My love for random Vancouver actors knows no bounds

The Mr and I are still catching up on Season 5 of Stargate Atlantis, slowly but surely, and tonight's viewing afforded me a surprise cameo by one of my favorite lesser known actresses: Janina Gavankar.

I first saw her in the Microsoft test project for a search engine with an actress providing dialogue/feedback as part of an interactive interface: www.msdewey.com . Working with the sexy librarian/dominatrix theme, Ms Dewey would help you narrow down your search terms and crack the whip (literally) if you were taking too long or goofing off.

Then I saw Ms Gavankar as the beautiful and sassy Papi on the L Word and I fell massively in girlcrush. We'll just handwave the decision to pick an actress of Indian descent to play a Hispanic character and focus on the awesomeness of Papi. She was sexy, outspoken and completely irresistable. She was great as a rival for Shane (see icon) and she was great as a character in her own right.

So, imagine my delight when she pops up as a random military extra, Sargeant 'Dusty' Mehra, in a highly femslash-friendly all-female away team on SGA. Loved it!

( Cut for mini-picspam of Janina Gavankar )

Also lovedlovedloved The Shrine. What a fabulous episode. I love this show!!!