Liza Snyder

Snyder is a native of Northampton, Massachusetts. Her mother, who sings and songwriters, is her father. He also is an associate professor of theater at Smith College. Johnny Green was a five-time Academy Award winning composer and Betty Furness was an actress as well as a consumer journalist, were the maternal grandparents of her mother. Snyder trained in acting with the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, New York City. She was coached by Sanford Meisner. Snyder started her acting career with television dramas such as The Trials of Rosie O'Neill as well as Murder, She Wrote. She landed her first major character, Molly Whelan, in 1993's ABC crime-drama Sirens. She co-starred with two television films and was a guest star on Chicago Hope and Pacific Blue following the cancellation of the show. From 1998 to in 2000, she appeared as a regular cast member in the NBC sitcom Jesse that starred Christina Applegate. Her debut on the big screen was the secondary role of Pay It Forward directed by Mimi Leder. At the same time, Snyder began to star as Christine Hughes in CBS's sitcom Yes, Dear. The show ended in the year 2006. Following the end of Yes, Dear, Snyder went on hiatus for a period of five years. Her return to TV came in 2011, with a guest-starring in an episode on House as an individual who required the donation of a lung. She reprised part of her Yes, Dear role in the 2013 season of Raising Hope.