Actor Janina Gavankar

Janina Gavankar

1980 (44 года)
Janina Zione Gavankar (born November 29, 1980) is an American actress and musician. She is skilled in piano, vocals, and orchestral percussion and studied theatre at the University of Illinois Chicago. Her notable 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 Arrow, and Diana Thomas on FOX's Sleepy Hollow. She also portrayed "Ms. Dewey", a virtual assistant for Microsoft.

Gavankar was born in Joliet, Illinois. Her father, Ganesh "Peter" Gavankar, is an engineer from Mumbai who came to the U.S. for graduate studies, and her mother, Shan Demohra "Mohra" Gavankar, is of Indian and Dutch descent from Pune.