Liza Snyder

Snyder was born at Northampton located in Massachusetts. Her father is a professor of theatre at Smith College, and her mother is a songwriter and singer. Johnny Green was a five-time Academy Award winning composer and Betty Furness is an actress and an editor for a consumer magazine, were her maternal grandparents. Snyder is a graduate of New York's Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in which she learned acting under the guidance from Sanford Meisner. Snyder started her acting career by appearing in TV dramas including The Trials of Rosie O'Neill and Murder, She Wrote. In 1993, she landed the role as Molly Whelan on the ABC-syndicated crime-drama Sirens. Following the cancellation of Sirens the actress starred in two films on TV in addition to guest-starring on Chicago Hope and Pacific Blue. In the NBC sitcom Jesse, starring Christina Applegate, she was part of the cast from 1998 through the year 2000. In the show Pay It Forward written by Mimi Leder, she played in a small role. Following that, Snyder began starring as Christine Hughes on the CBS sitcom Yes, Dear. The show ended in 2006 when it was cancelled. Snyder had a break of five years following the conclusion of Yes, Dear. In 2011, Snyder made her return on the screen, this time in an appearance as a lung-transplant patient on House. She returned to the role of Yes, Dear role in a 2013 episode of Raising Hope.