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Janina Gavankar

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Janina Gavankar, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Joliet, Illinois, USA, 1980-11-29

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	2002	Barbershop	Fine Woman	64
2	2003	Dark	Kaya	50
3	2004	Barbershop 2: Back in Business	Field Reporter	60
4	2005	Cup of My Blood	Iona	47
5	2008	Shattered!	Maria	20
6	2010	Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey	Nikki (voice)	66
7	2011	The Custom Mary	Ms. Rime	20
8	2013	Satellite of Love	Michelle	46
9	2013	The Final Moments of Karl Brant	Detective Hostetler	82
10	2013	Who's Afraid of Vagina Wolf?	Katia	52
11	2014	FUTURESTATES: Code Academy	Madame Counselor	50
12	2014	Think Like a Man Too	Vanessa Martinez	64
13	2015	The History of Us		0
14	2016	Pee-wee's Big Holiday	Party Guest	61
15	2017	Norman Pinski Come Home	Reporter	0
16	2017	This Is Christmas		60
17	2018	The White Orchid	Tina	56
18	2018	Blindspotting	Val	73
19	2018	Straight from the Town: Making Blindspotting	Self	0
20	2019	Stucco	J	53
21	2021	Encounter	Piya	63
22		Cortex	Sama	0
23	2018	The Vanishing of Sidney Hall	Gina	67
24	2020	The Way Back	Angela	67
25	2024	Borderlands	Knoxx	57

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	2000	Strong Medicine	Nurse Juni	71
2	2000	Girlfriends		72
3	2003	NCIS	Angela Lopez	76
4	2004	The L Word	Eva "Papi" Torres	76
5	2004	Stargate Atlantis	Sgt. 'Dusty' Mehra	80
6	2005	Grey's Anatomy	Intern Lisa	82
7	2008	True Blood	Luna	76
8	2009	Three Rivers		71
9	2009	The League	Shiva	74
10	2010	The Gates	Leigh Turner	65
11	2011	The Exes	Kerry	65
12	2012	Arrow	Detective McKenna Hall	68
13	2013	Sleepy Hollow	Diana Thomas	74
14	2014	The Mysteries of Laura	Meredith Bose	71
15		Echo		0
16	2014	Garfunkel and Oates	Dr. Sharma	69
17	2019	Relics and Rarities	Mumee	77
18	2019	The Morning Show	Alison Namazi	78
19	2020	Never Have I Ever	Akshara	81
20	2020	Space Force	Hannah Howard	65
21	2020	The Mighty Ones	Kensington (voice)	74
22	2020	The Mighty Ones	Momn-E (voice)	74
23	2020	Big Sky	Reenu 'Ren' Bhullar	72
24	2022	The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window	Meredith	66
25	2022	Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi	Pav-ti (voice)	81
26	2023	Heroes' Feast	Self	0