Liza Snyder

Snyder was a native of Northampton, Massachusetts. The father of Snyder is theatre professor in Smith College, and her mother is a songwriter and singer. Her maternal grandparents were a five-time Academy Award-winning composer, Johnny Green, and the actress and consumer journalist Betty Furness. Snyder has graduated from New York City's Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in which she learned acting under the supervision of Sanford Meisner. Snyder first began her acting career in TV dramas including The Trials of Rosie O'Neill and Murder, She Wrote. In 1993 she was cast in the main role of Molly Whelan in the ABC and later the syndicated crime show Sirens. After the series was canceled, she co-starred in two television films made specifically for TV which she also guest starred in, Chicago Hope, and Pacific Blue. She was a regular in The NBC comedy Jesse starring Christina Applegate from 1998-2000. Her big screen debut in a secondary performance in the movie Pay It Forward directed by Mimi Leder. Snyder began her acting career as Christine Hughes, a CBS sitcom Yes, Dear, later that same year. The show ended its run in. The show ended in 2006. Yes, Dear, Snyder was absent for five years. In 2011, she returned to TV with a guest role in an episode of House in which she played a patient suffering from lung transplant. She returned to Her Yes, Dear role in the 2013 season of Raising Hope.