Liza Snyder

Snyder was 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 who was a performer and journalist for the consumer, are the maternal grandparents of her mother. Snyder was a student in The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, New York City. She was taught by Sanford Meisner. Snyder's acting career began with shows of dramas for television, such as The Trials of Rosie O'Neill and Murder, She Wrote. She landed her first major character, Molly Whelan, in 1993's ABC crime series Sirens. She also co-starred in two TV movies, and also appeared as guest for Chicago Hope and Pacific Blue following the cancellation of the show. In the NBC sitcom Jesse with Christina Applegate, she was a cast member between 1998 and 2000. Her first big screen appearance was the role that was a secondary one in Pay It Forward, directed by Mimi Leder. Following that, Snyder began starring as Christine Hughes on the CBS sitcom Yes, Dear. It ended the show in. After Yes, Dear, Snyder took a break of five years. In 2011, Snyder came back on the screen, this time in an appearance as a patient undergoing lung transplantation in the show House. In the Raising Hope episode from 2013 she reprised her Yes, Dear character.