Liza Snyder

Snyder is a native of Northampton, Massachusetts. The mother of her, who is a songwriter and singer has been her father. Snyder is also a theatre professor in Smith College. Her maternal grandparents were five times Academy Award-winning composer, Johnny Green, and the actress and consumer reporter, Betty Furness. Snyder was a graduate of the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City, where she learned from Sanford Meisner. Snyder started her acting career by appearing in episodes of television dramas like The Trials of Rosie O'Neill and Murder, She Wrote. In 1993 she was cast as Molly Whelan on the ABC-syndicated crime drama Sirens. She was a co-star in two television movies, and also appeared as a guest star as a guest on Chicago Hope and Pacific Blue following the cancellation of the show. Between 1998 and the year 2000 she was a a regular cast member in the NBC sitcom Jesse which starred Christina Applegate. In Pay It Forward, which was directed by Mimi Leder, she played an unimportant role. Snyder made her debut on screen as Christine Hughes, a CBS sitcom Yes, Dear, later in the same year. The series ended in the year 2006. Snyder went on a hiatus for five years following Yes, Dear. Her return to TV came in 2011 with a guest-starring part in an episode of House as an uninvolved patient in need of a lung donation. In a Raising Hope episode from 2013 in which she reprised her Yes, Dear character.