Janina Gavankar
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.
54 acting credits · 1 directing credit
Acting · 54
Grey's Anatomy
2005
NCIS
2003
Arrow
2012
The Vampire Diaries
2009
True Blood
2008
Stargate Atlantis
2004
Strong Medicine
2000
Will Trent
2023
Sleepy Hollow
2013
The L Word
2004
The Morning Show
2019
Girlfriends
2000
Never Have I Ever
2020
The League
2009
Big Sky
2020
Space Force
2020
The Mysteries of Laura
2014
The Mighty Ones
2020
The Exes
2011
Borderlands
2024
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi
2022
Three Rivers
2009
The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window
2022
The Gates
2010
Garfunkel and Oates
2014
Traffic Light
2011
Barbershop
2002
Blindspotting
2018
Relics and Rarities
2019
Heroes' Feast
2023
Barbershop 2: Back in Business
2004
The Way Back
2020
Encounter
2021
The Vanishing of Sidney Hall
2018
Think Like a Man Too
2014
Pee-wee's Big Holiday
2016
Stucco
2019
Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey
2010
The White Orchid
2018
Nikki & Nora: The N&N Files
2014
Cup of My Blood
2005
FUTURESTATES: Code Academy
2014
Best of the Best
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Shattered!
2008
The History of Us
2015
Who's Afraid of Vagina Wolf?
2013
The Custom Mary
2011
Norman Pinski Come Home
2017
Straight from the Town: Making Blindspotting
2018
The Final Moments of Karl Brant
2013
Satellite of Love
2013
Cortex
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This Is Christmas
2017
Dark
2003