Liza Snyder

Snyder was born in Northampton, Massachusetts. The mother of her, who is a songwriter and singer, is her father. He also is an associate professor of theater of theatre at Smith College. Johnny Green was a five-time Academy Award winning composer and Betty Furness was an actress as well as a journalist for the consumer, are her maternal grandparents. Snyder graduated from the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City, where she received instruction from Sanford Meisner. Snyder began her acting career with television dramas like The Trials of Rosie O'Neill as well as Murder, She Wrote. She landed her first major role as Molly Whelan, in 1993's ABC crime show Sirens. After the show's cancellation the actress starred in two films on TV as well as guest-starring on Chicago Hope and Pacific Blue. In the NBC sitcom Jesse with Christina Applegate, she was part of the cast from 1998 until the year 2000. In Pay It Forward, written by Mimi Leder, she played in a small role. Snyder began her acting career as Christine Hughes, a CBS sitcom Yes, Dear, later the same year. It ended the show in. Snyder took a 5-year break after Yes, Dear. In 2011, she made her return to television with guest starring part in an episode of House where she played a person in need of a lung transplant. She returned to the role of Yes, Dear role in an episode in 2013 on Raising Hope.