Liza Snyder

Snyder has been born in Northampton, Massachusetts. She has a father who is professor of theatre in Smith College, and her mother is a musician and singer. Johnny Green is a composer who has received five Academy Awards. Betty Furness was an actress, consumer reporter and an former Academy Award winner. Snyder was a graduate of the New York City's Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in which she learned acting under the tutelage by Sanford Meisner. Snyder began her career as an actor in TV dramas like The Trials of Rosie O'Neill or Murder, She Wrote. She landed her first major role as Molly Whelan, in 1993's ABC crime-drama Sirens. In the wake of Sirens's demise, she starred in two television films along with guest starring in Chicago Hope and Pacific Blue. In the NBC sitcom Jesse, starring Christina Applegate, she was in the cast between 1998 and the year 2000. Her debut on the big screen was the role that was a secondary one in Pay It Forward, written and directed by Mimi Leder. Snyder started her acting career on Christine Hughes, a CBS sitcom Yes, Dear, later that same year. In the year 2006, the show concluded. After Yes, Dear, Snyder went on hiatus for a period of five years. In 2011, she came back on television, this time with a guest star role in an episode of House as a patient with a need for a lung transplant. The actress reprised her role in Yes, Dear in an episode of Raising Hope from 2013.