Liza Snyder

Snyder was born in Northampton which is located in Massachusetts. She has a father who is Associate Professor of Theatre and musical theatre in Smith College. Her grandparents are five times Oscar Award-winning composer Johnny Green, and the actress and consumer journalist Betty Furness. Snyder completed her studies at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City, where she was a student of Sanford Meisner. Snyder's career began with episodes of dramas for television, 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. After the show's cancellation it was her turn to star in two television films as well as guest-starring on Chicago Hope and Pacific Blue. She was a regular in the NBC comedy Jesse that starred Christina Applegate from 1998-2000. In the Pay It Forward show, written by Mimi Leder, she played the role of a minor character. Snyder made her debut on screen as Christine Hughes, a CBS sitcom Yes, Dear, later that same year. The series ended in 2006. The show ended in 2006. Yes, Dear, Snyder went on hiatus for a period of five years. In 2011, she returned to the screen with a guest-starring role on an episode of House as a patient with a need for a lung transplant. She reprised Yes, Dear in an episode of Raising Hope from 2013.