Jennifer Salt began her career as an actress; for three decades she performed on stage, television and in movies. She is the daughter of screenwriter Waldo Salt, who was one of the original advisors at Sundance, survived the Hollywood blacklist and went on to win Academy Awards. In 1990, Salt changed her focus to screenwriting. She began writing unproduced theatrical screenplays and movies for broadcast television. She wrote on the series Sins of the City for USA Network and Nero Wolfe Mysteries for A&E.
For FX, Salt wrote and produced eight seasons of Nip/Tuck and five seasons of American Horror Story. With Ryan Murphy, she co-wrote the screenplay of Eat Pray Love, based on the book by Elizabeth Gilbert. Salt was an executive producer on season one of Ratched at Netflix.
