Janina Gavankar

Janina Gavankar, born on 29 November 1980 in Joliet, Illinois, is an Indian-American actress and musician. She trained as a pianist, vocalist and orchestral percussionist and studied theatre at the University of Illinois Chicago. On television she appeared in The L Word, True Blood, Arrow, Sleepy Hollow, The Vampire Diaries, The Morning Show and Big Sky, and in games she voiced and performed Iden Versio in Star Wars Battlefront II and Kiran Estevez in Alan Wake 2. Early in her career she also became the face of Ms. Dewey, a personified search assistant for Microsoft, and she co-hosted gaming programmes on G4. Her interests in technology and online media are part of her public profile: she produced a feature that was the first narrative film shot with the Arri Alexa LF camera, and in 2012 she received the Gravity Summit Award for Excellence in Social Media.