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  • Birth Place: Joliet, IL
  • Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 11/29/1983, Sagittarius
  • Profession: Actor; musician
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The Vampire Diaries' Janina Gavankar on Her Qetsiyah Reveal: "It's a Bloody Arc"

Hell hath no fury like a 2,000-year-old woman scorned.

After almost a full season since the character was first mentioned, Vampire Diaries fans finally got to meet the show's most powerful witch, Qetsiyah, in the flesh. Turns out Tessa (Janina Gavankar), the Mystic Falls newcomer determined to take down Silas (Paul Wesley) was also the witch who created the immortality spell, the other side and the cure.

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The Thursday Playlist: Reign, White Collar Join a Crowded Night

History be damned. And that's no joke, though the show sometimes feels like one. The CW's Reign (Thursday, 9/8c) is all about herstory, an opulent and giddy bodice-ripper very loosely inspired by the teenage years of the ultimately ill-fated Mary, Queen of Scots (a pouty Adelaide Kane). It's like Masterpiece Junior as seen on MTV after a jolt of Red Bull, or more to the point, Gossip Girl goes to court. And while it will win no prizes for scholarly accuracy (to put it mildly), Reign is such a fanciful folly of royal romance and literally poisonous court gossip that it's hard not to hail a CW show that breaks so lavishly from the network's usual formula of angst-ridden ghouls and cloying rom-com.

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The Vampire Diaries Bite: Bonnie's Been Slapped Into Reality

It ain't easy being Bonnie Bennett.

The Vampire Diaries' resident witch has gone through a lot in her life, which culminated in her death in the Season 4 finale. But while she seemed rather content with being on the other side, the death of her father and the realization that she's pretty much powerless has slapped Bonnie back to reality. So where does she go from here? And how long before the secret of her death is too much to handle? Kat Graham shares some teases for what's to come.

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The Vampire Diaries: The Complete Fifth Season [HD]
The Vampire Diaries: The Complete Fifth Season
Simon Cowell Dating Woman Who Looks Like His Ex-Fiance

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Barbershop 2: Back In Business
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Year Title Description
2010 The Gates TV Show Series, Actor - Leigh Turner
2008 True Blood TV Show Series, Actor - Luna
2004 Barbershop 2 Movie, Actor - Field Reporter
2004 The L Word TV Show Series, Actor - Papi
2002 Barbershop Movie, Actor - Fine Woman

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First Look: Janina Gavankar Joins The Vampire Diaries

Mystic Falls gets an infusion of fresh blood when The Vampire Diaries premieres on Oct. 3. Among the newbies: Tessa (True Blood's Janina Gavankar), whom executive producer Caroline Dries describes as "a beautiful and exotic self-assured woman who comes to town to rekindle an old flame."

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Exclusive: CW's Web Series Husbands Adds Cast Members from True Blood, CollegeHumor

True Blood alum Janina Gavankar is joining the cast of The CW's web seriesHusbands, TVGuide.com has learned. 

She'll join Elaine Carroll, the creator of College Humor's Mary-Kate Olsen satireVery Mary Kate in playing "odd, modern incarnations of suburban sitcom archetypes," according to Husbands showrunner Brad Bell. The show is about a gay couple who accidentally gets married after just six weeks of dating and later moves to the suburbs.

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True Blood Postmortem: Season 6's First Casualty Speaks!

[Warning: This story contains major spoilers from the sixth season premiere of True Blood. Read at your own risk.]

It should come as no surprise that the True Blood premiere featured a lot of death — including one that was first suspected at the end of last season.

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Billith, Babies and Blood! 14 True Blood Spoilers From Season 6

Billith has risen!

True Blood returns for its sixth season Sunday (9/8c, HBO), picking up just moments after Bill (Stephen Moyer) drank the blood of original vampire Lilith (Jessica Clark), exploded and then resurrected from a pool of blood. Totally normal, right? But Billith will be the least of everyone's worries this season as Louisiana declares war on vampires. Not to mention, the mysterious Warlow is also coming after Sookie (Anna Paquin). With so much in store, TVGuide.com caught up with the cast of HBO's hit series to get the low down: read more

Did Arrow Heed Our Advice on How to Make a Superhero Series Work?

With Arrow's first season finale airing Wednesday at 8/7c, TVGuide.com thought it would be a good time to look back at The CW's super series as a whole, and see if they heeded our original advice on how to make a show about DC Comics' emerald archer work.

12 things Arrow can learn from Smallville, Buffy and more!

Last summer, we gathered a list of 12 things that Arrow should and shouldn't do in order to be a successful series based on tried-and-true heroic formats, including Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Green Lantern, Batman Begins and superhero predecessor Smallville. Let's take a look and see if they listened: read more

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