Janina Gavankar

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Female

Birthday 1980-11-29 (44 years old)

Place of Birth Joliet, Illinois, USA

Janina Gavankar

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Janina Gavankar, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Actor

Cortex

as Sama

2024
Borderlands

as Knoxx

2023
2022
2021
Encounter

as Piya

2020
The Way Back

as Angela

2020
Big Sky

as Reenu 'Ren' Bhullar

2020
The Mighty Ones

as Kensington (voice)

2020
The Mighty Ones

as Momn-E (voice)

2020
Space Force

as Hannah Howard

2020
2019
Stucco

as J

2019
The Morning Show

as Alison Namazi

2019
2018
2018
2017
2016
Pee-wee's Big Holiday

as Party Guest

2014
Think Like a Man Too

as Vanessa Martinez

2014
FUTURESTATES: Code Academy

as Madame Counselor

2014
The Mysteries of Laura

as Meredith Bose

2014
Garfunkel and Oates

as Dr. Sharma

2013
The Final Moments of Karl Brant

as Detective Hostetler

2013
Satellite of Love

as Michelle

2013
Sleepy Hollow

as Diana Thomas

2012
Arrow

as Detective McKenna Hall

2011
The Custom Mary

as Ms. Rime

2011
The Exes

as Kerry

2010
The Gates

as Leigh Turner

2009
The League

as Shiva

2008
Shattered!

as Maria

2008
True Blood

as Luna

2005
2005
Grey's Anatomy

as Intern Lisa

2004
2004
Stargate Atlantis

as Sgt. 'Dusty' Mehra

2004
The L Word

as Eva "Papi" Torres

2003
Dark

as Kaya

2003
NCIS

as Angela Lopez

2002
Barbershop

as Fine Woman

2000
Strong Medicine

as Nurse Juni

Director

2019
Stucco

as Director

Producer

2019
Stucco

as Executive Producer

Writer

2019
Stucco

as Writer