Jennifer Salt (born September 4, 1944) is an American producer, screenwriter, and former actress known for playing Eunice Tate on Soap (1977–1981).
Life and career Salt was born in Los Angeles, California, to screenwriter Waldo Salt and actress Mary Davenport. She has a younger sister, Deborah. 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. Salt's father had been blacklisted by Hollywood for most of the 1950s and early 1960s after a run-in with the House Un-American Activities Committee, but managed a triumphant return with the two movies that won him Oscars.
She made several stage appearances, winning a 1971 Theatre World award as Estelle in the play Father's Day, and she portrayed Eunice Tate-Leitner, the snobbish daughter of Chester and Jessica Tate in the television comedy series Soap. An early movie role was in Midnight Cowboy (1969) as Joe Buck's hometown 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 (1969), Hi, Mom! (1970), and Sisters (1972), and appeared with Cornel Wilde and Scott Glenn in the TV film Gargoyles (1972)..
Salt has retired from acting, and pursued a writing career, including episode scripts for Nip/Tuck and other programs. In 1998, she landed her first steady job in her new profession as a low-rung writer on a cable detective drama titled Sins of the City. 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. She was an executive producer on the American Horror Story anthology series. In 2011, Salt helped work on a pilot for an HBO series based on the memoir Foreign Babes in Beijing written by Rachel DeWoskin.
In 2006, she was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for the Nip/Tuck episode "Rhea Reynolds".
Family Her son, Jonah Greenberg, is a talent agent with CAA Beijing.
Theater
Actress Year Title Role Notes1970WatercolorGloria1971Father's DayEstelleWon Theater World award1981Hasty Heart1982Diplomacy
Filmography
Actress Year Title Role Notes1968Murder a la Moda Bird(credited as Jenifer Salt)1969The Wedding PartyPhoebe1969Midnight CowboyAnnie - Texas1970Hi, Mom!Judy Bishop1970The RevolutionaryHelen1970Brewster McCloudHope1972Play It Again, Sam Sharon1972GargoylesDiana1972SistersGrace Collieraka Blood Sisters1980It's My TurnMaisie1985Out of the DarknessAnn Zigo
Writer Year Title Notes2003Tempo2010Eat Pray Love(Screenplay)
Television
Actress Year Title Role Notes1972The F.B.I.Diane1 episode - "The Franklin Papers"1972GargoylesDiana BoleyTV movie1973Love, American Style"Love and the Unwedding" segment1974The ABC Afternoon PlaybreakJudy Owensaka ABC Matinee Today1974The Great NiagaraLoisTV movie1977All-Star Family Feud SpecialHerself(for Soap) 1978FamilySusie Robinson1 episode1979$weepstake$Episode: "Cowboy, Linda and Angie, Mark"1979Family FortuneHerself2 episodes1979The Love BoatPatricia LucasSeason 3, episode #5: "My Boyfriend's Back"1981Terror Among UsConnie PaxtonTV movie1977–1981 SoapEunice Tate63 episodes1984Old FriendsLaura KingTV movie1985Out of the DarknessAnn ZigoTV movie1986Magnum, P.I.Susan Brandis1 episode - "Find Me a Rainbow"1981–1986It's a LivingDeedee2 episodes1986Family TiesMrs. Kluger1 episode - "Be True To Your Preschool"1987Deadly CareCarolTV movie1987Murder, She WroteHelen Langley1 episode - "Indian Giver"1988DuetCindy1 episode - "Mommie and Me"1988Bustin' LooseWanda1 episode - "The Parent Trap"1990Empty NestLinda Brody1 episode - "Take My Mom, Please"1990The Marshall ChroniclesCynthia Brighman6 episodes1990LifestoriesHelen Forchette1 episode - "Jerry Forchette"
Producer Year Title Notes2003–2010Nip/Tuck(Producer, Co-Producer, Supervising Producer, Executive Producer)2010The Quickening(Executive Producer)2011–2022American Horror Story(Co-executive Producer)2020Ratched(Executive Producer)
Writer Year Title Notes1998Sins of the City4 episodes2000The Stalking of Laurie ShowTV movie, aka Rivals2002A Nero Wolfe MysteryEpisode: "Cop Killer"2003–2010Nip/Tuck19 episodes*2011–presentAmerican Horror Story9 episodes2020Ratched2 episodes (* denotes Writers Guild of America Award nomination)
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