Liza Snyder

Snyder was born in Northampton, Massachusetts. The father of Snyder is theatre professor in Smith College, and her mother is a singer-songwriter. She has maternal grandparents who were five-time Academy Award-winning composer Johnny Green, and the actress and consumer reporter, Betty Furness. Snyder learned to act with the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, New York City. She was coached by Sanford Meisner. Snyder's career began with episodes of dramas on TV, including The Trials of Rosie O'Neill and Murder, She Wrote. Her first big character, Molly Whelan, in 1993's ABC crime drama Sirens. After the show's cancellation the actress starred in two films on TV and also guest-starred on Chicago Hope and Pacific Blue. The NBC sitcom Jesse with Christina Applegate, she was part of the cast between 1998 and the year 2000. Her big screen debut in a supporting part in the Pay It Forward movie which was directed by Mimi Leder. Snyder began her career as Christine Hughes, a CBS sitcom Yes, Dear, later that same year. In the year 2006, the show concluded. The show ended in 2006. Yes, Dear, Snyder went on hiatus for a period of five years. The actress returned to the screen in 2011 and was a guest on a character on an episode House as an uninvolved patient in need of an organ transplant. The actress reprised her role in Yes, Dear in an episode of Raising Hope from 2013.