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 and later with Johnny Depp in Nick of Time and several TV movies.



Gloria appears in a new Tina Turner music video "When The Heartache Is Over". Chosen by People (USA) magazine as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world [1996] Played the wife of actor/director/producer Jimmy Bridges in a "Luvs Diapers" commercial in 1989. Her Jamaican mother was a gospel singer. Crowned "Miss Black Ontario" in 1986.