Gloria reuben Biography, Age, Height, Weight, Husband

Gloria reuben Biography (Age, Height, Weight, Husband, Family, Career & More)

Actress, producer, and singer Gloria Elizabeth Reuben is of Canadian and American descent. She is well-known for both her portrayal of Elizabeth Keckley in the 2012 Steven Spielberg film Lincoln and her work as Jeanie Boulet on the medical drama ER (1995–1998, 2008), for which she received two Emmy Award nominations.

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Gloria Reuben Early Life

Gloria Reuben was born in Toronto, Ontario, to engineers Cyril George Reuben and Pearl Avis Mills, a classical singer. Both of her parents were born in Jamaica. Her mother is primarily of African descent, while her father was mostly Jewish (with Ashkenazi and Sephardi roots), though he also had some African ancestry.

When she was young, her father passed away. Finding Your Roots, the genealogy television programme hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr., featured a segment on Reuben.

Reuben was one of six kids who grew up. Denis Simpson, her elder half-brother, was an actor and host of children’s television. He passed away in 2010. David, her little brother, passed away in 1988.

In her 2019 memoir My Brothers’ Keeper, Reuben discusses her relationship with and experience with her brothers’ deaths.

Reuben started practising the piano as a young boy and then pursued studies in ballet, jazz, music theory, and technique at the Royal Conservatory of Music.

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Gloria Reuben Career

Reuben has also appeared in movies like Timecop (1994), Nick of Time (1995), Admission (2013), and Reasonable Doubt (2014). She portrayed Krista Gordon on Mr. Robot from 2015 to 2019 and also appeared occasionally in City on a Hill (since 2019). She also appeared in the 2018–2019 season of Cloak & Dagger as Adina Johnson.

Reuben worked briefly as a model and in television commercials before starting her acting career. Reuben first gained notoriety as Jeanie Boulet, an HIV-positive medical assistant employed by the hospital, in the American television programme ER. She appeared as a guest star for the whole of the first season before being upgraded to a regular cast member at the start of the second.

She stayed in that position until the beginning of the sixth season. During the fourteenth season of ER in 2008, Reuben made an appearance in one episode. She has said that this position inspired her to become an HIV/AIDS activist. She was recognised as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World in 1996 by People magazine. In the television series 1-800-Missing, Reuben played the lead character of FBI agent Brooke Haslett (2003–2004) and in the TNT series Raising the Bar, she subsequently played Rosalind Whitman.

In the Drop Dead Diva season two finale, Reuben appeared as Professor Kathy Miller in a guest role. In season 12 of NBC’s Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Reuben reprised her role as U.S. Attorney Christine Danielson in a guest appearance. She made an appearance in the 2012 Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt CBS TV movie. Reuben portrayed Elizabeth Keckley in the historical drama film Lincoln in 2012, and critics praised how she portrayed the role. She had a brief appearance in the science fiction drama Falling Skies in 2013.

Reuben was welcomed to the cast of the USA Network series Mr. Robot in October 2014. Elliott, the erratic main character of the show, sees Dr. Krista Gordon, who is played by Reuben. The programme debuted in June 2015. She appeared in each of the show’s four seasons. Reuben’s character, who had previously had recurring roles, was promoted to a season regular for the fourth and final season. In the 2017 television series Cloak & Dagger, Reuben was given the role of Adina Johnson, Tyrone Johnson’s mother.

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Gloria Reuben Biography (Age, Height, Weight, Husband, Family, Career & More)