Tricia Helfer

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Portrays:	Number Six; Shelly Godfrey; Gina
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Overview

Victoria's Secret model Tricia Helfer was born on April 11, 1974 in Donalda, Alberta, Canada. Started modeling at 17. Left home to start modeling right before her 18th birthday and competed in the Ford Supermodel of the World contest when she was 18. Tricia was "discovered" in a small town movie theatre line by a modeling agent. Tricia won the 1992 Ford Supermodel of the World winner and former Elite model has graced the covers of such magazines as Elle, Amica Italia and Cosmopolitan UK, and has walked the runways for Christian Dior, Givenchy, Claude Montana, Emanuel Ungaro and other top fashion designers. Besides Victoria's Secret, she has appeared in advertisements for clients including Giorgio Armani, Oil of Olay and Saks Fifth Avenue.

Biographical Notes

Started acting in 2002 after taking night classes for a year and a half in New York, while she was still modeling. After doing correspondent work for the Canadian style/fashion TV-magazine series Ooh La La, Helfer gained attention as an actress when she played the lead female role of Sarah, the hero's love interest, in the two-hour premiere of the Showtime series Jeremiah. She later memorably played a teen model who tries to cut off her own face in an episode of the hit series C.S.I. and starred as Farrah Fawcett-Majors in the 2004 telefilm Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Charlie's Angels. Helfer, who can be seen in the modeling documentaries Catwalk and Unzipped, also appears in the comedy short Eventual Wife, seen on HBO/Cinemax and on the AtomFilms Web site.

Beginning in the spring of 2006, Helfer will host the reality series Canada's Next Top Model (a spin-off of America's Next Top Model).

Although the character Number Six has platinum blonde hair, Tricia is a natural brunette. Originally, her own hair was dyed white. However, this eventually resulted in her hair "breaking off in chunks an inch long", so by the 8th or 8th episode of season 2, she switched to a wig, and played Gina with honey-blonde hair.

Before Filming Battlestar Galactica

According to an interview in Starburst magazine, Helfer was originally very confused on how to portray a humanoid robot, so Edward James Olmos told her to watch the sci-fi classic Blade Runner (which Olmos co-starred in), which also features humanoid robots, called "replicants". Helfer said that watching Blade Runner greatly informed her on how to play her role.