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Janina Gavankar

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Janina Gavankar

Born Nov 29, 1980 · 45 years54 titles 26 movies · 28 TV
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Biography

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.

Also known as

جانینا گاوانکار · Janina Zione Gavankar

Born

Nov 29, 1980

Joliet, Illinois, USA

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Roles across career

Titles counted once; a person can act and direct on the same film (roles merged).

54

Acting credits

1

Directing

1

Writing

1

Other crew

Most critically rated

Highest TMDB score (min 100 votes)

Most commercially successful

Highest TMDB vote count (attention / reach proxy; not box office)

Career timeline

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2000 2 title(s)

2002 1 title(s)

2003 2 title(s)

2004 3 title(s)

2005 2 title(s)

2008 2 title(s)

2009 3 title(s)

2010 2 title(s)

2011 3 title(s)

2012 1 title(s)

2013 4 title(s)

2014 5 title(s)

2015 1 title(s)

2016 1 title(s)

2017 2 title(s)

2018 4 title(s)

2019 3 title(s)

2020 5 title(s)

2021 1 title(s)

2022 2 title(s)

2023 2 title(s)

2024 1 title(s)

2026 1 title(s)

Undated 1 title(s)