Liza Snyder

Snyder was a native of Northampton, Massachusetts. Her mother, a singer/songwriter and father, is a musician. Snyder is also a professor of theatre at Smith College. She has maternal grandparents who were a five-time Academy Award-winning composer Johnny Green, and the actress and reporter for the consumer, Betty Furness. Snyder learned to act with The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, New York City. She was coached by Sanford Meisner. Snyder first began her acting career in television dramas such as The Trials of Rosie O'Neill and Murder, She Wrote. In 1993, she landed the role 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 as a guest on Chicago Hope and Pacific Blue after the show was cancelled. The NBC sitcom Jesse which starred Christina Applegate, she was part of the cast from 1998 through the year 2000. In Pay It Forward, which was directed by Mimi Leder, she played the role of a minor character. Following that, Snyder began starring as Christine Hughes on the CBS sitcom Yes, Dear. It ended the show in. Snyder went on a hiatus for five years following Yes, Dear. In 2011, she came back to TV with a guest role in an episode of House, playing a patient with a need for a lung transplant. She was back in her Yes, Dear role in an episode from 2013 of Raising Hope.