Liza Snyder

Snyder was raised in Northampton, Massachusetts. Her mother, a singer/songwriter was her father. He is also a theatre professor at Smith College. Her grandparents are a five-time Academy Award-winning composer, Johnny Green, and the actress and reporter for the consumer, Betty Furness. Snyder is a graduate of the New York City's Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in which she studied acting under the tutelage under the guidance of Sanford Meisner. Snyder started her acting career by appearing in episodes of television dramas including The Trials of Rosie O'Neill and Murder, She Wrote. She was in 1993 cast as Molly Whelan on the ABC-syndicated crime-drama Sirens. Following the cancellation of the show the actress starred with her co-star in two television movies that were made to be broadcast which she also guest starred in, Chicago Hope, and Pacific Blue. The NBC sitcom Jesse with Christina Applegate, she was a cast member from 1998 to 2000. In the show Pay It Forward produced by Mimi Leder, she played an unimportant role. The following year, Snyder began starring as Christine Hughes on the CBS sitcom Yes, Dear. The show ended in 2006 when it was cancelled. After Yes, Dear, Snyder was absent for five years. Then, in 2011, Snyder returned to screen in her guest role as a lung-transplant patient in the show House. The actress reprised part of her Yes, Dear role in a 2013 episode of Raising Hope.