
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.
Filmography36 titles

The Vampire Diaries

Grey's Anatomy

Never Have I Ever

Stargate Atlantis

Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi

The Morning Show

The L Word

True Blood

NCIS

Sleepy Hollow

Strong Medicine

The Mighty Ones

Will Trent

Blindspotting

The League

Girlfriends

Big Sky

The Mysteries of Laura

Three Rivers

Garfunkel and Oates

Arrow

Traffic Light

The Vanishing of Sidney Hall

The Way Back

The Exes

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

Think Like a Man Too

Barbershop

Encounter

The Gates

Pee-wee's Big Holiday

Barbershop 2: Back in Business

This Is Christmas

The White Orchid

Borderlands

Cup of My Blood