Janina Gavankar

Birthday: 1980-11-29
Birthplace: Joliet, Illinois, USA
Gender: Female
Owned By: Unowned

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.

Credits

	Year	Title	Character
		Cortex	Sama
	2026-09-18	Best of the Best
	2024-08-07	Borderlands	Knoxx
	2021-12-03	Encounter	Piya
	2020-03-05	The Way Back	Angela
	2019-08-08	Stucco	J
	2018-07-20	Blindspotting	Val
	2018-03-02	The Vanishing of Sidney Hall	Gina
	2018-02-01	The White Orchid	Tina
	2017-12-01	This Is Christmas
	2017-09-02	Norman Pinski Come Home	Reporter
	2016-03-17	Pee-wee's Big Holiday	Party Guest
	2015-05-20	The History of Us	Sabrina
	2014-06-20	Think Like a Man Too	Vanessa Martinez
	2014-04-06	FUTURESTATES: Code Academy	Madame Counselor
	2013-07-19	Who's Afraid of Vagina Wolf?	Katia
	2013-07-18	The Final Moments of Karl Brant	Detective Hostetler
	2013-03-05	Satellite of Love	Michelle
	2011-08-15	The Custom Mary	Ms. Rime
	2010-09-17	Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey	Nikki (voice)
	2008-01-01	Shattered!	Maria
	2005-08-30	Cup of My Blood	Iona
	2004-01-20	Barbershop 2: Back in Business	Field Reporter
	2003-09-30	Dark	Kaya
	2002-04-01	Barbershop	Fine Woman