Rekha Sharma

Rekha Sharma

Born: January 24, 1970
in 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.

Movies for Rekha Sharma...

Make Me a Match
Title: Make Me a Match
Character: Raina
Released: June 24, 2023
Type: Movie
Vivi, an optimistic woman with a substandard romantic history, works at a data-driven matchmaking app. Once she discovers that the success rate for matches at her company is low, she hires Raina, an Indian matchmaker, to provide advice on how to improve their numbers. As they embark on this matchmaking journey, Vivi meets Raina’s spontaneous son, Bhumesh, and questions whether finding love is something one must take control of or let naturally come to them.
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Title: The Imperfects
Character: Dr. Dominique Crain
Released: September 8, 2022
Type: TV
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.
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Baking Spirits Bright
Title: Baking Spirits Bright
Character: Mira Varma
Released: November 21, 2021
Type: Movie
Mira Varma takes pride in her family's business of making fruitcakes, despite the decline in its popularity of once being America's most-gifted holiday confection. When Mira's parents decide to hire Brady Phillips and his high-powered marketing company to boost sales for the holidays, Mira must fight to hold on to the heart of the company she loves so much.
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Title: Yellowjackets
Character: Jessica Roberts
Released: November 14, 2021
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Transplant
Character: Neeta Devi
Released: February 26, 2020
Type: TV
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.
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My Father, My Kidnapper
Title: My Father, My Kidnapper
Character: Detective Webb
Released: November 29, 2019
Type: Movie
When her mother Jane suddenly disappears, Casey must face the dark secrets of the past to find her before it's too late.
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When the Train Stops
Title: When the Train Stops
Character: Chief Deputy Karen Blake
Released: November 11, 2019
Type: Movie
Clive Emerson is a young fugitive with a troubled past and a bleak future. When the law catches up with him, he’s taken into custody by U.S. Marshal Preston Booth and begins a long train trip across the American southwest back to prison. Though Booth takes a personal interest in the case when Clive insists upon his innocence, the young man ultimately resigns himself to his sad fate. But little does Clive know that the future waiting for him when the train stops isn’t at all what he expects.
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Title: Another Life
Character: Ursula Monroe
Released: July 25, 2019
Type: TV
After a massive alien artifact lands on Earth, Niko Breckinridge leads an interstellar mission to track down its source and make first contact.
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Mystery 101: Playing Dead
Title: Mystery 101: Playing Dead
Character: Bella Brightman
Released: June 23, 2019
Type: Movie
The local theater is producing a mystery that crime fiction expert Amy unearthed. When one of the actress' life is threatened, Amy & Travis must uncover which character is playing for keeps.
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To Have and To Hold
Title: To Have and To Hold
Character: Gina
Released: June 22, 2019
Type: Movie
"To Have and to Hold" centers on Alice who still can't believe her high school crush, the dashing, wealthy and successful Joe Chambers, would choose to marry her and willingly allows him to mold her into his ideal socialite wife. Despite Alice's best efforts to be the woman of Joe's dreams, he can't help but be unfaithful to her. When Joe's indiscretions impact his career, Alice's life is further turned upside down. Alice unexpectedly finds herself falling for her best friend's boyfriend and begins to wonder if her fairy tale ending could exist after all.
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Stood Up
Title: Stood Up
Character: Mya
Released: March 10, 2019
Type: Movie
Dialogue free and universal in its story-telling, Stood Up is a short film filled with memories of happily ever afters and love at first sight. Charming, loyal and perpetually single Ben is tired of always being the best friend and wing-man. After deciding to shake things up, he agrees to a blind date. But, when things go awry, will fate step in and save him from forever being friend-zoned?
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Title: Roswell, New Mexico
Character: Shivani
Released: January 15, 2019
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Star Trek: Discovery
Character: Commander Landry
Released: September 24, 2017
Type: TV
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.
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Her Dark Past
Title: Her Dark Past
Character: Dr. Karen Mathur
Released: November 27, 2016
Type: Movie
After waking up from a coma, Alice has no memory. As she learns the horrible truths about her past self, she must fight for redemption.
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No Men Beyond This Point
Title: No Men Beyond This Point
Character: Ajala Bhatt
Released: January 27, 2015
Type: Movie
In a world where women have become asexual and are no longer giving birth to males, a quiet, unassuming housekeeper named Andrew Myers finds himself at the center of a battle to keep men from going extinct.
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Title: The 100
Character: Dr. Tsing
Released: March 19, 2014
Type: TV
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.
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Til Death Do Us Part
Title: Til Death Do Us Part
Character: Det. Ruthers
Released: January 1, 2014
Type: Movie
A woman investigates the past of her seemingly ideal husband, a doctor who starts to become increasingly hostile.
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Title: Once Upon a Time in Wonderland
Character: Willima
Released: October 10, 2013
Type: TV
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.
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Tasmanian Devils
Title: Tasmanian Devils
Character: Lisbon
Released: January 31, 2013
Type: Movie
Tasmanian Devil Synopsis: Danica McKellar (“The Wonder Years,” “The West Wing”) and Olympic speed skating champion Apolo Ohno take on a deadly mythical beast in the new Syfy Saturday Original Movie “Tasmanian Devil.”
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Title: Arrow
Character: Claire Abott
Released: October 10, 2012
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Nikita
Character: Nisha Patel
Released: September 9, 2010
Type: TV
Nikita will stop at nothing to expose and destroy Division, the secret U.S. agency who trained her as a spy and assassin.
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Title: The Cult
Character: Nisha
Released: June 6, 2010
Type: TV
When a father discovers that his missing daughter has been indoctrinated into a cult, he goes underground and enters the cult to save her.
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Title: V
Character: Sarita Malik
Released: November 3, 2009
Type: TV
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.
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Battlestar Galactica: The Plan
Title: Battlestar Galactica: The Plan
Character: Tory Foster
Released: October 27, 2009
Type: Movie
When the initial Cylon attack against the Twelve Colonies fails to achieve complete extermination of human life as planned, twin Number Ones (Cavils) embedded on Galactica and Caprica must improvise to destroy the human survivors.
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Love Happens
Title: Love Happens
Character: Nose-Ring
Released: September 18, 2009
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Sanctuary
Character: Amy Saunders
Released: October 3, 2008
Type: TV
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.
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Gym Teacher: The Movie
Title: Gym Teacher: The Movie
Character: Reporter #1
Released: September 12, 2008
Type: Movie
Dave Stweie was America's hope for the gold in the 1988 Seoul Games.... until he ran face first into the vault. After Suffering humiliation on a global scale, Dave eventually faded into obscurity and became a gym teacher. A gym teacher with the drive of a former Champion, that is, who takes his job seriously. Very seriously!
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Aliens vs Predator: Requiem
Title: Aliens vs Predator: Requiem
Character: Nurse Helen
Released: December 25, 2007
Type: Movie
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.
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Whisper
Title: Whisper
Character: Mora
Released: November 27, 2007
Type: Movie
Sinister things begin happening to kidnappers who are holding a young boy for ransom in a remote cabin.
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Fierce People
Title: Fierce People
Character: Social Worker (uncredited)
Released: November 5, 2007
Type: Movie
A massage therapist looking to overcome her addictions and reconnect with her son, whose father is an anthropologist in South America studying the Yanomani people, moves in with a wealthy ex-client in New Jersey.
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Memory
Title: Memory
Character: Becka
Released: November 1, 2006
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Supernatural
Character: Kaali
Released: September 13, 2005
Type: TV
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.
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Edison
Title: Edison
Character: Prosecutor
Released: July 29, 2005
Type: Movie
In the troubled city of Edison, a young journalist, his jaded editor, and an honest investigator from the district attorney's office join forces to gather evidence against corrupt members of an elite police unit.
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Title: House
Character: Melanie Landon
Released: November 16, 2004
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Battlestar Galactica
Character: Tory Foster
Released: October 18, 2004
Type: TV
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.
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The Core
Title: The Core
Character: Danni
Released: March 28, 2003
Type: Movie
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.
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Ann Rule Presents: The Stranger Beside Me
Title: Ann Rule Presents: The Stranger Beside Me
Character: Dr. Thurston
Released: March 20, 2003
Type: Movie
While working at a Seattle clinic for women in the 1970s, Ann Rule becomes friends with Ted Bundy. Based on a book by Ann Rule.
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Title: John Doe
Character: Stella
Released: September 20, 2002
Type: TV
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.
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Title: The Twilight Zone
Character: Kate Danvers
Released: September 18, 2002
Type: TV
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.
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Liberty Stands Still
Title: Liberty Stands Still
Character: Usherette
Released: January 18, 2002
Type: Movie
As the heir and current marketing director for one of the nation's biggest gun manufacturers, Liberty Wallace is indifferent to the atrocities made possible through her business and her CEO husband, Victor. On her way to see her actor lover, Liberty ends up chained to a food cart full of explosives -- all at the insistence of "Joe", a sniper whose young daughter was a victim of gun violence, and who now has Liberty in his sights.
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Title: Smallville
Character: Dr. Harden
Released: October 16, 2001
Type: TV
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.
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Title: The Lone Gunmen
Released: March 4, 2001
Type: TV
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.
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Title: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Character: Convention attendee (uncredited)
Released: October 6, 2000
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Dark Angel
Character: Beverly Hing (Coroner)
Released: October 3, 2000
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Dark Angel
Character: Dr. Beverly Shankar
Released: October 3, 2000
Type: TV
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.
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Title: The Outer Limits
Character: Reese
Released: March 26, 1995
Type: TV
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.