Liza Snyder

Snyder was born at Northampton in Massachusetts. Her mother, who sings and songwriters, is her father. He's also an associate professor of theater of theatre at Smith College. Her grandparents are five times Academy Award-winning composer Johnny Green, and the actress and consumer reporter, Betty Furness. Snyder graduated from the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City, where she learned from Sanford Meisner. Snyder made her debut in television dramas such as The Trials of Rosie O'Neill and Murder, She Wrote. She was in 1993 cast as Molly Whelan on the ABC-syndicated crime drama Sirens. When the show was cancelled the actress starred with her co-star in two made-for-television movies as well as guest-starring on Chicago Hope, and Pacific Blue. From 1998 through the year 2000 she was a regular actor on the NBC sitcom Jesse which starred Christina Applegate. In the Pay It Forward show, written by Mimi Leder, she played the role of a minor character. Snyder made her debut on screen as Christine Hughes, a CBS sitcom Yes, Dear, later in the year. The series ended its run in 2006. was cancelled. Snyder went on a five-year hiatus after Yes, Dear. Then, in 2011, Snyder returned to screen in an appearance in the role of a patient with a lung transplant on House. She played her Yes, Dear role in the 2013 season of Raising Hope.