Liza Snyder

Snyder is a native of Northampton, Massachusetts. Her father is a professor of theatre at Smith College, and her mother is a singer-songwriter. Johnny Green was a five-time Academy Award winning composer and Betty Furness was an actress as well as a an editor for a consumer magazine, were their maternal grandparents. Snyder trained in acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, New York City. She was taught by Sanford Meisner. Snyder's acting career began with shows of television dramas such as The Trials of Rosie O'Neill as well as Murder, She Wrote. Snyder landed her first significant part as Molly Whelan, in 1993's ABC crime series Sirens. After the show's cancellation it was her turn to star in two movies on television as well as guest-starring on Chicago Hope and Pacific Blue. Between 1998 and the year 2000 she was a regular cast member in the NBC sitcom Jesse that starred Christina Applegate. Her debut on the big screen was the supporting role in Pay It Forward which was directed by Mimi Leder. Following that, Snyder began starring as Christine Hughes on the CBS sitcom Yes, Dear. The series was cancelled in. Snyder took a break for five years following Yes, Dear. In 2011, she made her return to TV with a guest role in an episode of House, playing a patient suffering from lung transplant. The actress returned to Her Yes, Dear role in an episode from 2013 of Raising Hope.