Tricia Helfer



Tricia Janine Helfer (born April 11, 1974) is a Canadian model and actress. She is best known for playing the humanoid Cylon Number Six in Ronald D. Moore's re-imagined Battlestar Galactica television series.



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[hide]  *1 Early life  ==Early life[edit] == Tricia Helfer was born in rural Donalda, Alberta to Dennis and Elaine Helfer.[1]  She lived and worked on the family's grain farm with her three sisters, Trina, Tammy, and Tara. She was discovered at age 17 by a modeling agency scout while standing in line at a local movie theatre.[1]  She is of German, English, Swedish and Norwegian descent.[2] ==Career[edit] == ===Fashion modeling[edit] === In 1992, she won Ford Models' Supermodel of the World Contest and was subsequently signed to Elite Model Management and later to Trump Model Management.[3] Helfer retired from fashion modeling in 2002 and claimed all her shoots since then are related to projects or product endorsements. She has appeared in ad campaigns forRalph Lauren, Versace, Chanel, and Giorgio Armani.[3]
 * 2 Career
 * 2.1 Fashion modeling
 * 2.2 Acting
 * 2.2.1 Battlestar Galactica
 * 2.2.2 Other appearances
 * 3 Personal life
 * 4 Filmography
 * 4.1 Film
 * 4.2 Television
 * 4.3 Video games
 * 5 References
 * 6 External links

Helfer has walked for top fashion shows such as Carolina Herrera, Christian Dior, Claude Montana, Givenchy, John Galliano, and Dolce & Gabbana.[3]  Helfer has appeared on the covers of Flare, Amica, ELLE,Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, and Vogue, among others.[3]  She also regularly appeared in photo shoots by Maxim magazine, was the magazine's wall calendar girl for 2005, and was ranked #57 on the Maxim's Hot 100 Women of 2007.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[4] ===Acting<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;">[edit] === Helfer arriving at the gala showing of her film Walk All Over Me at the 2007 Calgary International Film Festival<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Helfer hosted a Canadian television fashion program, Canada's Next Top Model.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5]  She relocated to Los Angeles in 2002 to pursue a full-time acting career.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-OffBio_6-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[6]  Her first acting assignment was a co-starring role as Sarah on the television series Jeremiah. She later played a model named Ashleigh James on the May 16, 2002episode of CSI ("The Hunger Artist"). In 2002, she played "Eva" in the independent film White Rush.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-imdb_7-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[7]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">In 2003, she played Number Six on Battlestar Galactica. In 2004, she portrayed Farrah Fawcett in the telemovie The Unauthorized Story of 'Charlie's Angels'.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[8]  Concurrent with her role in Battlestar Galactica, Helfer began producing and hosting Canada's Next Top Model on May 31, 2006. She appeared in Spiral and The Green Chain later the same year.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">In October 2006, it was announced that Helfer would not return to host the second season of Canada's Next Top Model so she could concentrate on Battlestar Galactica.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-citynews_9-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[9]  Helfer also played a major role in Electronic Arts Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars, as the high-level Nod general Kilian Qatar, along with her Battlestar Galactica co-star, actress Grace Park.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-yahoo_10-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[10]  She also starred in the episode "Roadkill" on the second season of Supernatural.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Helfer had a recurring role on CBS' Two and a Half Men. She played Gail, best friend of Charlie's (Charlie Sheen) fiancé Chelsea (Jennifer Bini Taylor). When Chelsea finds out that her friend is recovering from a breakup, she says she should do so at Charlie's house.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-11" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[11]  Shortly after Chelsea and Charlie begin a trial separation, Gail begins a sexual relationship with Charlie. ====Battlestar Galactica<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;">[edit] ==== Main article: Number Six (Battlestar Galactica)<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">In 2003, the television series Battlestar Galactica was used as the basis for a three hour miniseries on the Sci Fi channel. The project was written and produced by Ronald D. Mooreand directed by Michael Rymer. Helfer played the role of Number Six, a humanoid Cylon operative. She continued that role as a regular cast member in the TV series, which completed its fourth and final season on March 20, 2009. Due to the special nature of the Number Six character – there are many "copies" of Number Six with distinct personalities – Helfer has, in effect, played numerous roles on the series. In 2009, she reprised her role as Number Six in Battlestar Galactica: The Plan – a television movie that tells the story of the series from the Cylons' point of view. In 2012, she voiced a prototype Cylon in the prequel Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Awards:

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Nominations:
 * Leo Awards, Best Lead Performance By A Female in a Dramatic Series, Tricia Helfer ("Pegasus")

====Other appearances<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;">[edit] ==== <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">In August 2008, Helfer appeared on the stage of NVISION 08, an event sponsored by NVIDIA, where she discussed her role in Battlestar Galactica as well as the use of computer graphics on the show.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-12" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[12]  Helfer appeared as Chuck’s Season 2 secret agent "handler" in the NBC series Chuck,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-13" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[13]  and as Michael Westen's Season 2 nemesis in the USA Network series Burn Notice as "Carla". She appears as herself in Old 97'smusic video for Old 97's song, "Dance with Me".
 * Scream Awards, Breakout Performance, Tricia Helfer as Number Six
 * Scream Awards, Best Television Actress, Tricia Helfer

Helfer at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">She guest starred in "Resonance", the second episode of Warehouse 13 as FBI Agent Bonnie Belski on Syfy. She made a guest appearance in the pilot episode of Fox's 2009 mid-season series Human Target. She has played several prominent video game roles in recent years; including Kilian Quatar in Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars, Veronica Dare inHalo 3: ODST and EDI, the ship-borne artificial intelligence aboard the Normandy SR-2 in Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3. She voices Sarah Kerrigan in StarCraft II: Wings of Libertyas well as the expansion sets Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm and Starcraft II: Legacy of the Void. Helfer voices the "Black Cat" in The Spectacular Spider-Man and she reprises the role in Spider-Man: Web of Shadows and Ultimate Spider-Man.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-imdb_7-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[7]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Helfer joined the cast of Jerry Bruckheimer's TNT drama, Dark Blue,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-14" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[14]  as FBI Special Agent Alex Rice. The show was cancelled in November 2010 because of its very low ratings.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-15" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[15]  In October 2010, she made a guest appearance on Lie to Me.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-16" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[16]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">In 2011, she starred in The Black Keys' music video for "Howlin' for You".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-17" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[17]  She made guest appearances in No Ordinary Family (2011),<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-18" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[18]  and Franklin & Bash (2011).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-19" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[19]  In 2011, Helfer starred as Morgana, a necromancer, in the TV series pilot 17th Precinct from Ron Moore with Galactica's co-stars James Callis and Jamie Bamber.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-20" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[20]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">In October 2011, she got the lead role in the TV Pilot Scent of the Missing as Susannah, a K-9 Search and Rescue Volunteer.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-21" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[21]  In November 2011, she appeared in the Hallmark TV Movie Mistletoe Over Manhattan.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-daemon_22-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[22]  For 2012, she signed for the recurring role of Alex Clark in the new NBC TV Series The Firm.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-daemon_22-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[22]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">On May 16, 2012, she appeared in the two-part finale of season 7 of the CBS series Criminal Minds, in which she led a team of bank-robbing serial killers. She guest starred in the second season of the Jane Espenson scripted romantic comedy web series, Husbands.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-EW_23-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[23]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">In 2014, she played Molly Parker on ABC´s Killer Women, a remake of Argentinian drama Mujeres Asesinas, with producer Sofia Vergara.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-imdb_7-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[7]  On April 30, the Syfy network announced Helfer has been cast in the miniseries Ascension, slated to air in November and December 2014. She will play Viondra Denniger, the steward and wife of the captain of the titular starship on its long journey carrying people to populate a new world.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Ascension_24-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[24] ==Personal life<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;">[edit] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">She is married to Johnathan Marshall, a lawyer whom she met at a mutual friend's birthday party.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-UMM_2-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[2]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">She has four artificial discs in her back and two in her neck, resulting from an incident in which a piece of luggage was dropped on her head while sitting on a commercial airliner, and two in her lower back from mishaps while doing her own stunts.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-LopezTonight_25-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[25]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">She co-founded the charity web site "Acting Outlaws"<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-26" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[26]  with Katee Sackhoff, which is open for donations for different causes and charity events.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-27" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[27]  She is also involved in various causes, from animal rescue<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-28" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[28]  to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-29" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[29]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">In 2014, she appeared in a PETA video campaign, encouraging cat owners to keep their pets indoors.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-30" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[30] ==Filmography<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;">[edit] == Helfer at the Supernova Pop Culture Expo Hits Sydney, Australia 2012===Film<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;">[edit] === ===Television<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;">[edit] === Helfer at Pre-Emmy party in September 2008 ===Video games<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;">[edit] ===