Liza Snyder

Snyder was born in Northampton, Massachusetts. Her father is a professor of theatre at Smith College, and her mother is a singer-songwriter. The grandparents of her maternal lineage were a five-time Oscar Award-winning composer Johnny Green, and the actor and journalist, Betty Furness. Snyder was a graduate of the New York's Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in which she learned acting under the guidance from Sanford Meisner. Her career started with the first episodes of dramas for television, like The Trials of Rosie O'Neill, and Murder, She Wrote. In 1993 she was cast in the role of Molly Whelan in the ABC as well as the later syndicated crime drama Sirens. After the show's cancellation the actress starred 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 with Christina Applegate. Her first big screen appearance was the supporting role in Pay It Forward directed by Mimi Leder. Later that year, Snyder began starring as Christine Hughes on the CBS sitcom Yes, Dear. It ended the show in. Snyder took a 5-year break between seasons of Yes, Dear. In 2011, Snyder returned to the screen with her guest role as a transplant patient on House. In a Raising Hope episode from 2013 in which she reprised her Yes, Dear character.