Born 1881in Yekaterinoslav, Ukraine. She graduated from the Russian Dramatic School in Kiev and acted afterwards on the Russian stage and with the major troupes within the Russian state.

In wartime she came to Poland, and together with her husband, Leonid Sniegov, began in 1919 to act in Yiddish plays, at first with the Vilna Troupe, performing in Surgutshov's "Harbst-fidlen (August Violins?)", and later made a tour throughout Poland and Lithuania, and traveled in 1920 to America.

Here O. played several months in Schnitzer's Art Theatre, afterwards a short time at the People's Theatre with Goldenburg and Max Rosenthal, and for a long time, because of union service, in general did not act.

From 1923-24 O. was engaged at the Yiddish Art Theatre where she had, now as Sniegov, acted as "Sarah" in Zhulavsky's "Sabbatai zvi", "Yetta" in Leivick's "Betler (Beggars)", and other pieces manifesting her  performance abilities for cultural and dramatic craft.

After having played the chief female role in Bramson's "Eibiker lign (The Eternal Lie)", O., due to illness, was forced to cut short her acting. She then traveled to Denver, Colorado, was sick for seven months.