StatsBirth Name: Janina Zione Gavankar Age: 32, born 29 November 1980 Born and residing in: United States Height: 5' 7" Ethnicity: Asian
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Janina Zione Gavankar (born November 29, 1980)is an American actress and musician. Gavankar is also trained as a pianist, vocalist, and orchestral percussionist. She majored in Theatre Performance at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Gavankar is known for her more notable roles as Papi, a promiscuous lesbian in The L Word, Leigh Turner, a cop with a big secret on "The Gates", Ms. Dewey, the personification of a Microsoft branded search engine who comments about the user's s
Janina Zione Gavankar (born November 29, 1980)is an American actress and musician. Gavankar is also trained as a pianist, vocalist, and orchestral percussionist. She majored in Theatre Performance at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Gavankar is known for her more notable roles as Papi, a promiscuous lesbian in The L Word, Leigh Turner, a cop with a big secret on "The Gates", Ms. Dewey, the personification of a Microsoft branded search engine who comments about the user's searches, Shiva, the namesake of the sought after trophy on The League, and, most recently, shapeshifter Luna Garza on HBO's True Blood.
Gavankar was born in Joliet, Illinois, to Pete and Mohra Gavankar. Her maternal grandmother was Dutch, and her mother, Shan-de-Mohra is half-Indian half-Dutch, from Pune, India.Her father, Pete Gavankar, was an Indian engineer who first travelled to the United States to pursue a masters degree.In January 2012, her father, Peter Gavankar, died.
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