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Who Is Melissa Benoist's Husband, Chris Wood?
Attention everyone who is obsessed with Netflix's new fishery / drug ring drama (it's a genre, okay?) The Waterfront, and is now feeling extremely nosy about the real-life love lives of the cast. Saaame.
On that note, we're here to obsess over Melissa Benoist's relationship with her husband Chris Wood, mostly because they are very cute but also pretty low-key. So yes, a deep dive is needed. Urgently!
Chris was cast on Supergirl for the second season in 2016, which is where he met Melissa for the first time. Obviously, they hit it off! Pics from that era incoming:
Here's a pretty diamond ring for your mood board:
Chris and Melissa got married six months later in California and a source told E! News "It was a beautiful setting for a wedding, very peaceful and quiet. The vows were brief and lasted about 15 minutes. There was lots of cheering and applause as it ended."
His names Huxley and he was born in 2020!
If you haven't seen Supergirl and are convinced Chris looks familiar, it's because he played Kai Parker in season six of The Vampire Diaries, though he's honestly a CW veteran. He was also in the network's show The Carrie Diaries AND Containment.
Aka The Flash. As Grant put it, "We went to Elon University together, we were musical theater majors together, and we were very good friends in school." (Their shows even did a crossover episode!)
Chris started working with Mental Health America in 2016, and then founded IDONTMIND in 2017, a "nonprofit with a mission to inspire open conversations about mental health and to provide free resources, education, and encouragement for anyone who needs it."
Back in December, Deadline reported that Melissa and Chris had been cast in Duo, an upcoming drama from NBC. Here's the description: "When a soft-spoken, blue-collar worker (Wood) and a magnetic performer (Benoist) looking for her next break unexpectedly cross paths, their fateful meeting leads to a partnership that changes them both forever."
I'm. IN.
