Matt Salinger

Born in Windsor, Vermont, Matt Salinger is an American actor and producer who started his screen career with a film debut in Revenge of the Nerds (1984) and later took the title role in Captain America (1990). He went on to appear in What Dreams May Come (1998) and in television episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and 24. As a producer, he has worked on independent features such as Let the Devil Wear Black and Mojave Moon. On stage, he debuted on Broadway in 1985 with Bill C. Davis's Dancing in the End Zone at the Ritz Theater, acting alongside Pat Carroll and Dorothy Lyman. In 2000 he produced The Syringa Tree, an off-Broadway play that won a Drama Desk Award, a Drama League Award, an Outer Critic's Circle Award and a Village Voice Obie, the latter for best play of 2001.