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Janina Gavankar
Acting
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
Grey's Anatomy
2005
NCIS
2003
Arrow
2012
The Vampire Diaries
2009
Big Sky
2020
Stargate Atlantis
2004
True Blood
2008
Sleepy Hollow
2013
The Morning Show
2019
The League
2009
The L Word
2004
Never Have I Ever
2020
Space Force
2020
The Exes
2011
The Mysteries of Laura
2014
The Gates
2010
Borderlands
2024
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi
2022
The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window
2022
The Way Back
2020
Barbershop
2002
Think Like a Man Too
2014
Barbershop 2: Back in Business
2004
The Vanishing of Sidney Hall
2018
Blindspotting
2018
Encounter
2021
Pee-wee's Big Holiday
2016
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