Life and career

Salt was born in Los Angeles, California. Her parents were screenwriter Waldo Salt and actress Mary Davenport; her stepmother was the writer Eve Merriam. She attended the High School of Performing Arts in New York City and graduated from Sarah Lawrence College.

She has made several stage appearances, winning a 1971 Theatre World award as Estelle in the play, Father's Day, but she is best remembered as Eunice Tate-Leitner, the snobbish daughter of Chester and Jessica Tate in the television series Soap. An early movie role was in Midnight Cowboy (1969), as Joe Buck's home town lover, Crazy Annie. While living with actress Margot Kidder in Malibu in the early-1970s, she worked in tandem with American director Brian De Palma in the films The Wedding Party, Hi, Mom!, and Sisters, and appeared with Cornel Wilde and a young Scott Glenn in the TV film, Gargoyles.

She is currently retired from acting, and pursuing her writing career, including episode scripts for Nip/Tuck and other programs. She is a co-writer of the script for the Julia Roberts film Eat Pray Love (2010) based on Elizabeth Gilbert's best-selling memoir of the same name.

In 2006, she was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for the Nip/Tuck episode, "Rhea Reynolds."

In 2011, she joined the FX horror series American Horror Story as a writer and co-executive producer.

Family

Her son, Jonah Greenberg, is a talent agent with CAA Beijing.

Jennifer Lawrence, her niece also played starring roles in movies such as: The Hunger Games series and American Hustle.

Theater

Actress

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1970	Watercolor	Gloria
1971	Father's Day	Estelle	Won Theater World award
1981	Hasty Heart
1982	Diplomacy

Filmography

Actress

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1968	Murder a la Mod	a 'Bird'	(credited as Jenifer Salt)
1969	The Wedding Party	Phoebe
1969	Midnight Cowboy	Annie - Texas
1970	Hi, Mom!	Judy Bishop
1970	The Revolutionary	Helen
1970	Brewster McCloud	Hope
1972	Play It Again, Sam	Sharon
1973	Sisters	Grace Collier	aka Blood Sisters
1980	It's My Turn	Maisie

Writer

Year	Title	Notes
2003	Tempo
2010	Eat Pray Love	(Screenplay)

Television

Actress

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1972	The F.B.I.	Diane	1 episode - The Franklin Papers
1972	Gargoyles	Diana Boley	TV Movie
1973	Love, American Style		"Love and the Unwedding" segment
1974	The ABC Afternoon Playbreak	Judy Owens	aka ABC Matinee Today
1974	The Great Niagara	Lois	TV movie
1977	All-Star Family Feud Special	Herself	(for Soap)
1978	Family	Susie Robinson	1 episode - Lifeline
1979	Family Fortune	Herself	2 episodes
1979	The Love Boat	Patricia Lucas
1981	Terror Among Us	Connie Paxton	TV Movie
1977-1981	Soap	Eunice Tate	63 episodes
1984	Old Friends	Laura King	TV Movie
1985	Out Of Darkness	Ann Zigo	TV Movie
1986	Magnum, P.I.	Susan Brandis	1 episode - Find Me a Rainbow
1981-1986	It's a Living	Deedee	2 episodes
1986	Family Ties	Mrs. Kluger	1 episode - Be True To Your Preschool
1987	Deadly Care	Carol	TV Movie
1987	Murder, She Wrote	Helen Langley	1 episode - Indian Giver
1988	Duet	Cindy	1 episode - Mommie and Me
1988	Bustin' Loose	Wanda	1 episode - The Parent Trap
1990	Empty Nest	Linda Brody	1 episode - Take My Mom, Please
1990	The Marshall Chronicles	Cynthia Brighman	6 episodes
1990	Lifestories	Helen Forchette	1 episode - Jerry Forchette

Producer

Year	Title	Notes
2003-2010	Nip/Tuck	(Producer, Co-Producer, Supervising Producer, Executive Producer)
2010	The Quickening	(Executive Producer)
2011-present	American Horror Story	(Co-executive Producer)

Writer

Year	Title	Notes
1998	Sins of the City	4 episodes
2000	The Stalking of Laurie Show	TV Movie, aka Rivals
2002	A Nero Wolfe Mystery	Episode: "Cop Killer"
2003-2010	Nip/Tuck	19 episodes*
2011-present	American Horror Story	9 episodes

(* denotes Writers Guild of America Award nomination)

[ Source: Wikipedia ]