Birthday
1980/11/29 (44 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Joliet, Illinois, USA
Also know as
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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...Read more
(2017) Norman Pinski Come Home
as Reporter
(2021) Encounter
as Piya
(2005) Cup of My Blood
as Iona
(2013) Satellite of Love
as Michelle
(2013) Who's Afraid of Vagina Wolf?
as Katia
(2013) The Final Moments of Karl Brant
as Detective Hostetler
(2010) Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey
as Nikki (voice)
Cortex
as Sama
(2016) Pee-wee's Big Holiday
as Party Guest
(2014) FUTURESTATES: Code Academy
as Madame Counselor
(2014) Think Like a Man Too
as Vanessa Martinez
(2018) The Vanishing of Sidney Hall
as Gina
(2008) Shattered!
as Maria
(2018) The White Orchid
as Tina
(2018) Blindspotting
as Val
(2020) The Way Back
as Angela
(2017) This Is Christmas
as ---
(2003) Dark
as Kaya
(2019) Stucco
as J
(2011) The Custom Mary
as Ms. Rime
(2018) Straight from the Town: Making Blindspotting
as Self
(2004) Barbershop 2: Back in Business
as Field Reporter
(2002) Barbershop
as Fine Woman
(2024) Borderlands
as Knoxx
(2004) Stargate Atlantis
as Sgt. 'Dusty' Mehra
(2000) Girlfriends
as ---
(2003) NCIS
as Angela Lopez
(2000) Strong Medicine
as Nurse Juni
(2009) Three Rivers
as ---
(2009) The League
as Shiva
(2010) The Gates
as Leigh Turner
(2014) The Mysteries of Laura
as Meredith Bose
(2008) True Blood
as Luna
(2012) Arrow
as Detective McKenna Hall
Echo
as ---
(2020) Never Have I Ever
as Akshara
(2004) The L Word
as Eva "Papi" Torres
(2013) Sleepy Hollow
as Diana Thomas
(2020) The Mighty Ones
as Kensington (voice)
(2022) The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window
as Meredith
(2020) Big Sky
as Reenu 'Ren' Bhullar
(2023) Heroes' Feast
as Self
(2020) The Mighty Ones
as Momn-E (voice)
(2022) Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi
as Pav-ti (voice)
(2005) Grey's Anatomy
as Intern Lisa
(2019) The Morning Show
as Alison Namazi
(2019) Relics and Rarities
as Mumee
(2020) Space Force
as Hannah Howard
(2011) The Exes
as Kerry
(2014) Garfunkel and Oates
as Dr. Sharma