Her father, Arlo Kasper, was a professional actor and Head of Drama at Bethel College in Kansas, where her mother was Professor of Voice.
Regional credits include As Bees in Honey Drown and The Secret Garden at the Arvada Center, winning DDCC Awards.
[4] She appeared in the 2007 Philadelphia and New York City productions of Christopher Durang and Peter Melnick’s Adrift in Macao, for which she won "Best Actress" at the Barrymore Awards for Excellence in Theater.
The New York Times said, "Ms. de Benedet recalls Marlene Dietrich, only with Joan Crawford's brittle rectangular smile from the Warner Brothers years airbrushed into the mix.
[6] In 2011, She played Paula Abagnale on Broadway in the musical Catch Me If You Can,[7] which opened on April 11, 2011, at the Neil Simon Theatre, after beginning performances in March 2011.