Gloria Reuben (born June 9, 1964 in Toronto) is a Canadian actress of film and television, best known for her role on ER.
Her Jamaican mother was a gospel singer. She is a biracial Jamaican Canadian. She began learning piano as a child and studied later music technique and theory, ballet and jazz at the Canadian Royal Conservatory. Her career as an actress was triggered by a few jobs as model and TV ad appearances.
She is best known for her role as Jeanie Boulet, a physician assistant in the hospital infected with HIV. She was a guest star throughout season 1 on ER and was elevated to full time cast member at the beginning of season 2. She continued that role until early season 6, when she departed the show.
In 2000 she sang back up for Tina Turner on her Twenty Four Seven Tour.
In 1996 she was chosen by People as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world.
Gloria reprised her ER role of Jeanie Boulet for the 11th episode of Season 14. Her guest appearance aired on January 3, 2008.
Reuben is the sister of Denis Simpson, an actor and children's television host.
Born in Toronto, as the second youngest of six children of a singer. Inspired by her mother and her oldest brother, a Broadway actor, she began learning piano as a child and studied later music technique and theory, ballet and jazz at the Canadian Royal Conservatory. Her career as an actress was triggered by a few jobs as model and TV ad appearances. After these she moved to L.A. and guest starred in numerous TV series. In 1994 she co-starred next to Jean-Claude Van Damme in Timecop (1994) and later with Johnny Depp in Nick of Time (1995) and several TV movies.
