Janina Gavankar is an American actress and is an American actress and musician. She portrays Papi on Showtime's The L Word.
Biography[]
Gavankar was born in Joliet, Illinois, to Mohra Gavankar, from Pune, Maharashtra, who emigrated to the U.S. from India – she is half-Indian and half-Dutch – and Peter Ganesh Gavankar, an engineer from Mumbai, who traveled to the U.S. to pursue a master's degree.