Janina Gavankar

Known for ActingBorn 1980-11-29 (age 45)Joliet, Illinois, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Vampire Diaries

Never Have I Ever

Grey's Anatomy

Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi

Stargate Atlantis

The Final Moments of Karl Brant

The Morning Show

The L Word

True Blood

NCIS

The Mighty Ones

Sleepy Hollow

Blindspotting

Will Trent

Relics and Rarities

Strong Medicine

Big Sky

The League

Girlfriends

The Mysteries of Laura

Three Rivers

Garfunkel and Oates

Arrow

The Vanishing of Sidney Hall

Traffic Light

The Way Back

The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window

Space Force

The Exes

Think Like a Man Too

Encounter

Barbershop

Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey

The Gates

Pee-wee's Big Holiday

Straight from the Town: Making Blindspotting

This Is Christmas

Barbershop 2: Back in Business

The White Orchid

Dark

Borderlands

Stucco

FUTURESTATES: Code Academy

Who's Afraid of Vagina Wolf?

Cup of My Blood

Satellite of Love

The Custom Mary

Shattered!