Schneier was born in 1877 in Bobt, Kovno Gubernia. Her father was grain merchant, a maskhil. She learned Yiddish. At the age of twelve she came with her mother and family to her father, who had earlier immigrated to America. Here for a short time she attended school, but she soon lost the desire to learn, and through her older sister became a member in a dramatic club. Due to the partnership of her parents with regard to her acting, she entered into work in a cigar factory and in the evening she would "run to tryouts." She debuted as "Babele" in "Di farblonjete neshome." She became familiar with professional actors, and with them went away to act in theatre.

Professionally she began with Kristol and Bergstein in Cleveland, where she acted for a season, then she spent two seasons with Glickman in Chicago, where she was introduced to actor Sam Schneier, with whom she married and acted, and since then together with him for a certain time in vaudeville in New York, then she spent a season with Mike Thomashevsky in Philadelphia, later seven to eight seasons with David Kessler, Teilman in leading roles for women, including one season in the Lipzin Theatre with Keni Lipzin, and again she returned to Kessler, a half-season with Anshel Schorr in Philadelphia, and then she went over to Gabel's in New York. Later she spent several seasons in the "Irving Place Theatre," the "McKinley Square Theatre," and then she went to Detroit and various other cities, crossing over from dramatic to mother roles.