Tricia Helfer

A former Canadian farm girl who found fame as a highly advanced cyborg intent on destroying the human race, Donalda, Alberta native Tricia Helfer was discovered by a modeling agent while still in high school and wasted no time packing her bags for New York City. It wasn't long after arriving in the Big Apple that Helfer won the "Ford Supermodel of the Year" award, with subsequent campaigns for Giorgio Armani, Chanel, and Ralph Lauren soon making her one of the most visible models in North America. Later, during an on-camera acting class intended to train her as a fashion correspondent for Canadian television, the prolific catwalk queen realized that her true ambition was to become a dramatic actress. In order to pursue her passion Helfer set her sight on Los Angeles, with an early appearance on the Showtime's sci-fi series Jeremiah serving as both her acting debt and a sneak preview of her future success in the genre. While that particular series would fail to find a steady audience, Helfer's performance as seductive cylon Number Six on the Sci-Fi Channel's enthusiastically-received resurrection of Battlestar Galactica the following year would no doubt prove an essential component to the show's enduring success. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide