It’s a hen! It’s a aircraft! It’s a heartfelt goodbye! Melissa Benoist is hanging up her cape after main The CW’s Supergirl for six seasons.
“Thanks for an unimaginable 6 years,” Benoist, 32, shared through Instagram on Friday, August 6. She included a photograph of her alongside longtime castmates Chyler Leigh and David Harewood, who’ve been collection regulars because the pilot episode, of their full superhero costumes.
Melissa Benoist on the set of ‘Supergirl’. Courtesy Melissa Benoist/Instagram
The Kara Danvers actress, who scored the position as Superman’s cousin in 2015, went on to thank, “the solid who grew to become household, everybody who labored on the present, all of you who watched us week after week ♥️♥️♥️.”
Benoist concluded, “That’s a wrap on @supergirlcw.”
The Glee alum was the primary female-led superhero present among the many interconnected DC Comics applications on The CW, a.ok.a. the Arrowverse. The present launched her to Chris Wooden, who performed Supergirl’s love curiosity, Mon-El, in season 2. Although Kara and Mon-El didn’t final, Wooden and Benoist are a extra profitable couple offscreen.
They married in September 2019 and introduced the delivery of their first youngster, son Huxley, in September 2020, noting that he’d arrived “a couple of weeks” prior.
In her Instagram Story, she added a selfie taken whereas carrying her face masks. “Saying goodbye to this glyph,” she wrote simply above the long-lasting emblem. The S-shield is each a household insignia for the Home of El in addition to an emblem of hope for the collection.
Melissa Benoist. Instagram/Melissa Benoist
The Broadway star beforehand defined that the choice to finish Supergirl was unanimous among the many artistic staff. “I believe all of us form of got here to this conclusion. We’re so happy with the whole lot we’ve been capable of accomplish. … I believe creatively we have been all capable of step again and say that we’re actually happy with the whole lot we’ve finished and it felt like the suitable time,” she instructed Leisure Weekly in March.
Benoist first introduced the top was close to in September 2020. She famous that Kara meant simply as a lot to her because the followers.
“She’s taught me energy I didn’t know I had, to search out hope within the darkest of locations, and that we’re stronger after we’re united,” the New York College alum shared through Instagram on the time. “What she stands for pushes all of us to be higher. She has modified my life for the higher, and I’m without end grateful.”
The ultimate episodes of Supergirl begin Tuesday, August 24 on The CW.
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