Rekha Sharma
Actor
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
The Core
as Danni 2003
Love Happens
as Nose-Ring 2009
Battlestar Galactica: The Plan
as Tory Foster 2009
Edison
as Prosecutor 2005
Whisper
as Mora 2007
Liberty Stands Still
as Usherette 2002
Fierce People
as Social Worker (uncredited) 2006
Memory
as Becka 2006
Mystery 101: Playing Dead
as Bella Brightman 2019
Tasmanian Devils
as Lisbon 2013
No Men Beyond This Point
as Ajala Bhatt 2015
The Stranger Beside Me
as Dr. Thurston 2003
Her Dark Past
as Dr. Karen Mathur 2016
To Have and to Hold
as Gina 2019
Make Me a Match
as Raina 2023
The Invitation
as Wife 2003