Janina Gavankar
Janina Gavankar
Janina Zione Gavankar is an American actress known for her role as the voice of FERO, one of main protagonists in the Halo 5: Guardians promotional event, Hunt The Truth. Gavankar is also trained as a pianist, vocalist, and orchestral percussionist. She majored in Theatre Performance at the University of Illinois at Chicago...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth29 November 1980
CityJoliet, IL
CountryUnited States of America
You want to do things that you watched when you grew up. I grew up on The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins and Singin' in the Rain. I watched those, over and over again, so of course, I want to do musicals.
I love big ensemble shows where there are a lot of things going on and you have to really pay attention because there's a lot of nuanced work and universal themes are being explored.
I think there's an innate sexuality that is attached to vampires and werewolves. It's passionate and sexual, undeniably so.
I think that you really get what you recognize is in the universe.
People don't recognize me from gig to gig. They have no idea. But, that's really what I strive to do. I strive to stip myself down completely and build another human and become them.
If you look at everything I've done, each character is so wildly different from each other, and that's what "The L Word" afforded me the opportunity to do. I want to continue to play characters that are not like me at all, and transform.
I've always done a few things at once. I've always been a musician and an actor, at the same time.
Music has always been a part of my life. I make music all the time.
Music informs my work so intensely. The better actor I become, the better pianist I become, and vice versa.
I want to do a musical so bad. I don't care what it is. I'm not picky. I just want to do a musical. I'm shameless, but it's true.
Today's imaginary band name: The Significan't.
I grew up playing classical piano and percussion.