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Eliot Salt

Eliot Salt
Born
Eliot Mary Salt

Alma materUniversity of Bristol
London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
OccupationActress
Years active2013–present

Eliot Mary Salt is an English actress, theatre maker, and writer.

Early life and education

Salt is from Stockport, Greater Manchester. She studied English at the University of Bristol and later trained in Acting at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA).[1][2][3]

Career

Salt made her television debut in 2019 in 4 episodes of the Channel 4 sitcom GameFace. In 2020, Salt began playing Evelyn in the Sky One spy comedy series Intelligence. She also appeared as Joanna, Marianne's friend at Trinity College Dublin, in the BBC Three and Hulu miniseries Normal People.[4] She starred as Terra in the 2021 Netflix series Fate: The Winx Saga.[5][6]

She was cast in Manor at the National Theatre.[7]

Deadpan Theatre and Mack and Salt

Salt founded Deadpan Theatre with Artemis Fitzalan Howard in 2013.[8] The pair co-wrote Low Tide in Glass Bay, Changing Partners, and Get Your Shit Together.[9]

It was here Salt formed a comedy duo with Jude Mack, whom she met at university, later known as Mack and Salt.[10][11] Mack and Salt's productions through Deadpan include Predrinks / After Party and Third Wheel.[12] It was announced in January 2021 that BBC Three had picked up Mack and Salt's pilot Amicable, a screen adaptation of the former, which they would write and star in.[13]

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
2019 GameFace Frances 4 episodes
2020–2021 Intelligence Evelyn Main role
2020 Normal People Joanna 6 episodes
2021–2022 Fate: The Winx Saga Terra Harvey Main role
2021 Dalgliesh Madeleine Goodale 2 episodes
2023 Slow Horses Sarah 6 episodes

Stage

Year Title Role Notes
2014 Low Tide in Glass Bay Bronnie Writer; Alma Tavern Theatre, Bristol
Landor Theatre, London
Underbelly, Edinburgh Fringe Festival
White Theatre, Bristol
2014 Changing Partners Writer; Alma Tavern Theatre, Bristol
Rialto Theatre, Brighton Fringe
2015 Get Your Shit Together Marguerite Writer; Underbelly, Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Landor Theatre, London
2015 In Other Words Various Barbican Theatre, Plymouth
2016 PreDrinks / AfterParty Ally Writer; Underbelly, Edinburgh Fringe Festival
2016 Pulling Out Caitlin UK tour[14]
2017 Third Wheel Polly Writer; Guilded Balloon, Edinburgh
2023–2024 The House of Bernarda Alba Amelia National Theatre, London
2024 Roots Jenny Beales Almeida Theatre, London

Audio

Year Title Role Notes
2013 The Confessions of Caminada Woman BBC Radio 4

References

  1. ^ "Mack & Salt Bring THIRD WHEEL To Bloomsbury Theatre". Broadway World. 13 February 2018. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
  2. ^ "2018 graduates". LAMDA. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
  3. ^ Henley, Rowena (23 April 2020). "Why Normal People's Eliot Salt Is Thankful For Her Parents' Brutal Honesty". Bustle. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
  4. ^ Prahl, Amanda (28 April 2020). "Eliot Salt as Joanna". PopSugar. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
  5. ^ "TV preview: Rising stars Abigail Cowen, Danny Griffin, Eliot Salt, and Precious Mustapha on Netflix's new fairy series". The Herald. 13 February 2021. Retrieved 9 March 2021.
  6. ^ Pearce, Tilly (7 February 2021). "Fate: The Winx Saga season 2: Eliot Salt teases Flora's arrival – and how Terra will react". Metro. Retrieved 9 March 2021.
  7. ^ "Eliot Salt". National Theatre. March 2020. Retrieved 31 January 2021.
  8. ^ "About Us". Deadpan Theatre. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
  9. ^ "Critically acclaimed Deadpan Theatre return to the Edinburgh Festival with new romantic comedy narrated by on-stage band, Third Wheel". Avalon. 23 May 2017. Retrieved 14 March 2021.
  10. ^ Innis, Tom (1 August 2017). "Interview with Eliot Salt and Jude Mack". Voice. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
  11. ^ Laws, Chloe (20 August 2017). "GRL Talk With Mack & Salt". FGirls Club. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
  12. ^ "Mack and Salt take Third Wheel to London following triumphant Edinburgh Fringe Festival". Avalon. 29 January 2018. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
  13. ^ Richardson, Jay (27 January 2021). "Mack and Salt land BBC Three comedy pilot Amicable". British Comedy Guide. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
  14. ^ "Pulling Out". Documental Theatre. May 2016. Retrieved 14 March 2021.