Liza Snyder

Snyder was born at Northampton located in Massachusetts. Her mother, a singer/songwriter and father, is a musician. Snyder is also an associate professor of theater at Smith College. She has maternal grandparents who were five-time Academy Award-winning composer Johnny Green, and the actress and reporter for the consumer, Betty Furness. Snyder was a graduate of the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City, where she received instruction from Sanford Meisner. Snyder began her career appearing in television dramas like The Trials of Rosie O'Neill and Murder, She Wrote. In 1993, she was tapped as Molly Whelan on the ABC-syndicated crime-drama Sirens. In the wake of Sirens's demise and her subsequent appearance in two films on TV as well as guest-starring on Chicago Hope and Pacific Blue. She was a regular in The NBC comedy Jesse that starred Christina Applegate from 1998-2000. The actress made her big screen debut in a second role in Pay It Forward produced by Mimi Leder. Later that year, Snyder began starring as Christine Hughes on the CBS sitcom Yes, Dear. The show ended its run in. Snyder took a 5-year break in the wake of Yes, Dear. Then, in 2011, Snyder returned to the screen with the role of guest-starring as a lung-transplant patient in the show House. The actress reprised her role in Yes, Dear in an episode of Raising Hope from 2013.