The Emmy and Golden Globe-winning Australian actor welcomed a daughter in 2023 with her comedian husband Dave Lawson, and she has now revealed her priorities shifted and finds it "very confronting", but she's determined to be "present" while her little girl is growing up.
"I've always wanted to be a parent," Snook told Stylist magazine.
"I think the thing that surprised me the most is I'm a fairly ambitious person in terms of career - I think you have to be in some ways, to withstand rejection and the vicissitudes of this acting life - but I've been struck not by the loss of ambition but the dampening and re-prioritising of ambition.
"(Getting rid of) that idea of: I have to achieve this by this age. Maybe I will, maybe I won't, but in other great news, I'll be able to be here for my daughter.Â
"So maybe that part can wait and I'll deal with being present for her, which is what I want. Your priorities shift and change, and that can be very confronting."
Snook gave credit to her husband, who also has a son from a previous relationship, for taking on the bulk of parenting duties during the first few years of their daughter's life because the actor was so busy with work.
"I've been fairly lucky in that my husband was a single parent with his son, so they co-parented, and I think that put him into a different kind of routine of just getting s*** done."
Snook is best known for her portrayal of Shiv Roy in TV comedy-drama Succession, a role for which she was recognised with Emmy, Golden Globe and SAG awards.
She has also won Olivier and Tony awards for her theatre turn in The Picture of Dorian Gray, in which the actor from Adelaide played all 26 characters.
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