• Name: Tricia Helfer
  • Date of Birth: April 11, 1974
  • Place of Birth: Donalda, Alberta, Canada
Mini-bio: A former Canadian farm girl who found fame as a highly advanced humanoid robot intent on destroying the human race, Donalda, Alberta, native Tricia Helfer was discovered by a modeling agent while stil... read morel in high school and wasted no time packing her bags for New York City. It wasn't long after arriving in the Big Apple that Helfer won the "Ford Supermodel of the Year" award, with subsequent campaigns for Giorgio Armani, Chanel, and Ralph Lauren soon making her one of the most visible models in North America. Later, during an on-camera acting class intended to train her as a fashion correspondent for Canadian television, the prolific catwalk queen realized that her true ambition was to become a dramatic actress. In order to pursue her passion, Helfer set her sights on Los Angeles, with an early appearance on the Showtime's sci-fi series Jeremiah serving as both her acting debt and a sneak preview of her future success in the genre. Just one year later, Helfer was cast as seductive Cylon Number Six on the Sci-Fi Channel's miniseries Battlestar Galactica, a resurrection of the late-'70s series of the same name. Due to the success of the miniseries, the TV show continuation of the story soon followed, and proved to be just as enthusiastically received. Her work on the show grew to encompass a variety of different characters -- from murderous spys to a vulnerable, beaten-down captive to an authoritative revolutionary -- as there were innumerable copies of the Number Six model of Cylon, who often evinced quite distinct personalities, so the actress got to flex her acting muscles as the series went on. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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Replace this image with an actor photoTricia Helfer mini-bio: Patricia "Tricia" Helfer is a Canadian supermodel and actress best known as Number Six in Battlestar Galactica. While working in New York as a model, Helfer hosted a Canadian television fashion program Ooh La La. She relocated to Los Angeles in 2002 to pursue a full-time film career. Her first acting assignment was a co-starring role as Sarah on the television series Jeremiah. Thereafter she played the role of a model, Ashleigh James, in the May 16, 2002 episode "The Hunger Artist" on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. In 2002, Helfer played the female lead, Eva, in the independent film White Rush. In 2003, Helfer was chosen to play Number Six, the Cylon agent in the Sci Fi channel miniseries Battlestar Galactica (2003). The miniseries, which was a remake of the 1970s series Battlestar Galactica, was a huge ratings success, due in part to the visually attractive mind games between Number Six and scientist Dr. Gaius Baltar. It has now become a television series in which Helfer is a main cast member; the series is currently in its third season.

In the fall of 2003, Helfer was offered the role depicting Farrah Fawcett in the NBC telemovie Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of 'Charlie's Angels'. She also regularly appeared in photo shoots by Maxim magazine and was the magazine's wall calendar girl for 2005. She was ranked #83 on the Maxim Hot 100 Women of 2005. Concurrent with her role in Battlestar Galactica, Helfer began producing and hosting Canada's Next Top Model on May 31, 2006. In 2006, Helfer appeared in the motion pictures Spiral and The Green Chain. Helfer has been married to lawyer Jonathan S. Marshall of Marshall Wight LLP since 2003. She is represented by Gordon Gilbertson of Gilbertson Kincaid in Santa Monica, California.

In October 2006, it was announced that Helfer would not return to host the second season of Canada's Next Top Model in order to concentrate on her work on Battlestar Galactica. Helfer will also be playing a role in Electronic Arts Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars, as a character named Kilian Qatar, along with her Battlestar Galactica co-star, Grace Park.

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