Tricia Helfer

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Tricia Helfer
<tr><td style="text-align:left;">Birth name</td><td>Patricia Helfer</td></tr>
Born	April 11, 1974 Donalda, Alberta, Canada
Height	5' 10" (1.78 m)
Official site	http://www.triciahelfer.com
Notable roles	Number Six in Battlestar Galactica

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

1 Early life
2 Career
- 2.1 Fashion modeling
- 2.2 Acting
3 Filmography
4 External links

[edit] 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.

[edit] Career

[edit] Fashion modeling

In 1992, she won Ford Models' Supermodel of the World Contest and was subsequently signed to the Elite Model Management and is currently signed with Trump Model Management. She has appeared in ad campaigns, including Ralph Lauren, Chanel, and Giorgio Armani. Helfer has walked for top fashion shows such as Carolina Herrera, Christian Dior, Claude Montana, Givenchy, John Galliano, Ralph Lauren, and Dolce & Gabbana. Helfer has graced the covers of Flare, Amica, ELLE, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, and Vogue, among others.

[edit] Acting

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. 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.

It has recently been confirmed that she will 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. 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.[1]