# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/janina-gavankar
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:58:10.305Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/janina-gavankar"
name: "Janina Gavankar"
slug: "janina-gavankar"
description: "Janina Zione Gavankar is an American actress and musician. She is trained as a pianist, vocalist, and orchestral percussionist and majored in theatre at the University of Illinois Chicago. Her 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 as well as Qetsiyah/Tessa in The CW's \nThe Vampire Diaries. Gavankar has also played the role of Ms. Dewey, a search engine and virtual assistant for Microsoft."
tagline: "American actress (born 1980)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Janina_Gavankar%2C_Star_Wars_The_Last_Jedi_premiere%2C_Dec_2017_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1980-11-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.468678901865615
  historical:           23.01208266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     90
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/janina"
    handle:    "janina"
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    handle:    "janina"
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    handle:    "JaninaGavankar"
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    handle:    "janina"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump