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