Liza Snyder

Snyder was born in Northampton which is located in Massachusetts. Her father is a professor of theatre at Smith College, and her mother is a musician and singer. She has maternal grandparents who were five-time Academy Award-winning composer Johnny Green, and the actor and journalist, Betty Furness. Snyder is a graduate of New York City's Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre where she was trained in acting under tutelage of Sanford Meisner. Snyder started her acting career in television dramas like The Trials of Rosie O'Neill or Murder, She Wrote. In 1993, she was offered the role of Molly Whelan in the ABC and then syndicated crime drama Sirens. After the series was canceled, she co-starred in two TV movies made for television, and guest starred on Chicago Hope, and Pacific Blue. The actress was a regular on the NBC comedy Jesse that starred Christina Applegate from 1998-2000. She made her big screen debut in a supporting part in the Pay It Forward movie written by Mimi Leder. That same year, Snyder began to star in Christine Hughes in CBS's sitcom Yes, Dear. The series ended its run in 2006. concluded. Snyder took a 5-year break after Yes, Dear. Her return to TV came in 2011 with a guest-starring role on an episode of House as the patient that needed to donate her lung. She reprised the role of Yes, Dear in an episode of Raising Hope from 2013.