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.
Movies
Borderlands
2024
Barbershop
2002
Encounter
2021
Barbershop 2: Back in Business
2004
The Custom Mary
2011
The Vanishing of Sidney Hall
2018
Think Like a Man Too
2014
Stucco
2019
The White Orchid
2018
The Way Back
2020
Shattered!
2008
Blindspotting
2018
Pee-wee's Big Holiday
2016
Cup of My Blood
2005
Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey
2010
Dark
2003
This Is Christmas
2017
Who's Afraid of Vagina Wolf?
2013
Norman Pinski Come Home
2017
FUTURESTATES: Code Academy
2014
TV Shows
Grey's Anatomy
2005
NCIS
2003
Arrow
2012
Stargate Atlantis
2004
True Blood
2008
The Morning Show
2019
Sleepy Hollow
2013
Strong Medicine
2000
Never Have I Ever
2020
Girlfriends
2000
The L Word
2004
Big Sky
2020
Space Force
2020
The League
2009
The Mysteries of Laura
2014
The Mighty Ones
2020
The Mighty Ones
2020
The Exes
2011
The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window
2022
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi
2022