Liza Snyder

Snyder was born in Northampton, Massachusetts. The father of her is acting professor of theater as well as music in Smith College. Johnny Green was a five-time Academy Award winning composer and Betty Furness, an actress and consumer journalist, were her maternal grandparents. Snyder graduated from the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City, where she learned from Sanford Meisner. Snyder began her career appearing in dramas on television including The Trials of Rosie O'Neill and Murder, She Wrote. Her first big performance as Molly Whelan, in 1993's ABC crime series Sirens. Following the cancellation of the show and she starred alongside her in two television movies that were made to be broadcast, and guest starred on Chicago Hope, and Pacific Blue. The NBC sitcom Jesse which starred Christina Applegate, she was part of the cast from 1998 through the year 2000. The big screen debut of Snyder was the role that was a secondary one in Pay It Forward, directed by Mimi Leder. Later that year, Snyder began starring as Christine Hughes on the CBS sitcom Yes, Dear. The series ended in 2006. Snyder was off for five years after Yes, Dear. In 2011, she returned on television, this time with a guest star character in an episode on House as a patient who needs a lung transplant. The actress played the role of Yes, Dear role in the 2013 season of Raising Hope.