Janina Gavankar

Born: 1980-11-29, Joliet, Illinois, USA

Biography

Janina Zione Gavankar (born November 29, 1980) is an American actress and musician. Gavankar is trained as a pianist, vocalist, and orchestral percussionist. She majored in Theatre Performance at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Gavankar's roles include a police officer on The Gates; Ms. Dewey, the personification of a Microsoft branded search engine who commented on the user's searches; Shiva, the namesake of the sought-after trophy on The League; shapeshifter Luna Garza on HBO's True Blood; McKenna Hall on The CW's Arrow; and Meredith Bose on NBC's The Mysteries of Laura. She also played Diana Thomas on Fox's supernatural drama Sleepy Hollow.

Filmography

• The Vampire Diaries (2009)
• Grey's Anatomy (2005)
• Stargate Atlantis (2004)
• Will Trent (2023)
• The Morning Show (2019)
• Girlfriends (2000)
• Strong Medicine (2000)
• Never Have I Ever (2020)
• The League (2009)
• The L Word (2004)
• The Mighty Ones (2020)
• The Mysteries of Laura (2014)
• Space Force (2020)
• The Exes (2011)
• Borderlands (2024)
• Traffic Light (2011)
• Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi (2022)
• The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window (2022)
• Barbershop (2002)
• The Vanishing of Sidney Hall (2018)
• Encounter (2021)
• Think Like a Man Too (2014)
• Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004)
• Relics and Rarities (2019)
• Blindspotting (2018)
• Pee-wee's Big Holiday (2016)
• Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey (2010)
• Shattered! (2008)
• Stucco (2019)
• Stucco (2019)