Liza Snyder

Snyder was born in Northampton located in Massachusetts. The mother of her, who is a songwriter and singer was her father. He is also an instructor of theatre at Smith College. Johnny Green was a five-time Academy Award winning composer and Betty Furness was an actress as well as a journalist for the consumer, are the maternal grandparents of her mother. Snyder was a graduate of New York's Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre where she studied acting under the guidance from Sanford Meisner. Snyder began her career appearing in dramas on television such as The Trials of Rosie O'Neill and Murder, She Wrote. In 1993, she was tapped 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 along with guest starring in Chicago Hope and Pacific Blue. She was also a regular on The NBC comedy Jesse that starred Christina Applegate from 1998-2000. The big screen debut of Snyder was the second role in Pay It Forward, directed by Mimi Leder. Later that year, Snyder began starring as Christine Hughes on the CBS sitcom Yes, Dear. The series ended its run in 2006. came to an end. After Yes, Dear, Snyder was absent for five years. She returned to TV in 2011 with a guest-starring role on an episode of House as an individual who required an organ transplant. She reprised Yes, Dear in an episode of Raising Hope from 2013.