Janina Gavankar earned as she learned. As a theater major in Chicago she was already working on the stage and filming commercials and independent films. She was also singing as part of the pop group Endera, signed to a subsidiary of Universal Records. A move to Los Angeles landed her on the boob tube in Girlfriends and Strong Medicine, but it’s her role as Papi on the Showtime hit The L Word where this ethnic mutt will make you wag your tail. She offers some brief nip with Leisha Hailey in “Livin’ La Vida Loca.” If that whets your appetite, then you’ll want to take a long slug from Cup of My Blood (2005), a horror flick where Janina shows of her T&A and joins in on a threesome with Daniela Heidner-Krueger, which is Mr. Skin’s cup of tease.