
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.

Bidet
2025

Make Me a Match
2023

Baking Spirits Bright
2021

Traces
2021

My Father, My Kidnapper
2019

When the Train Stops
2019

Mystery 101: Playing Dead
2019

To Have and to Hold
2019

Stood Up
2019

Her Dark Past
2016

Dark Harvest
2016

No Men Beyond This Point
2015

Til Death Do Us Part
2014

Tasmanian Devils
2013

The Cult
2010

Battlestar Galactica: The Plan
2009

Love Happens
2009

Gym Teacher: The Movie
2008

Aliens vs Predator: Requiem
2007

Whisper
2007

Memory
2006

Fierce People
2006

Edison
2005

The Invitation
2003

The Core
2003

The Stranger Beside Me
2003

Liberty Stands Still
2002