Date of publishing: 21st
September 2008
Janina Zione Gavankar is an American
actress and musician of mixed Indian and Dutch descent.
She is also trained as a pianist, vocalist, and orchestral
percussionist. She majored in Theatre Performance
at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Musically,
she used to be in Endera, a group signed to Universal
Records. She also collaborated on a project for a
song called "Tell Me What" in India with
Pratichee Mohapatra of Viva, Deep, and Navraaz. She
has had songs licensed to movies and television, and
has played marimba on film scores. Janina's most notable
roles are that of Papi, a promiscuous lesbian in The
L Word, and Ms. Dewey, the personification of a Microsoft
branded search engine who comments about the user's
searches (www.msdewey.com).
She has appeared in theatre, commercials, short films,
independent films, ... In 2008, she was nominated
for an Asian Excellence Award. She is also rumoured
to be joining the cast of Grey's Anatomy for the upcoming
fifth season. Recently, she played the role of a soldier
in Stargate Atlantis (with Christina Cox) and gave
this little homoristic touch to the episode (5x07
"Whispers").
 Christina
Cox was born in Toronto. She studied theatre
and dance at the Arts York at Unionville High School.
She continued her theatre training at the Ryerson
Theatre School of Toronto where she studied for two
years. She competed in the areas of gymnastics, track
and field and Tae Kwon Do. At one point she had aspirations
of becoming an Olympic gymnast but then focused on
drama and dance while in high school. She is also
proficient in boxing, Muay Thai Kickboxing and fencing
and has had training in stage combat, period weaponry
and firearms. She has over 38 movie and television
appearances to her credit. Her best known movie roles
include the 1999 Canadian movie Better than Chocolate,
where she co-starred as Kim, and a feature supporting
role as Eve Logan in The Chronicles of Riddick. She
received a Gemini Award nomination for her performance
of Angela Ramírez in F/X: The Series in the
episode Red Storm. Christina has appeared in numerous
national theater productions. She is also credited
with stuntwork in Million Dollar Baby, starring Hilary
Swank. On television she is known for her role of
Vicki Nelson in Blood Ties, a supernatural detective
series based on the novels by Tanya Huff and Stargate
SG-1 & Stargate Atlantis, where she played 3 episodes
and 3 different roles.
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