Liza Snyder

Snyder was born in Northampton located in Massachusetts. Her father is a theatre professor at Smith College, and her mother is a singer-songwriter. Johnny Green was a five-time Academy Award winning composer and Betty Furness is an actress and consumer journalist, were the maternal grandparents of her mother. Snyder has graduated from New York's Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre where she specialized in acting under the supervision by Sanford Meisner. Snyder began her career appearing in TV dramas including The Trials of Rosie O'Neill and Murder, She Wrote. Her first big role as Molly Whelan, in 1993's ABC crime drama Sirens. When the show was cancelled, she co-starred in two television movies that were made to be broadcast in addition to guest-starring on Chicago Hope, and Pacific Blue. She was a regular in Jesse, the NBC comedy Jesse starring Christina Applegate from 1998-2000. Her first big screen appearance was the role that was a secondary one in Pay It Forward directed by Mimi Leder. The same year, Snyder began to star in Christine Hughes in CBS's sitcom Yes, Dear. The show ended its run in. Snyder was off for five years following the conclusion of Yes, Dear. In 2011, she came back to TV with a guest character in an episode on House where she played a person with a need for a lung transplant. The actress was back in her Yes, Dear role in an episode from 2013 of Raising Hope.