
Janina Gavankar
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 Bl…
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Filmography
Acting (56)
Movies (26)
Borderlands
2024as Knoxx
Encounter
2021as Piya
The Way Back
2020as Angela
Stucco
2019as J
Straight from the Town: Making Blindspotting
2018as Self
The Vanishing of Sidney Hall
2018as Gina
The White Orchid
2018as Tina
Blindspotting
2018as Val
This Is Christmas
2017
Norman Pinski Come Home
2017as Reporter
Pee-wee's Big Holiday
2016as Party Guest
The History of Us
2015as Sabrina
Think Like a Man Too
2014as Vanessa Martinez
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2014as Madame Counselor
Who's Afraid of Vagina Wolf?
2013as Katia
Satellite of Love
2013as Michelle
The Final Moments of Karl Brant
2013as Detective Hostetler
The Custom Mary
2011as Ms. Rime
Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey
2010as Nikki (voice)
Shattered!
2008as Maria
Cup of My Blood
2005as Iona
Barbershop 2: Back in Business
2004as Field Reporter
Dark
2003as Kaya
Barbershop
2002as Fine Woman
Best of the Best
Cortex
as Sama
Television (30)
Will Trent
2023as Casey
Heroes' Feast
2023as Self
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi
2022as Pav-ti (voice)
The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window
2022as Meredith
Big Sky
2020as Reenu 'Ren' Bhullar
Never Have I Ever
2020as Akshara
Space Force
2020as Hannah Howard
The Mighty Ones
2020as Kensington (voice)
The Morning Show
2019as Alison Namazi
Relics and Rarities
2019as Mumee
The Mysteries of Laura
2014as Meredith Bose
Garfunkel and Oates
2014as Dr. Sharma
Nikki & Nora: The N&N Files
2014as Lea Sadina
Sleepy Hollow
2013as Diana Thomas
Arrow
2012as Detective McKenna Hall
The Exes
2011as Kerry
The Gates
2010as Leigh Turner
The Vampire Diaries
2009as Tessa
The League
2009as Shiva
Dollhouse
2009as Lynn
Three Rivers
2009
True Blood
2008as Luna
True Blood
2008as Luna
Grey's Anatomy
2005as Intern Lisa
Stargate Atlantis
2004as Sgt. 'Dusty' Mehra
The L Word
2004as Eva "Papi" Torres
The L Word
2004as Eva "Papi" Torres
NCIS
2003as Angela Lopez
Girlfriends
2000
Strong Medicine
2000as Nurse Juni
Crew (3)
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