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Benjamin David Salisbury (born October 19, 1980, in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American actor best known for playing the role of Brighton Sheffield on the CBS television sitcom The Nanny, from 1993 to 1999.

In 1998, he was graduated from Wayzata High School in Plymouth, Minnesota, and enrolled in American University in Washington, D.C., that fall. After completing his bachelor of arts degree in broadcast journalism, Salisbury married Kelly Murkey on July 2, 2006.

An accomplished dancer, Salisbury would often treat The Nanny studio audiences to improvisational routines when the cameras weren’t rolling.

Salisbury also played Martin Short’s son in the 1992 film Captain Ron, and appeared in D3: The Mighty Ducks (1996) as the sports announcer.

Salisbury was also lined up to play Bart Simpson in the Simpsons live-action movie which was greenlit at the height of Simpsons mania in 1992.

Salisbury was a contestant on the hit quiz show Jeopardy! where he competed in a very special Teen Celebrity Jeopardy! against Kirsten Dunst and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Salisbury won with $1 but received $15,000 for his charity while Dunst and Levitt each received $10,000 for theirs.

He appeared in the reunion of the sitcom The Nanny titled The Nanny Reunion: A Nosh to Remember with Fran Drescher, Renee Taylor, Rachel Chagall and other The Nanny cast.

In August 2006, Salisbury was featured in Domino's pizza commercials featuring Fudgeums, Domino’s then-new mini-brownies.

He has three siblings (two sisters and a brother) with whom he is very close.

He currently works for the NHL team, the Los Angeles Kings.

External links

• Benjamin Salisbury at the Internet Movie Database