Few artists can literally say that "they've done it all", but actress/singer Gloria Reuben is making a concerted bid for that elusive distinction. Over the past decade, Reuben has amassed impressive credentials as a regular fixture on network television, starred in numerous films, performed in a highly-touted off-Broadway production, toured with one of pop music's most celebrated diva's, and now she's adding recording artist to her cachet with the release of her debut solo record, "Just For You".

Most television vision viewers will remember Reuben as the attractive health care professional Jeanie Boulet who traumatically battled HIV/Aids in the NBC-TV hit series, ER,a role that garnered her multiple Emmy nominations and a Golden Globe nomination in a five-year run from 1994-99. She debuted in film, when she starred opposite Jean Claude Van Damme in "Time Cop" and Johnny Depp in John Badham's "Nick Of Time". And in between a slew of other television projects, The Young Riders, The Round Table, China Beach and, in 1993 three episodes of the Baltimiore-based "Homicide: Life on the Street", she later starred in the critically acclaimed off-Broadway production of Eve Ensler's "The Vagina Monologues". Then in 2000, Reuben extended her burgeoning career into contemporary music, by singing back up for four months on the North American leg of Tina Turner's "24/7"concert tour.

Last year alone, the Canadian born actress/singer shuttled between co-starring in the Lions Gate/Life Time Television dramatic series, 1-800-MISSING (as a no-nonsense FBI agent), and atorrid 16-hour-a-day shooting schedule in Toronto, to record her CD in New York on every spare weekend she could muster. In addition, Reuben tacked on an Associate Producer credit on the show, and performed the series theme song, "This Dream Is Real", that was co-written (the lyrics) with veteran songwriter Andy Chase. The track also appears on her new CD.

While Reuben's acting career has always been on the fast track, her love for music has only sporadically surfaced. Touring with Tina Turner ignited a spark though, so she started taking guitar lessons, and decided to demo a few songs. "There's always been a desire within me to make a record about the variations and mysteries of love," says Reuben.

So, during a time when the music industry has been sending out mixed messages to aspiring new artist's, Reuben opted instead to take the plunge, anchored both feet, and decided to finance her own record. She enlisted Grammy-Award winning songwriter/producer Barry Eastmond (Anita Baker, Britney Spears, Whitney Houston, to name a few) to produce the CD's nine tracks.

Reuben collaborated with Eastmond on two original songs, including the title track, and "Walk Away". The CD also includes memorable covers of some of Reuben's personal favorites, such as Bonnie Raitt's tear-jerker, "I Can't Make You Love Me", Sheryl Crow's wrenching "Difficult Kind", Chaka Khan's sexy, "Sweet Thing", and Ella Fitzgerald's timeless, "Angel Eyes".

"Making the record is a dream come," admitted Reuben. "It was pretty scary at first, but I was very passionate about the material, and working with Barry and a cast of great musicians helped me gain more confidence with each song."

Reuben has never lacked motivation, and her thirst and hunger for the arts and performing started when she was still in her single digits. Her mother, an accomplished singer, helped nurture and develop her broad base of talents. Before her teens, Reuben was playing piano, studying music technique and theory, and later studied ballet and jazz at the Canadian Royal Conservatory. She also managed to squeeze in a brief fling as a model, before relocating to Los Angeles. Upon arriving in Hollywood, she landed a national television commercial, and the residuals kept her afloat, allowing her to quit her job and commit to acting full time.

And since then, there has been no turning back. Some of her other television credits include, the CBS series "The Agency", and a list of major television movies such as, Showtime's "Feast Of All Saints", the CBS mini-series, "Innocent Blood: The True Story of the Salem Witch Trials", (opposite Shirley MacLaine), HBO's "Indiscreet", (with Luke Perry), "Soul Survivor", (with Billy Zane) "Percy and Thunder", (with James Earl Jones) for TNT, and CBS-TV's "Deep In My Heart", (with Ann Bancroft). In 1996, while on hiatus from "ER", she even managed to take creative writing classes at Oxford University.

Reuben's roller coaster ride from one art form to another shows no sign of slowing down. More recently, she performed the Canadian National Anthem at the 2003 NBA All-Star game, starred in director Greg Lombardo's independent film, "Macbeth in Manhattan" and Michael Almereyda's film, "Happy Here And Now", (opposite Ally Sheedy and David Arquette), and joined Michael Feinstein for his holiday gala performance to close out 2002.

"Just For You" will no doubt create new demands and add to Reuben's already jammed packed schedule, but Reuben says, "Music has always been my first love, and I feel very lucky that I'm finally able to express my artistry. I'm eager to get out there and perform, so that people can see another side of me."

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