Liza Snyder

Snyder was a native of Northampton, Massachusetts. She has a father who is assistant professor of theatre and music in Smith College. Her maternal grandparents were a five-time Academy Award winning composer Johnny Green, and the actress and consumer journalist Betty Furness. Snyder was a graduate of the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City, where she was a student of Sanford Meisner. Snyder started her acting career by appearing in TV dramas including The Trials of Rosie O'Neill and Murder, She Wrote. In 1993, she landed the role as Molly Whelan on the ABC-syndicated crime-drama Sirens. She co-starred with two television films, as well as appearing as a guest actor as a guest on Chicago Hope and Pacific Blue when the show was pulled. Between 1998 and the year 2000 she was a a regular participant in the NBC sitcom Jesse which starred Christina Applegate. Her big-screen debut was in the secondary role of Pay It Forward which was directed by Mimi Leder. Snyder began her career as Christine Hughes, a CBS sitcom Yes, Dear, later that same year. The show ended in 2006 when it concluded. After Yes, Dear, Snyder took a break of five years. In 2011, she came back to TV with a guest role in an episode of House as a patient in need of a lung transplant. The actress played her Yes, Dear role in an episode from 2013 of Raising Hope.