Gloria Reuben

Gloria Reuben (born June 9, 1964) is a Canadian singer and actress of film and television and producer, known for her role as Jeanie Boulet on the popular medical drama ER and for her role of Rosalind Whitman in the TV show Raising the Bar. --- Reuben was born in Toronto, to a classical singer mother and an architect father. Her father is White Canadian and her mother is Jamaican. Reuben is the half-sister of Denis Simpson, an actor and children's television host who died in 2010. 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 a model and TV ad appearances. Reuben is known for her role on the American television series ER as Jeanie Boulet, an HIV-positive physician assistant on the hospital's staff. She was a guest star throughout Season 1 and was elevated to full-time cast member at the beginning of Season 2. She continued that role until early Season 6, when she left the show. In 2008, Reuben returned to ER for one episode during its 14th season. She has stated that this role led to her HIV/AIDS activism. Reuben again held a major role in a television series, when she starred as FBI agent Brooke Haslett in 1-800-Missing (2003–2004).