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