Liza Snyder

Snyder was born at Northampton located in Massachusetts. Her mother, a singer/songwriter, is her father. He also is an associate professor of theater at Smith College. She has maternal grandparents who were five times Academy Award-winning composer, Johnny Green, and the actor and journalist, Betty Furness. Snyder completed her studies at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City, where she received instruction from Sanford Meisner. Snyder started her acting career by appearing in television dramas such as The Trials of Rosie O'Neill and Murder, She Wrote. In 1993 she was cast in the lead role as Molly Whelan in the ABC and then 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 which she also guest starred in, Chicago Hope, and Pacific Blue. She was a regular in the NBC comedy Jesse with Christina Applegate from 1998-2000. Her debut on the big screen was the role that was a secondary one in Pay It Forward which was directed by Mimi Leder. In the same year, Snyder began to star in Christine Hughes in CBS's sitcom Yes, Dear. It ended the show in. Snyder was on hiatus for five years, following Yes, Dear. Snyder returned to television in 2011 and was a guest on a part in an episode of House as the patient that needed a lung donation. She reprised her Yes, Dear role in a 2013 episode of Raising Hope.