Liza Snyder

Snyder is a native of Northampton, Massachusetts. The father of Snyder is professor of theatre in Smith College, and her mother is a songwriter and singer. 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 is a graduate of the New York City's Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in which she specialized in acting under the direction under the guidance of Sanford Meisner. The career of Snyder began with episodes of television dramas including The Trials of Rosie O'Neill and Murder, She Wrote. In 1993 she was cast in the role of Molly Whelan in the ABC and later syndicated crime series Sirens. She also co-starred in two TV movies and appeared as guest as a guest on Chicago Hope and Pacific Blue when the show was pulled. She was also a regular on her role in the NBC comedy Jesse which starred Christina Applegate from 1998-2000. Snyder made her screen debut in a secondary part in the Pay It Forward movie directed by Mimi Leder. That same year, Snyder began to star in Christine Hughes in CBS's sitcom Yes, Dear. In 2006, the series ended. Snyder had a break of five years after Yes, Dear. She returned to TV in 2011 with a guest-starring role on an episode of House as an individual who required an organ transplant. The actress was back in part of her Yes, Dear role in a 2013 episode of Raising Hope.