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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
November 29, 1980
Place of Birth
Joliet, Illinois, USA
Also Known As
- جانینا گاوانکار
- Janina Zione Gavankar
Janina Gavankar
1.3 Popularity
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.
Known For
5.6
Knoxx
Borderlands
2024
0.0
Self
Heroes' Feast
2023
8.0
Pav-ti (voice)
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi
2022
6.6
Meredith
The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window
2022
6.3
Piya
Encounter
2021
7.3
Reenu 'Ren' Bhullar
Big Sky
2020
7.4
Kensington (voice)
The Mighty Ones
2020
7.4
Momn-E (voice)
The Mighty Ones
2020
6.5
Hannah Howard
Space Force
2020
8.1
Akshara
Never Have I Ever
2020
Credits
Borderlands
as Knoxx
2024
5.6
Heroes' Feast
as Self
2023
0.0
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi
as Pav-ti (voice)
2022
8.0
The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window
as Meredith
2022
6.6
Encounter
as Piya
2021
6.3
Big Sky
as Reenu 'Ren' Bhullar
2020
7.3
The Mighty Ones
as Kensington (voice)
2020
7.4
The Mighty Ones
as Momn-E (voice)
2020
7.4
Space Force
as Hannah Howard
2020
6.5
Never Have I Ever
as Akshara
2020
8.1
The Way Back
as Angela
2020
6.6
The Morning Show
as Alison Namazi
2019
7.7
Stucco
as J
2019
5.2
Relics and Rarities
as Mumee
2019
7.7
🎬
Straight from the Town: Making Blindspotting
as Self
2018
0.0
Blindspotting
as Val
2018
7.3
The Vanishing of Sidney Hall
as Gina
2018
6.7
The White Orchid
as Tina
2018
5.5
This Is Christmas
2017
6.0
Norman Pinski Come Home
as Reporter
2017
0.0
Pee-wee's Big Holiday
as Party Guest
2016
6.1
🎬
The History of Us
as Sabrina
2015
0.0
The Mysteries of Laura
as Meredith Bose
2014
7.2
Garfunkel and Oates
as Dr. Sharma
2014
6.9
Think Like a Man Too
as Vanessa Martinez
2014
6.4
FUTURESTATES: Code Academy
as Madame Counselor
2014
5.0
Nikki & Nora: The N&N Files
as Lea Sadina
2014
0.0
Sleepy Hollow
as Diana Thomas
2013
7.4
Who's Afraid of Vagina Wolf?
as Katia
2013
4.9
The Final Moments of Karl Brant
as Detective Hostetler
2013
7.9
Satellite of Love
as Michelle
2013
4.2
Arrow
as Detective McKenna Hall
2012
6.8
The Exes
as Kerry
2011
6.5
The Custom Mary
as Ms. Rime
2011
2.0
Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey
as Nikki (voice)
2010
6.3
The Gates
as Leigh Turner
2010
6.3
The League
as Shiva
2009
7.3
Three Rivers
2009
7.0
True Blood
as Luna
2008
7.6
Shattered!
as Maria
2008
2.0
Cup of My Blood
as Iona
2005
4.5
Grey's Anatomy
as Intern Lisa
2005
8.2
Stargate Atlantis
as Sgt. 'Dusty' Mehra
2004
8.0
Barbershop 2: Back in Business
as Field Reporter
2004
6.0
The L Word
as Eva "Papi" Torres
2004
7.6
Dark
as Kaya
2003
5.0
NCIS
as Angela Lopez
2003
7.6
Barbershop
as Fine Woman
2002
6.4
Girlfriends
2000
7.3
Strong Medicine
as Nurse Juni
2000
7.3
🎬
Cortex
as Sama
N/A
0.0
🎬
Best of the Best
N/A
0.0