Liza Snyder

Snyder was a native of Northampton, Massachusetts. She has a father who is professor of theatre in Smith College, and her mother is a songwriter and singer. Johnny Green was a five-time Academy Award winning composer and Betty Furness, an actress and an editor for a consumer magazine, were the maternal grandparents of her mother. Snyder was a graduate of New York's Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre where she specialized in acting under the tutelage by Sanford Meisner. Snyder started her acting career on television dramas such as The Trials of Rosie O'Neill or Murder, She Wrote. In 1993, she landed the leading role of Molly Whelan in the ABC and later syndicated crime series Sirens. After the show's cancellation and her subsequent appearance in two movies on television and also guest-starred on Chicago Hope and Pacific Blue. The actress was a regular on Jesse, the NBC comedy Jesse starring Christina Applegate from 1998-2000. In the Pay It Forward show, produced by Mimi Leder, she played in a small role. In the following year, Snyder began starring as Christine Hughes on the CBS sitcom Yes, Dear. The series was cancelled in. The show ended in 2006. Yes, Dear, Snyder was absent for five years. Then, in 2011, she returned to TV with a guest part in an episode of House where she played a person with a need for a lung transplant. The actress returned to her Yes, Dear role in an episode from 2013 of Raising Hope.