
Acting
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.

Grey's Anatomy
2005

NCIS
2003

The Vampire Diaries
2009

Arrow
2012

Stargate Atlantis
2004

True Blood
2008

Will Trent
2023

Strong Medicine
2000

The Morning Show
2019

Big Sky
2020

Never Have I Ever
2020

Sleepy Hollow
2013

Girlfriends
2000

The League
2009

The L Word
2004

The Mighty Ones
2020

The Mysteries of Laura
2014

The Exes
2011

Space Force
2020

Borderlands
2024

The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window
2022

Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi
2022

Think Like a Man Too
2014

Garfunkel and Oates
2014

The Way Back
2020

Three Rivers
2009

Traffic Light
2011

The Gates
2010

Barbershop
2002

Barbershop 2: Back in Business
2004

Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey
2010

The Vanishing of Sidney Hall
2018

Encounter
2021

Pee-wee's Big Holiday
2016

Heroes' Feast
2023

Blindspotting
2018