Janina Gavankar
Actor
- Born
- November 29, 1980 (age 45) · Joliet, Illinois, USA
Janina Zione Gavankar (born November 29, 1980) is an American actress and musician of Indian and Dutch descent. 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
Borderlands
August 7, 2024
The Way Back
March 5, 2020
Blindspotting
July 20, 2018
Think Like a Man Too
June 20, 2014
Barbershop
April 1, 2002
Encounter
December 3, 2021
Barbershop 2: Back in Business
January 20, 2004
The Vanishing of Sidney Hall
March 2, 2018
Pee-wee's Big Holiday
March 17, 2016
Best of the Best
September 18, 2026
The White Orchid
February 1, 2018
Stucco
August 8, 2019
Acting26
- 2026Best of the Best as Rekha
- 2024Borderlands as Knoxx
- 2021Encounter as Piya
- 2020The Way Back as Angela
- 2019Stucco as J
- 2018Straight from the Town: Making Blindspotting as Self
- 2018Blindspotting as Val
- 2018The Vanishing of Sidney Hall as Gina
- 2018The White Orchid as Tina
- 2017This Is Christmas