Liza Snyder

Snyder was a native of Northampton, Massachusetts. The father of her is associate professor of theatre and musical theatre at Smith College. Johnny Green was a five-time Academy Award winning composer and Betty Furness who was a performer and an editor for a consumer magazine, were the maternal grandparents of her mother. Snyder is a graduate of New York City's Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre where she learned acting under the direction from Sanford Meisner. Her career started with the first episodes of TV dramas, like The Trials of Rosie O'Neill, and Murder, She Wrote. She was in 1993 cast in the role of Molly Whelan on the ABC-syndicated crime-drama Sirens. Following the cancellation of the show the actress starred with her co-star in two television films made specifically for TV in addition to guest-starring on Chicago Hope, and Pacific Blue. Between 1998 and the year 2000 she was a regular actor on the NBC sitcom Jesse starring Christina Applegate. In the sitcom Pay It Forward written by Mimi Leder, she played an unimportant role. Snyder started her acting career on Christine Hughes, a CBS sitcom Yes, Dear, later in the same year. The show ended in 2006. Snyder was on hiatus of five years after Yes, Dear. In 2011, she made her return to the screen with a guest-starring role in an episode of House where she played a person with a need for a lung transplant. She reprised the role of Yes, Dear role in an episode from 2013 of Raising Hope.