Janina Gavankar
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.
As actor 54
The Vampire Diaries
2009
NCIS
2003
Grey's Anatomy
2005
Arrow
2012
Stargate Atlantis
2004
Will Trent
2023
True Blood
2008
Big Sky
2020
The Morning Show
2019
Sleepy Hollow
2013
Girlfriends
2000
Never Have I Ever
2020
Strong Medicine
2000
The Mysteries of Laura
2014
The League
2009
The L Word
2004
The Exes
2011
The Mighty Ones
2020
Borderlands
2024
Space Force
2020
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi
2022
The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window
2022
Traffic Light
2011
The Way Back
2020
The Gates
2010
Garfunkel and Oates
2014
Three Rivers
2009
Barbershop
2002
Encounter
2021
Think Like a Man Too
2014
The Vanishing of Sidney Hall
2018
Barbershop 2: Back in Business
2004
Blindspotting
2018
Heroes' Feast
2023
Relics and Rarities
2019
Pee-wee's Big Holiday
2016
Best of the Best
2026
Shattered!
2008
The History of Us
2015
Nikki & Nora: The N&N Files
2014
The White Orchid
2018
Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey
2010
Stucco
2019
Dark
2003
This Is Christmas
2017
Cup of My Blood
2005
Who's Afraid of Vagina Wolf?
2013
The Final Moments of Karl Brant
2013
Satellite of Love
2013
Norman Pinski Come Home
2017
FUTURESTATES: Code Academy
2014
The Custom Mary
2011
Cortex
Straight from the Town: Making Blindspotting
2018