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Tricia Janine Helfer (born April 11,
1974) is a Canadian actress and former model, best known for her role as
Number Six in the reimagined Battlestar Galactica miniseries and
television series, her role as "Carla" on Burn Notice, and for hosting the
first season of Canada's Next Top Model.
Helfer was born and raised 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 modeling agency scout Kelly Streit. She is of German, English, Swedish
and Norwegian descent.
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. Tricia retired from fashion modeling in 2002 and states that
all her shoots since then are related to projects or product endorsements.
She has appeared in ad campaigns, including Ralph Lauren, Versace, Chanel,
and Giorgio Armani. Helfer has walked for top fashion shows such as
Carolina Herrera, Christian Dior, Claude Montana, Givenchy, John Galliano,
and Dolce & Gabbana. Helfer has graced the covers of Flare, Amica, ELLE,
Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, and Vogue, among others. 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. She also posed nude for the February 2007 issue of Playboy.
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 on Battlestar Galactica (see section below).
In 2004, Helfer played Farrah Fawcett in the NBC telemovie Behind the
Camera: The Unauthorized Story of 'Charlie's Angels'. 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.
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. 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, Grace
Park. She also starred in the episode "Roadkill" on the second season of
the American paranormal drama TV series Supernatural.
Tricia will make an appearance on the CBS' Two and a Half Men, TVGuide.com
has confirmed. As first reported by Entertainment Weekly, Helfer will play
a pal 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 the boys' house.
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. Moore and 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 unique nature of the
Number Six character - there are in fact many different "copies" of Number
Six with distinct and separate personalities - Helfer has actually played
numerous different, if related, 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 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.
Helfer appears as Chuck’s new season 2 secret agent "handler" in the NBC
(NBC Universal) series Chuck and as Michael Westen's new season 2 secret
agent "handler" in the USA Network (NBC Universal) series Burn Notice as
"Carla."
Helfer appears as herself in Old 97's music video for Dance with Me. In
the video she is sought through an exclusive nightclub, via fantasy, by an
imaginative fan.
She guest stars in "Resonance," the second episode of Warehouse 13 as FBI
Agent Bonnie Belski on Syfy.
She also voices Veronica Dare in Halo 3: ODST and will also voice Sarah
Kerrigan in StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty. She will also appear as the
Queen of Blades in the game's expansion sets, Heart of the Swarm and
Legacy of the Void.
She voices EDI, the ship-borne artificial intelligence aboard the Normandy
SR-2, in Mass Effect 2.
Helfer appeared as a special guest star in the pilot episode of Fox's 2009
mid-season series Human Target in which she plays the key female role in
the episode.
Helfer plays the Black Cat vocally in The Spectacular Spider-Man. She
reprises her role as Black Cat in Spider-Man: Web of Shadows.
Helfer is married to Johnathan Marshall, a lawyer whom she met at a mutual
friend's birthday party. |
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A Beginner's Guide to Endings
(2010)
Open House (2010) (.... Lila
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty (2010) (VG) .... Sarah Kerrigan
The Dealership (2009) (TV) .... Rachel Carson
Mass Effect 2 (2010) (VG) (voice) .... EDI
"Human Target" .... Stephanie Dobbs (1 episode, 2010)
- Pilot (2010) TV episode .... Stephanie Dobbs
"The Super Hero Squad Show" .... Sif (1 episode, 2010)
- O, Brother! (2010) TV episode (voice) .... Sif
Hidden Crimes (2009) (TV) .... Julia Carver
"Two and a Half Men" .... Gail (1 episode, 2009)
- Gorp. Fnark. Schmegle. (2009) TV episode .... Gail
The Plan (2009) (V) (also archive footage) .... Number Six / Shelly
Godfrey
... aka Battlestar Galactica: The Plan (USA: video box title)
Halo 3: ODST (2009) (VG) (voice) .... Dare
Green Lantern: First Flight (2009) (V) (voice) .... Boodikka
"Warehouse 13" .... Agent Bonnie Belski (1 episode, 2009)
- Resonance (2009) TV episode .... Agent Bonnie Belski
"Chuck" .... Agent Alex Forrest (1 episode, 2009)
- Chuck Versus the Broken Heart (2009) TV episode .... Agent Alex
Forrest
"Battlestar Galactica" .... Number Six / ... (73 episodes,
2004-2009)
... aka BSG (USA: promotional abbreviation)
- Daybreak: Part 2 (2009) TV episode .... Number Six / Caprica
- Daybreak: Part 1 (2009) TV episode .... Number Six / Caprica
- Islanded in a Stream of Stars (2009) TV episode .... Number Six /
Caprica
- Someone to Watch Over Me (2009) TV episode .... Number Six / Sonja
- Deadlock (2009) TV episode .... Number Six / Caprica
(68 more)
"The Spectacular Spider-Man" .... Black Cat / ... (3 episodes,
2008-2009)
- Opening Night (2009) TV episode (voice) .... Felicia Hardy / Black
Cat
- Accomplices (2009) TV episode (voice) .... Black Cat
- Persona (2008) TV episode (voice) .... Black Cat
"Burn Notice" .... Carla (9 episodes, 2007-2009)
- Lesser Evil (2009) TV episode .... Carla
- Sins of Omission (2009) TV episode .... Carla
- Hot Spot (2009) TV episode .... Carla
- Do No Harm (2009) TV episode .... Carla
- Good Soldier (2008) TV episode .... Carla
(4 more)
Spider-Man: Web of Shadows (2008) (VG) (voice) .... Black Cat
Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath (2008) (VG) .... Kilian Qatar
"Late Show with David Letterman" .... Number Six / ... (1 episode,
2008)
... aka Late Show Backstage (USA: title for episodes with guest
hosts)
... aka Letterman (Australia)
... aka The Late Show (USA: informal short title)
- Brooke Shields/Seth Meyers/The Gutter Twins (2008) TV episode
(uncredited) .... Number Six / Top Ten List Presenter
Inseparable (2008) (TV) .... Rae Wicks
Battlestar Galactica: Razor (2007) (TV) .... Number Six / Gina
Inviere
... aka Razor (USA: short title)
Walk All Over Me (2007) .... Celene
The Green Chain (2007) .... Leila Cole
Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars (2007) (VG) .... Kilian Qatar -
Nod General
"Supernatural" .... Molly McNamara (1 episode, 2007)
- Roadkill (2007) TV episode .... Molly McNamara
Spiral (2007/I) .... Sasha
Them (2007) (TV) .... Naomi Tyler Moore
Memory (2006/II) .... Stephanie Jacobs
The Genius Club (2006) .... Ally Simon
"The Collector" .... Janis Eisner (1 episode, 2006)
- The V.J. (2006) TV episode .... Janis Eisner
Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of 'Charlie's Angels'
(2004) (TV) .... Farrah Fawcett-Majors
"Battlestar Galactica" (2003) TV mini-series .... Number Six
... aka Battlestar Galactica: The Miniseries (USA: long title)
White Rush (2003) .... Eva
"CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" .... Ashleigh James (1 episode,
2002)
... aka CSI: Las Vegas (South Africa: English title: informal
alternative title) (USA: syndication title)
... aka C.S.I. (USA: short title)
... aka CSI: Weekends (USA: promotional title)
... aka Les experts (Canada: French title)
- The Hunger Artist (2002) TV episode .... Ashleigh James
"Jeremiah" .... Sarah (1 episode, 2002)
- The Long Road (2002) TV episode .... Sarah
Eventual Wife (2000) .... Inga |
