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 on the television series Soap. A notable early movie role was in 1969's Midnight Cowboy, 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 2010 Julia Roberts film Eat Pray Love 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.
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