Liza Snyder

Snyder was a native of Northampton, Massachusetts. She has a father who is assistant professor of theatre and music at Smith College. Her maternal grandparents were five times Academy Award-winning composer Johnny Green, and the actress and reporter for the consumer, Betty Furness. Snyder earned her degree from the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City, where she studied under Sanford Meisner. Snyder began her acting career on television dramas such as The Trials of Rosie O'Neill as well as Murder, She Wrote. The first time she was cast in a major role as Molly Whelan, in 1993's ABC crime drama Sirens. After the show's cancellation, she starred in two television films and also guest-starred on Chicago Hope and Pacific Blue. From 1998 through 1999, she was a regular participant in the NBC sitcom Jesse that starred Christina Applegate. Her big screen debut in a secondary character in the film Pay It Forward directed by Mimi Leder. Following that, Snyder began starring as Christine Hughes on the CBS sitcom Yes, Dear. The series ended in the year 2006. Snyder had a brief hiatus for five years, following Yes, Dear. Her return to TV came in 2011 and was a guest on a part in an episode of House as the patient that needed an organ transplant. She reprised Her Yes, Dear role in an episode from 2013 of Raising Hope.