Gloria Reuben

Gloria Elizabeth Reuben is a CanadianAmerican singer and actress of film and television and producer, known for her role as Jeanie Boulet on the medical drama ER and Marina Peralta on Falling Skies. In film, she is known for portraying Elizabeth Keckley in Lincoln.

Reuben was born in Toronto, to Pearl Avis , a classical singer, and Cyril George Reuben, an architect. Her parents were both Jamaicanborn her father, who was Caucasian, was from a Sephardi Jewish family, and her mother was AfroJamaican. Her father died when she was young.

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