Liza Snyder

Snyder has been born in Northampton, Massachusetts. She has a father who is Associate Professor of Theatre and of music in Smith College. Her grandparents are five-time Academy Award-winning composer, Johnny Green, and the actor and journalist, 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 TV dramas including The Trials of Rosie O'Neill and Murder, She Wrote. The first time she was cast in a major character, Molly Whelan, in 1993's ABC crime drama Sirens. She co-starred with two television films and was an actor in Chicago Hope and Pacific Blue when the show was pulled. She was also a regular on her role in the NBC comedy Jesse which starred Christina Applegate from 1998-2000. Her first big screen appearance was the role that was a secondary one in Pay It Forward, written and directed by Mimi Leder. Snyder made her debut on screen as Christine Hughes, a CBS sitcom Yes, Dear, later the same year. The series ended its run in 2006. concluded. Snyder had a brief hiatus for five years following Yes, Dear. Then, in 2011, she returned to the screen with a guest-starring role on an episode of House as a patient in need of a lung transplant. In a Raising Hope episode from 2013, she reprised the Yes, Dear character.