Liza Snyder

Snyder is a native of Northampton, Massachusetts. Her mother, a singer/songwriter and father, is a musician. He is also a professor of theatre in Smith College. Johnny Green was a five-time Academy Award winning composer and Betty Furness who was a performer and consumer journalist, were her maternal grandparents. Snyder completed her studies at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City, where she learned from Sanford Meisner. Her career started with the first episodes of TV dramas, such as The Trials of Rosie O'Neill as well as Murder, She Wrote. Her first big performance as Molly Whelan, in 1993's ABC crime show Sirens. After the series was canceled the actress starred with her co-star in two television films made specifically for TV in addition to guest-starring on Chicago Hope, and Pacific Blue. In the NBC sitcom Jesse with Christina Applegate, she was a cast member from 1998 through the year 2000. Her first big screen appearance was the secondary role of Pay It Forward which was directed by Mimi Leder. That same year, Snyder began to star in the role of Christine Hughes in CBS's sitcom Yes, Dear. The series ended in the year 2006. Snyder was off for five years after Yes, Dear. In 2011, Snyder made her return to the screen with an appearance as a lung-transplant patient on House. In a Raising Hope episode from 2013 she reprised her Yes, Dear character.