Liza Snyder

Snyder was born in Northampton in Massachusetts. The father of Snyder is theatre professor in Smith College, and her mother is a musician and singer. Johnny Green is a composer who has received five Academy Award. Betty Furness was an actress, consumer journalist as well as an Academy Award winner. Snyder earned her degree from the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City, where she learned from Sanford Meisner. Snyder made her debut in television dramas like The Trials of Rosie O'Neill and Murder, She Wrote. She landed her first major role as Molly Whelan, in 1993's ABC crime show Sirens. After the show's cancellation and her subsequent appearance in two TV movies as well as guest-starring on Chicago Hope and Pacific Blue. She was a regular in the NBC comedy Jesse starring Christina Applegate from 1998-2000. In Pay It Forward, produced by Mimi Leder, she played in a small role. The same year, Snyder began to star in Christine Hughes in CBS's sitcom Yes, Dear. The series ended in 2006. Snyder was on hiatus of five years after Yes, Dear. In 2011, she made her return on television, this time with a guest star part in an episode of House as a patient who needs a lung transplant. She returned to her Yes, Dear role in a 2013 episode of Raising Hope.