Liza Snyder

Snyder was raised in Northampton, Massachusetts. She has a father who is assistant professor of theatre as well as music at Smith College. Johnny Green was a five-time Academy Award winning composer and Betty Furness who was a performer and consumer journalist were her maternal grandparents. Snyder earned her degree from the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City, where she was a student of Sanford Meisner. Snyder started her acting career by appearing in television dramas including The Trials of Rosie O'Neill and Murder, She Wrote. In 1993, she was tapped in the role of Molly Whelan on the ABC-syndicated crime-drama Sirens. She co-starred with two television films, as well as appearing as a guest star for Chicago Hope and Pacific Blue following the cancellation of the show. She was a regular in the NBC comedy Jesse which starred Christina Applegate from 1998-2000. She made her big screen debut in a supporting part in the Pay It Forward movie produced by Mimi Leder. The same year, Snyder began to star in Christine Hughes in CBS's sitcom Yes, Dear. The show ended in 2006. Following the end of Yes, Dear, Snyder was absent for five years. In 2011, she came back on television, this time with a guest star part in an episode of House in which she played a patient in need of a lung transplant. The actress reprised her role in Yes, Dear in an episode of Raising Hope from 2013.