Liza Snyder

Snyder was raised in Northampton, Massachusetts. The father of her is Associate Professor of Theatre and of music in Smith College. Johnny Green was a five-time Academy Award winning composer and Betty Furness who was a performer and an editor for a consumer magazine, were her maternal grandparents. Snyder learned to act at The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, New York City. The school was run by Sanford Meisner. Snyder began her career as an actor in TV dramas like The Trials of Rosie O'Neill or Murder, She Wrote. In 1993, she secured the role of Molly Whelan in the ABC and later syndicated crime series Sirens. In the wake of Sirens's demise the actress starred in two films on TV along with guest starring in Chicago Hope and Pacific Blue. From 1998 to in 2000, she appeared as a a regular part of the cast on NBC sitcom Jesse that starred Christina Applegate. In the Pay It Forward show, which was directed by Mimi Leder, she played a minor role. In the following year, Snyder began starring as Christine Hughes on the CBS sitcom Yes, Dear. The show ended in 2006. Following the end of Yes, Dear, Snyder was absent for five years. In 2011, Snyder made her return on the screen, this time in her guest role as a patient undergoing lung transplantation in the show House. The actress reprised part of her Yes, Dear role in a 2013 episode of Raising Hope.