Rekha Sharma

Acting

Born January 24, 1970, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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

• 2025Bidet — Nirmala
• Avatar: The Last Airbender — Amita
• 2023Make Me a Match — Raina
• The Imperfects — Dr. Dominique Crain
• 2021Baking Spirits Bright — Mira Varma
• 2021Traces — Emily
• United States of Al — Dr. Lewis
• Yellowjackets — Jessica Roberts
• Transplant — Neeta Devi
• Another Life — Ursula Monroe
• 2019My Father, My Kidnapper — Detective Webb
• 2019Mystery 101: Playing Dead — Bella Brightman
• Roswell, New Mexico — Shivani
• 2019Stood Up — Mya
• 2019To Have and to Hold — Gina
• 2019When the Train Stops — Chief Deputy Karen Blake
• After Trek
• Star Trek: Discovery — Commander Landry
• 2016Dark Harvest — Coroner
• 2016Her Dark Past — Dr. Karen Mathur
• 2015No Men Beyond This Point — Ajala Bhatt
• The 100 — Dr. Tsing
• 2014Til Death Do Us Part — Det. Ruthers
• Once Upon a Time in Wonderland — Willima
• 2013Tasmanian Devils — Lisbon
• Arrow — Claire Abott
• Nikita — Nisha Patel
• 2010The Cult — Nisha
• The Cult — Nisha
• 2009Battlestar Galactica: The Plan — Tory Foster
• 2009Love Happens — Nose-Ring
• The Listener — Lynn Kendall
• V — Sarita Malik
• 2008Gym Teacher: The Movie — Reporter #1
• Sanctuary — Amy Saunders
• 2007Aliens vs Predator: Requiem — Nurse Helen
• 2007Whisper — Mora
• 2006Fierce People — Social Worker (uncredited)
• 2006Memory — Becka
• 2005Edison — Prosecutor
• 2005Ladies Night — Account Manager
• Supernatural — Kaali
• Battlestar Galactica — Tory Foster
• House — Melanie Landon
• 2003The Core — Danni
• 2003The Invitation — Wife
• 2003The Stranger Beside Me — Dr. Thurston
• John Doe — Stella
• 2002Liberty Stands Still — Usherette
• The Twilight Zone — Kate Danvers
• Smallville — Dr. Harden
• The Lone Gunmen
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — Convention attendee (uncredited)
• Dark Angel — Beverly Hing (Coroner), Dr. Beverly Shankar
• The Outer Limits — Reese