
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.
Acting (22 movies)

Norman Pinski Come Home
2017

Encounter
2021

Cup of My Blood
2005

Satellite of Love
2013

Who's Afraid of Vagina Wolf?
2013

The Final Moments of Karl Brant
2013

Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey
2010

Pee-wee's Big Holiday
2016

FUTURESTATES: Code Academy
2014

Think Like a Man Too
2014

The Vanishing of Sidney Hall
2018

Shattered!
2008

The White Orchid
2018

Blindspotting
2018

The Way Back
2020

This Is Christmas
2017

Dark
2003

Stucco
2019

The Custom Mary
2011

Barbershop 2: Back in Business
2004

Barbershop
2002

Borderlands
2024