Nancy Snyder (born December 2, 1949) is an American actress who won the Clarence Derwent Award in 1976 and the Outer Critics Circle Best Actress award in the 1977–78 season.

Life and career

Snyder was born in Kankakee, Illinois, the daughter of Idelle ( Bonham) and John Marshall Snyder Sr., a director of research. She opened in Jules Feiffer's comedy, Knock Knock, and went on to win the Clarence Derwent Award for the "most promising female [actor] on the metropolitan scene" for the 1975–76 season. She won Best Actress in the 1977–78 season in the annual awards given by the Outer Critics Circle for her role in Fifth of July. From 1978–1983, she was a regular on the ABC soap opera, One Life to Live, playing a hooker with a heart of gold, Katrina Karr. She appeared in the Lanford Wilson play, Angels Fall, in 1982, which was nominated for a Tony Award, and in Wilson's Book of Days at the Signature Theater in 2002. During her run on One Life to Live, she met co-star Stephen Schnetzer, who played Marcello Salta on the show. The two married in 1982 and divorced in 2015. They have two children, Max and Ben Schnetzer, an actor.

Filmography

Stage

Film

Television