
Janina Gavankar
Acting
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

Grey's Anatomy
2005 · tv

NCIS
2003 · tv

The Vampire Diaries
2009 · tv

Arrow
2012 · tv

Stargate Atlantis
2004 · tv

Will Trent
2023 · tv

True Blood
2008 · tv

Strong Medicine
2000 · tv

The L Word
2004 · tv

Girlfriends
2000 · tv

The Morning Show
2019 · tv

Sleepy Hollow
2013 · tv

Never Have I Ever
2020 · tv

The League
2009 · tv

Space Force
2020 · tv

Big Sky
2020 · tv

The Mysteries of Laura
2014 · tv

The Mighty Ones
2020 · tv

The Exes
2011 · tv

The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window
2022 · tv

Borderlands
2024 · movie

Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi
2022 · tv

The Gates
2010 · tv

Three Rivers
2009 · tv

The Vanishing of Sidney Hall
2018 · movie

Barbershop
2002 · movie

The Way Back
2020 · movie

Garfunkel and Oates
2014 · tv

Think Like a Man Too
2014 · movie

Blindspotting
2018 · movie