Liza Snyder

Snyder was born in Northampton, Massachusetts. Her father is an associate professor of theatre and music in Smith College. Johnny Green was a five-time Academy Award winning composer and Betty Furness who was a performer and journalist for the consumer, are her maternal grandparents. Snyder learned to act at The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, New York City. She was taught by Sanford Meisner. Snyder's acting career began with shows of dramas on TV, like The Trials of Rosie O'Neill and Murder, She Wrote. In 1993, she was tapped in the role of Molly Whelan on the ABC-syndicated crime drama Sirens. When the show was cancelled, she co-starred in two made-for-television movies in addition to guest-starring on Chicago Hope, and Pacific Blue. From 1998 to in 2000, she appeared as a regular cast member in the NBC sitcom Jesse with Christina Applegate. In the sitcom Pay It Forward written by Mimi Leder, she played the role of a minor character. The same year, Snyder began to star in Christine Hughes in CBS's sitcom Yes, Dear. The show ended in 2006. Snyder was off for five years after Yes, Dear. In 2011, Snyder returned to the screen with an appearance in the role of a patient with a lung transplant on House. In the Raising Hope episode from 2013 She reprised her Yes, Dear character.