Tricia Helfer
Birth name: Tricia Janine Helfer
Birth place: Donalda, Alberta, Canada
Birthday: April 11, 1974
Profession: actor, model
Year active: 1992-present
Current residence: Manhattan
This super model turned actress was raised on her family’s grain farm and caught the eye of a modeling agency scout Kelly Streit.
In 1992, she won Ford Models’ Supermodel of the World Contest and was subsequently signed to the Elite Model Management and later to Trump Model Management. She has been on the cover page of magazines like cosmopolitan, ELLe, Marie Claire, Vogue, among others. She has also walked the ramp for agencies like Ralph Lauren, Chanel, and Giorgio Armani. She has also been ranked #57 on the Maxim’s Hot 100 Women of 2007.
In 2002, she decided to take up acting as her full time career. Her television assignment was “Jeremiah”. In 2003, she played the lead in an independent movie “White Rush”. She has also worked in movies like “Spiral” and “The Green Chain”.
Helfer is probably best known for her role as Number Six; a Cylon who is the first one to undergo human feelings, in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica miniseries and television series.
Tricia is married to Johnathan Marshall, who is an entertainment lawyer in Los Angeles.
