--- title: CBS Found Its 'Supergirl' description: 'Glee' actress Melissa Benoist will star in the role of Kara Zor-El canonical: https://time.com/3678841/cbs-supergirl-found/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-01-22T18:55:45.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T03:48:18.702Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: CBS Found Its 'Supergirl' og:description: 'Glee' actress Melissa Benoist will star in the role of Kara Zor-El og:url: https://time.com/3678841/cbs-supergirl-found/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt04e7935676e4f639/69877b55e53abaf0704d72de/456835150-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Actress Melissa Benoist attends the premiere of "Whiplash" at Bing Theatre At LACMA on Oct. 6, 2014 in Los Angeles. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: CBS Found Its 'Supergirl' twitter:description: 'Glee' actress Melissa Benoist will star in the role of Kara Zor-El twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt04e7935676e4f639/69877b55e53abaf0704d72de/456835150-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # CBS Found Its Supergirl > Sponsored content. 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Actress Melissa Benoist attends the premiere of "Whiplash" at Bing Theatre At LACMA on Oct. 6, 2014 in Los Angeles.Jason LaVeris—Getty Images by [James Hibberd, Natalie Abrams / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## James Hibberd, Natalie Abrams / Entertainment Weekly Jan 22, 2015 6:55 PM UTC After an extensive search, CBS has cast its _Supergirl_. The network has signed _Glee_ actress Melissa Benoist in the starring role of Kara Zor-El in its series version of the classic comic-book story. Benoist played Marley Rose in seasons four and five of Fox’s _Glee_ and was also in the 2014 indie film _Whiplash._ The show’s official description: “Born on the planet Krypton, Kara Zor-El escaped amid its destruction years ago. Since arriving on Earth, she’s been hiding the powers she shares with her famous cousin. But now at age 24, she decides to embrace her superhuman abilities and be the hero she was always meant to be.” _Supergirl_ is the first super-hero show on CBS in 25 years (since 1990’s short-lived _The Flash_) and follows up on sister-network building its audience with DC heroes like on _Arrow_. At the TCA press tour earlier this month, CBS entertainment chairman Nina Tassler told critics the new Warner Bros.-produced series version of _Supergirl_ will be a crime procedural (naturally). “The beauty of it is now with shows like _Good Wife_ and_Madam Secretary_, you can have serialized story elements woven into a case of the week,” Tassler said. “She’s a crime solver, so she’s going to have to solve a crime. She’s going to get a bad guy.” Tassler further described the CBS version of the DC Comics icon as “a very strong, independent young woman. She’s coming into her own. She’s dealing with family issues. She’s dealing with work issues. It’s a female empowerment story. If you look at the strong female characters we have on the air, it really is resonant of that … We’re big feminists. It’s her intellect, it’s her skill, it’s her smarts. It’s all of those elements. It’s not just her strength, which she does have.” Tassler also emphasized the actress has to carry the series. “She’s got to be an every woman,” she said. “She’s got to be specific. She’s got to be a terrific actor … it’s looking for someone who embodies both the freshness and the exuberance of being a young woman in today’s challenging climate and being someone who can carry this kind of series on her shoulders. It’s a big, big show.” Benoist is far from the first actress to don Supergirl’s red cape. Helen Slater portrayed the heroine in the 1984 eponymous film, while Laura Vandervoort suited up on The CW’s _Smallville_. Even geek goddess Summer Glau (_Dollhouse_, _Firefly_) voiced Kara in the direct-to-video animated film _Superman/Batman: Apocalypse_. _This_ [_article_](http://insidetv.ew.com/2015/01/22/supergirl-melissa-benoist/?hootPostID=72fcff6a84a27fddbf6fc064a3de7513) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com)_._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3678841/cbs-supergirl-found/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3678841/cbs-supergirl-found/"},"headline":"CBS Found Its Supergirl","datePublished":"2015-01-22T18:55:45.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T03:48:18.702Z","description":"'Glee' actress Melissa Benoist will star in the role of Kara Zor-El","url":"https://time.com/3678841/cbs-supergirl-found/","keywords":["Television","CBS","Supergirl"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt04e7935676e4f639/69877b55e53abaf0704d72de/456835150-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"James Hibberd, Natalie Abrams / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt04e7935676e4f639/69877b55e53abaf0704d72de/456835150-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Actress Melissa Benoist attends the premiere of \"Whiplash\" at Bing Theatre At LACMA on Oct. 6, 2014 in Los Angeles.","caption":"Actress Melissa Benoist attends the premiere of \"Whiplash\" at Bing Theatre At LACMA on Oct. 6, 2014 in Los Angeles.","creditText":"Jason LaVeris—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/3678841/cbs-supergirl-found/","name":"CBS Found Its Supergirl"}}]}] ```