Liza Snyder

Snyder was born in Northampton, Massachusetts. She has a father who is theatre professor in Smith College, and her mother is a musician and singer. Her maternal grandparents were a five-time Academy Award winning composer Johnny Green, and the actress and reporter for the consumer, Betty Furness. Snyder trained in acting in the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, New York City. She was coached by Sanford Meisner. The career of Snyder began with episodes of TV dramas, such as The Trials of Rosie O'Neill as well as Murder, She Wrote. In 1993, she was offered the leading role of Molly Whelan in the ABC and later the syndicated crime show Sirens. The show was cancelled in 1993 it was her turn to star in two movies on television and also guest-starred on Chicago Hope and Pacific Blue. In the NBC sitcom Jesse, starring Christina Applegate, she was in the cast from 1998 through the year 2000. In the sitcom Pay It Forward directed by Mimi Leder, she played a minor role. That same year, Snyder began to star in Christine Hughes in CBS's sitcom Yes, Dear. The series was cancelled in. Snyder was off for five years after Yes, Dear. In 2011, she came back on television, this time with a guest star role on an episode of House as a patient suffering from lung transplant. The actress played her Yes, Dear role in the 2013 season of Raising Hope.