Tricia Helfer

Patricia "Tricia" Helfer (born April 11, 1974), is a Canadian supermodel and actress.

Early Life

Helfer was born in the rural community of Donalda in Stettler County, Alberta. She was raised on her family's grain farm and at the age of 17, while standing in line at a local movie theatre, she was discovered by modelling agency scout Kelly Streit.

Career

Modeling

In 1992, she won Ford Models' Supermodel of the World Contest and was subsequently signed to the Elite Model Management. She modelled clothes for Givenchy, Christian Dior, Claude Montana and Emanuel Ungaro, among others. Helfer has also appeared on the covers of fashion magazines ELLE (August 1993), Amica Italia (November 1996), Cosmopolitan (July 1998), Vogue, and Fashion (June 2006). She has done photo assignments for Chanel's Cristalle perfume and Victoria's Secret lingerie.

Acting

Helfer hosted a television fashion program Ooh La La in Canada, before moving to New York City to learn acting. She relocated to Los Angeles in 1996 to pursue a full-time film career. Apart from starring in a number of fashion documentaries, Helfer appeared on the comedy short Eventual Wife, as Inga, in 2000. She also co-starred as Sarah on the television series Jeremiah and played the role of a model, Ashleigh James, in the May 16, 2002 episode "The Hunger Artist" on Crime Scene Investigation. In 2003, Helfer played the female lead Eva in the independent film White Rush. She also became a noted judge for Miss Teen USA and Miss USA beauty pageants. Helfer's most visible acting role to date has been as 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 has been renewed for a third season.

Early in 2004, 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. Concurrent with her role in Battlestar Galactica, Helfer began hosting and judging of Canada's Next Top Model on May 31 2006. That same month, Maxim magazine named her #95 on their annual Hot 100 List. She is also featured in their Girls of Maxim Gallery.

Helfer has been married to lawyer Jonathen Marshall since 2002.

Filmography

Eventual Wife (2000)
White Rush (2003)
Battlestar Galactica (2003) mini-series
The Unauthorized Story of Charlie's Angels (2004)
Battlestar Galactica (2004) television series
Canada's Next Top Model (2006) television series

External links

Official website