Janina Gavankar

Biography

Janina Zione Gavankar is an American actress and musician. Gavankar is also trained as a pianist, vocalist, and orchestral percussionist. She majored in Theatre Performance at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Gavankar’s roles include Papi, a lesbian lothario in The L Word; Leigh Turner, a cop with a big secret on The Gates; Ms. Dewey, the personification of a Microsoft branded search engine who comments about 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.

• Born: November 29, 1980
• Age: 42 years old

• Gender Orientation:
  Cisgender Woman
• Sexual Orientation:
  Unknown

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Note: Character roles may exceed the number of characters played, if the character was on multiple TV shows.