Janina Gavankar

Born: 1980-11-29

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.


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True Blood

as Luna
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Sleepy Hollow

as Diana Thomas
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Arrow

as Detective McKenna Hall
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NCIS

as Angela Lopez
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Stargate Atlantis

as Sgt. 'Dusty' Mehra
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The Mighty Ones

as Kensington (voice)
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as Momn-E (voice)
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The Mysteries of Laura

as Meredith Bose
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as Hannah Howard
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Strong Medicine

as uncredited
First aired: 2000-07-23

The lives of staff in the womens' health clinic of a fictitious hospital in Philadelphia.

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Girlfriends

as uncredited
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The League

as Shiva
First aired: 2009-10-29

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as Dr. Sharma
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Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi

as Pav-ti (voice)
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The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window

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The Gates

as Leigh Turner
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as Kerry
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Three Rivers

as uncredited
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as Mumee
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