Personal Info
Birth date
1970-01-24 (55 Years)
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Also known as
Rekha Shanti Sharma
Rehka Sharma
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
Supernatural
8.299
Overview:
When they were boys, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. Subsequently, their father raised them to be soldiers. He taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America ... and he taught them how to kill it. Now, the Winchester brothers crisscross the country in their '67 Chevy Impala, battling every kind of supernatural threat they encounter along the way.House
8.592
Overview:
Dr. Gregory House, a drug-addicted, unconventional, misanthropic medical genius, leads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton–Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey.CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
7.635
Overview:
A Las Vegas team of forensic investigators are trained to solve criminal cases by scouring the crime scene, collecting irrefutable evidence and finding the missing pieces that solve the mystery.Arrow
6.826
Overview:
Spoiled billionaire playboy Oliver Queen is missing and presumed dead when his yacht is lost at sea. He returns five years later a changed man, determined to clean up the city as a hooded vigilante armed with a bow.Smallville
8.204
Overview:
The origins of the world’s greatest hero–from Krypton refugee Kal-el’s arrival on Earth through his tumultuous teen years to Clark Kent’s final steps toward embracing his destiny as the Man of Steel.The 100
7.891
Overview:
100 years in the future, when the Earth has been abandoned due to radioactivity, the last surviving humans live on an ark orbiting the planet — but the ark won't last forever. So the repressive regime picks 100 expendable juvenile delinquents to send down to Earth to see if the planet is still habitable.Battlestar Galactica
8.21
Overview:
When an old enemy, the Cylons, resurface and obliterate the 12 colonies, the crew of the aged Galactica protect a small civilian fleet - the last of humanity - as they journey toward the fabled 13th colony, Earth.Star Trek: Discovery
7.017
Overview:
Follow the voyages of Starfleet on their missions to discover new worlds and new life forms, and one Starfleet officer who must learn that to truly understand all things alien, you must first understand yourself.The Outer Limits
7.695
Overview:
Anthology series of composed of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end, with occasional recurring story elements that were often tied together during season-finale clip shows.Nikita
7.2
Overview:
Nikita will stop at nothing to expose and destroy Division, the secret U.S. agency who trained her as a spy and assassin.Sanctuary
7.2
Overview:
The adventures of the beautiful, enigmatic and always surprising Dr. Helen Magnus, a brilliant scientist who holds the secrets of a clandestine population called Abnormals—a group of strange and sometimes terrifying beings that hide among humans. Magnus seeks to protect this threatened phenomena as well as unlock the mysteries behind their existence.The Listener
6.827
Overview:
Toby Logan is a highly skilled paramedic with a secret – he can read minds. Toby never really knew his parents and grew up in foster care, this coupled with his secret, which he shares with no one, has made him a bit of a loner. Until now, Toby has kept his ability hidden, exploring its possibilities only with his long time mentor and confidante Dr. Ray Mercer.Dark Angel
7.527
Overview:
Super soldier Max Guevera tries to live a normal life in post-apocalyptic Seattle while eluding capture by government agents from the covert biotech facility she escaped from as a child and searching for her genetically-enhanced brothers and sisters who have dispersed after escape.V
6.79
Overview:
A re-imagining of the 1980s miniseries about the world's first encounter with an alien race in which the aliens call themselves The Visitors, and have a seemingly friendly agenda that may or may not be a cover for something more malevolent.The Twilight Zone
7.2
Overview:
A 2002 revival of Rod Serling's 1950/60s television series, The Twilight Zone, with actor Forest Whitaker assuming Serling's role as narrator and on-screen host.Yellowjackets
7.5
Overview:
This equal parts survival epic, psychological horror story and coming-of-age drama tells the saga of a team of wildly talented high school girls soccer players who become the (un)lucky survivors of a plane crash deep in the remote northern wilderness. The series chronicles their descent from a complicated but thriving team to savage clans, while also tracking the lives they’ve attempted to piece back together nearly 25 years later.Transplant
7.6
Overview:
Dr. Bashir Hamed, a Syrian doctor with battle-tested skills in emergency medicine, makes the difficult decision to flee his country and build a new life in Canada with his younger sister Amira. Bash works to navigate a new environment after earning a coveted residency in the Emergency Department of one of the best hospitals in Toronto, York Memorial.Avatar the Last Airbender
7.808
Overview:
A young boy known as the Avatar must master the four elemental powers to save a world at war — and fight a ruthless enemy bent on stopping him.John Doe
7.259
Overview:
John Doe tell the story of a man who wakes up naked on an island off the coast of Seattle, knowing everything in the world there is to know—except for who he is and how and why he ended up there.Aliens vs Predator: Requiem
5.168
Overview:
After a horrifying PredAlien crash-lands near a small Colorado town, killing everyone it encounters and producing countless Alien offspring, a lone Predator arrives to "clean up" the infestation.Roswell, New Mexico
7.779
Overview:
After reluctantly returning to her tourist-trap hometown of Roswell, New Mexico, the daughter of undocumented immigrants discovers a shocking truth about her teenage crush who is now a police officer—he’s an alien who has kept his unearthly abilities hidden his entire life. She protects his secret as the two reconnect and begin to investigate his origins, but when a violent attack and long-standing government cover-up point to a greater alien presence on Earth, the politics of fear and hatred threaten to expose him and destroy their deepening romance.Once Upon a Time in Wonderland
6.897
Overview:
In Victorian England, the young and beautiful Alice tells a tale of a strange new land that exists on the other side of a rabbit hole. Thinking Alice insane, her doctors aim to make her forget everything. While Alice is ready to put it all behind her, she knows this world is real. In the nick of time, the Knave of Hearts and the White Rabbit save her from a doomed fate. Together, the trio tumble down the rabbit hole to Wonderland, where nothing is impossible.The Core
5.818
Overview:
Geophysicist Dr. Josh Keyes discovers that an unknown force has caused the earth's inner core to stop rotating. With the planet's magnetic field rapidly deteriorating, our atmosphere literally starts to come apart at the seams with catastrophic consequences. To resolve the crisis, Keyes, along with a team of the world's most gifted scientists, travel into the earth's core. Their mission: detonate a device that will reactivate the core.Another Life
6.071
Overview:
After a massive alien artifact lands on Earth, Niko Breckinridge leads an interstellar mission to track down its source and make first contact.The Lone Gunmen
6.7
Overview:
After years of playing second fiddle to Agents Mulder and Scully on The X-Files, the trio of computer-hacking conspiracy geeks popularly known as The Lone Gunmen are finally heading out on their own. Never ones to stray far from the center of corporate and government intrigue, the threesome play like a misguided Mission Impossible team, embarking on a series of comic adventures that simultaneously highlight their genius and ineptitude.The Imperfects
7
Overview:
After an experimental gene therapy turns them into monsters, three twenty-somethings band together to hunt down the scientist responsible and force him to make them human again.Love Happens
5.842
Overview:
Dr. Burke Ryan is a successful self-help author and motivational speaker with a secret. While he helps thousands of people cope with tragedy and personal loss, he secretly is unable to overcome the death of his late wife. It's not until Burke meets a fiercely independent florist named Eloise that he is forced to face his past and overcome his demons.The Cult
NYR
Overview:
When a father discovers that his missing daughter has been indoctrinated into a cult, he goes underground and enters the cult to save her.Memory
5.128
Overview:
Dr. Taylor Biggs is haunted by a past that's not his own. A hallucinatory drug gives him the power to see visions of vicious crimes, visions made all that more disturbing when he discovers that the murderous memories may belong to the father he never knew . Biggs's mother, whose own failing memory makes her powerless to help him unravel his family history.Acting
2025Bidet as Nirmala
2024Avatar the Last Airbender as Amita
2023Make Me a Match as Raina
2022The Imperfects (5 Episodes) as Dr. Dominique Crain
2021Baking Spirits Bright as Mira Varma
2021Yellowjackets (9 Episodes) as Jessica Roberts
2021Traces as Emily
2020Transplant (21, 1 Episode) as Neeta Devi, Neeta Davi
2019My Father, My Kidnapper as Detective Webb
2019When the Train Stops as Chief Deputy Karen Blake
2019Another Life (1 Episode) as Ursula Monroe
2019Mystery 101: Playing Dead as Bella Brightman
2019To Have and to Hold as Gina
2019Stood Up as Mya
2019Roswell, New Mexico (11 Episodes) as Shivani
2017Star Trek: Discovery (5 Episodes) as Commander Landry
2016Her Dark Past as Dr. Karen Mathur
2016Dark Harvest as Coroner
2015No Men Beyond This Point as Ajala Bhatt
2014The 100 (9 Episodes) as Dr. Tsing
2014Til Death Do Us Part as Det. Ruthers
2013Once Upon a Time in Wonderland (1 Episode) as Willima
2013Tasmanian Devils as Lisbon
2012Arrow (1 Episode) as Claire Abott
2010Nikita (1 Episode) as Nisha Patel
2010The Cult (1 Episode) as Nisha
2009V (8 Episodes) as Sarita Malik
2009Battlestar Galactica: The Plan as Tory Foster
2009Love Happens as Nose-Ring
2009The Listener (1 Episode) as Lynn Kendall
2008Sanctuary (1 Episode) as Amy Saunders
2008Gym Teacher: The Movie as Reporter #1
2007Aliens vs Predator: Requiem as Nurse Helen
2007Whisper as Mora
2006Memory as Becka
2006Fierce People as Social Worker (uncredited)
2005Supernatural (1 Episode) as Kaali
2005Edison as Prosecutor
2004House (1 Episode) as Melanie Landon
2004Battlestar Galactica (31 Episodes) as Tory Foster
2003The Invitation as Wife
2003The Core as Danni
2003The Stranger Beside Me as Dr. Thurston
2002John Doe (16 Episodes) as Stella
2002The Twilight Zone (1 Episode) as Kate Danvers
2002Liberty Stands Still as Usherette
2001Smallville (7 Episodes) as Dr. Harden
2001The Lone Gunmen (1 Episode) as Unknown
2000CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (1 Episode) as Convention attendee (uncredited)
2000Dark Angel (1, 4 Episode) as Beverly Hing (Coroner), Dr. Beverly Shankar
1995The Outer Limits (1 Episode) as Reese