1. Janina Zione Gavankar is an American actress and musician.
21 Facts About Janina Gavankar
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Janina Gavankar is trained as a pianist, vocalist, and orchestral percussionist, and she majored in theatre at the University of Illinois Chicago.
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Janina Gavankar's roles include Eva "Papi" Torres on Showtime's The L Word, Shiva on The League, Leigh Turner on The Gates, Luna Garza on HBO's True Blood, McKenna Hall on The CW's Arrow, and Diana Thomas on FOX's Sleepy Hollow.
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In 2008, Janina Gavankar appeared in the TV series Stargate Atlantis, Grey's Anatomy, NCIS, My Boys, and Factory.
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Janina Gavankar landed another lead role in The Gates, since cancelled, on ABC.
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Janina Gavankar appears on CW's Arrow as a vice squad police officer and brief girlfriend to Oliver Queen.
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In 2011, Janina Gavankar became a series regular in HBO's True Blood as a public school teacher and shapeshifter, Luna Garza, who gets romantically involved with one of the main characters of the series.
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Janina Gavankar guest starred in the third season of Husbands.
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Janina Gavankar played Detective Meredith Bose on The Mysteries of Laura from 2014 to 2016.
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Janina Gavankar starred as Iden Versio, the main character in the campaign mode of the 2017 Electronic Arts video game, Star Wars Battlefront II.
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In late 2019, Janina Gavankar joined Apple TV's The Morning Show, as Alison Namazi, co-anchor of the pop culture segment of the titular show.
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In 2023 Janina Gavankar starred in video game Alan Wake 2 as Kiran Estevez, an agent of the Federal Bureau of Control, a role she reprised in The Lake House DLC, released in October 2024.
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Janina Gavankar returned to music with a cover of Kanye West's "Love Lockdown".
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Janina Gavankar collaborated on a project for a song called "Tell Me What" in India with Pratichee Mohapatra of Viva, Deep, and Navraaz.
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Janina Gavankar has had songs licensed to films and television and has sung and played marimba on film scores.
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Janina Gavankar was featured in Russian artist Ella Leya's music video for "Wish I Could", in the music video by San Francisco-based band Recliner for their single "Float Away", as well as the music video for Manu Narayan's band Darunam.
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On May 20,2015, Janina Gavankar performed a percussion duet at Carnegie Hall with Questlove for the Best Buddies charity benefit.
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Janina Gavankar was the first actress to use Twitter, signing up on Richard Branson's computer on Necker Island in 2006.
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Janina Gavankar was the personification of Microsoft's interactive search engine Ms.
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In 2008, Janina Gavankar was nominated for an Asian Excellence Award.
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In 2012, Janina Gavankar received the Gravity Summit Award for Excellence in Social Media.