Tricia Helfer is the beautiful canadian model turned actress who plays the stunning Cylon No. 6. She was born in Alberta, Canada on the 11 th April 1974 and raised on her parents farm.
Scouted at High School she began modelling in her teens and worked for many of the top designers, including Giorgio Armani, Versace, and Dolce Gabbana on both the catwalk in Milan, Paris London and New York and as a photograhic model appearing in Elle, Vogue Cosmopolitan and well as hundreds of others. It was whilst working as a model that Helfer discovered her love of acting, and she moved from New York to Los Angeles in 2002 to pursue this new career. Success followed when she came to the attention of casting directors everywhere for her moving performance in the season two finale of the long running TV hit CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
In 2003 Helfer landed the role which would introduce her to Sci Fi fans everywhere and convert her into an icon, she became the beautiful and enigmatic Caprica Six,in all her differant manifestations and disguises in the award-winning re-imagined Battlestar Galactica series from Ronald Moore and David Eick.. Helfer starred not only in the miniseries but also in all four series of the show and is presently in the final episodes which are being broadcast on the Sci Fi channel
As well as working hard on the series Helfer has had time to appear and participate in a number of projects, she played Farrah Fawcett Major in "Behind the Camera:The Unauthorized Story of Charlie's Angels" on NBC, as well as appearing in the movies Memory and Stephanie Jacobs
In 2008 Helfer joined the cast of "Burn Notice" the USA Network's hit series. Burn Notice is a sexy, action packed series about a black listed spy who is dumped in his hometown without money or resources. To make ends meet he uses his unique skills and training to help people in need ... mostly people who can't get help from the police, sounds a bit like The Equalizer. Helfer plays Carla a sleek, sexy, and lethal handler,.
Helfer also shot a pilot for Fox's upcoming drama pilot Inseparable. The show is described as a modern-day Jekyll and Hyde tale about a partially paralyzed forensic psychiatrist (Lloyd Owen) with a split personality whose alter ego is a charismatic criminal. Helfer plays a psychiatrist who evaluates suspects for the police. Helfer has also filmed a guest star role as Special Agent Alex Forrest in NBC's spy/action/comedy "Chuck" with Zachary Levi.
Tricia Helfer is on the cast list to appear in the movie Battlestar Galactica: The Plan scheduled for release in June 2009 and directed by Edward James Olmos.
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In "Phase One" Tricia Helfer is filming in Sudbury Ontario alongside Eric Roberts (Heroes) and Travis Van Winkle and tamara Feldman. "Phase One" is an indie thriller directed by Eric Wostenberg about drug testing on humans,Check out the free Wallpaper downloads of Tricia Helfer click here