Liza Snyder

Snyder was born at Northampton which is located in Massachusetts. Her mother, who sings and songwriters has been her father. He is also 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 consumer journalist, were her maternal grandparents. Snyder was a graduate of New York City's Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre where she specialized in acting under the tutelage of Sanford Meisner. Snyder began her acting career with television dramas like The Trials of Rosie O'Neill or Murder, She Wrote. In 1993, she was offered the main role of Molly Whelan in the ABC as well as the later syndicated crime drama Sirens. She was a co-star in two television films, as well as appearing as guest for Chicago Hope and Pacific Blue following the cancellation of the show. Her role was regular in the NBC comedy Jesse starring Christina Applegate from 1998-2000. The big screen debut of Snyder was the role that was a secondary one in Pay It Forward directed by Mimi Leder. Snyder started her acting career on Christine Hughes, a CBS sitcom Yes, Dear, later in the same year. The show ended in 2006 when it was cancelled. In the years following, Yes, Dear, Snyder had a five-year hiatus. In 2011, she came back to TV with a guest 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 in an episode of Raising Hope from 2013.