Rekha Sharma
Biography
Rekha Shanti Sharma is a Canadian actress best known for her portrayal of Tory Foster on Battlestar Galactica.
Her ancestors are from the state of Uttar Pradesh in India, which they left during the British period. Her family resettled in the Fiji Islands and her parents moved to Canada. She has an older brother, Sunil, who is nine years her senior. Their father is a Hindu priest.
Sharma started to pursue acting as a career in her 20s. She has stage experience but also appeared in television series like Da Vinci's City Hall, House M.D., The Lone Gunmen, Smallville, Supernatural, John Doe, Dark Angel, The Twilight Zone, Sanctuary, Hellcats, The Listener, and the 2009 re-imagined television series of V.
She also appeared in the movies The Core, Tasmanian Devils, and Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem. For fun, she paints and plays the sarangi, a stringed musical instrument.
Filmography
Bidet
2025
as Nirmala
Make Me a Match
2023
as Raina
Baking Spirits Bright
2021
as Mira Varma
Traces
2021
as Emily
My Father, My Kidnapper
2019
as Detective Webb
When the Train Stops
2019
as Chief Deputy Karen Blake
Mystery 101: Playing Dead
2019
as Bella Brightman
To Have and to Hold
2019
as Gina
Stood Up
2019
as Mya
Her Dark Past
2016
as Dr. Karen Mathur
Dark Harvest
2016
as Coroner
No Men Beyond This Point
2015
as Ajala Bhatt
Til Death Do Us Part
2014
as Det. Ruthers
Tasmanian Devils
2013
as Lisbon
The Cult
2010
as Nisha
Battlestar Galactica: The Plan
2009
as Tory Foster
Love Happens
2009
as Nose-Ring
Gym Teacher: The Movie
2008
as Reporter #1
Aliens vs Predator: Requiem
2007
as Nurse Helen
Whisper
2007
as Mora
Memory
2006
as Becka
Fierce People
2006
as Social Worker (uncredited)
Edison
2005
as Prosecutor
Ladies Night
2005
as Account Manager