Gavankar\'s roles include Papi, a lesbian lothario in The L Word; Leigh Turner, a police officer on The Gates; Ms. Dewey, the personification of a Microsoft branded search engine who commented on the user\'s searches; Shiva, the namesake of the sought-after trophy on The League; shapeshifter Luna Garza on HBO\'s True Blood; McKenna Hall on The CW\'s Arrow; and Meredith Bose on NBC\'s The Mysteries of Laura. She also played Diana Thomas on FOX\'s supernatural drama Sleepy Hollow.\n', '

Gavankar was born in Joliet, Illinois, to Peter Ganesh Gavankar, an engineer from Mumbai, who first traveled to the U.S. to pursue a master\'s degree, and Mohra Gavankar, from Pune, Maharashtra, who also emigrated to the US from India. Her mother is half-Indian and half-Dutch.\n', '

From 2004-10 she was in a relationship with DeviantArt CEO Angelo Sotira.\n', '

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