Janina Gavankar
Born 1980-11-29 in Joliet, Illinois, USA
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 and TV shows
Grey's Anatomy
2005
NCIS
2003
The Vampire Diaries
2009
Arrow
2012
Stargate Atlantis
2004
True Blood
2008
Will Trent
2023
Strong Medicine
2000
The Morning Show
2019
Girlfriends
2000
Sleepy Hollow
2013
Never Have I Ever
2020
The L Word
2004
Big Sky
2020
The League
2009
Borderlands
2024
Space Force
2020
The Mysteries of Laura
2014
The Exes
2011
The Mighty Ones
2020
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi
2022
The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window
2022
Barbershop
2002
The Way Back
2020
Garfunkel and Oates
2014
Three Rivers
2009
The Gates
2010
Think Like a Man Too
2014
Barbershop 2: Back in Business
2004
The Vanishing of Sidney Hall
2018