
Janina Gavankar
Born November 29, 1980 · Joliet, Illinois, USA
Janina Zione Gavankar (born November 29, 1980) is an American actress and musician of Indian and Dutch descent. 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.
Notable Appearances
Movies

Borderlands

Best of the Best

Barbershop

Think Like a Man Too

Blindspotting

The Way Back

Barbershop 2: Back in Business

The Vanishing of Sidney Hall

Pee-wee's Big Holiday

Encounter

Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey

Who's Afraid of Vagina Wolf?

Cup of My Blood

Shattered!

The White Orchid

Norman Pinski Come Home

Stucco

The Final Moments of Karl Brant

Dark

FUTURESTATES: Code Academy

Satellite of Love

This Is Christmas

The Custom Mary
TV Shows

Grey's Anatomy

NCIS

Arrow

Stargate Atlantis

Will Trent

True Blood

Strong Medicine

Sleepy Hollow

The League

The L Word

The Morning Show

Big Sky

Never Have I Ever

The Mighty Ones

The Exes

The Mysteries of Laura

Space Force

Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi

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

Three Rivers

The Gates

Traffic Light








