Liza Snyder

Snyder is a native of Northampton, Massachusetts. The mother of her, who is a songwriter and singer, is her father. Snyder is also an instructor of theatre at Smith College. Johnny Green is a composer who has won five Academy Awards. Betty Furness was an actress, consumer reporter and a former Academy Award winner. Snyder earned her degree from the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City, where she received instruction from Sanford Meisner. Snyder first began her acting career in episodes of television dramas like The Trials of Rosie O'Neill and Murder, She Wrote. In 1993 she was cast in the role of Molly Whelan on the ABC-syndicated crime drama Sirens. After the show's cancellation the actress starred in two films on TV in addition to guest-starring on Chicago Hope and Pacific Blue. In the NBC sitcom Jesse, starring Christina Applegate, she was in the cast from 1998 until 2000. Her first big screen appearance was the supporting role in Pay It Forward, written and directed by Mimi Leder. In the same year, Snyder began to star in Christine Hughes in CBS's sitcom Yes, Dear. The show ended in 2006 when it concluded. Snyder had a brief hiatus for five years following Yes, Dear. Then, in 2011, she returned to TV with a guest character in an episode on House in which she played a patient who needs a lung transplant. In the Raising Hope episode from 2013, she reprised the Yes, Dear character.