Grant, the media mogul boss of Kara Zor-El (Benoist), a 24-year-old alien from planet Krypton who, in addition to being Superman’s cousin, decides to stop hiding the special powers she’s long avoided embracing. Flockhart’s co-starring role in the pilot could mark both her return to network television, and it will reunite her with writer-executive producer Greg Berlanti, who worked on _Brothers & Sisters_. \[[_Deadline_](http://deadline.com/2015/02/calista-flockhart-cast-supergirl-pilot-cat-grant-1201379787/ "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3719610/supergirl-calista-flockhart/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3719610/supergirl-calista-flockhart/"},"headline":"Calista Flockhart Joins Supergirl Pilot","datePublished":"2015-02-23T22:19:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T04:38:56.147Z","description":"She'll play the boss to Melissa Benoist's title character","url":"https://time.com/3719610/supergirl-calista-flockhart/","keywords":["Television","Supergirl"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt19d5a61140139410/698780a4524fc059d8dec9c3/calista-flockheart.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt19d5a61140139410/698780a4524fc059d8dec9c3/calista-flockheart.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"2014 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Graydon Carter - Arrivals","caption":"2014 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Graydon Carter - Arrivals","creditText":"Mark Sullivan—WireImage/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3719610/supergirl-calista-flockhart/","name":"Calista Flockhart Joins Supergirl Pilot"}}]}] ```