 On February 19 , 2009 , it was reported that Liev Schreiber would play the role of Ted Winter , Evelyn Salt 's friend and colleague in the CIA . Three days later Chiwetel Ejiofor named as CIA Officer Peabody , who is in pursuit of Salt . Noyce said Ejiofor , whom he first saw in Dirty Pretty Things , seemed to have the " intelligence and disarming sort of obsessiveness " that a counter @-@ intelligence officer would need . August Diehl , who played Salt 's husband Mike Krause , came after a recommendation from Jolie 's partner Brad Pitt , who had worked with Diehl in Inglourious Basterds , and Daniel Olbrychski was chosen for Orlov because Andrei Konchalovsky told Noyce that such an evil Russian character could only be played by a Polish actor . 
