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Patricia (Tricia) Helfer (born 2nd January 1974),
is a Canada|Canadian film and television actress
and a former Victoria's Secret model
(person)|model.

Helfer was born in the rural community of Donalda,
Alberta, Canada. She was raised on her family's
grain farm. At the age of 17, while standing in
line at a local movie theatre, she was
"discovered" by modelling agency scout Kelly
Streit. In 1992, she won Ford's Supermodel of the
World Contest and was subsequently signed to the
Elite Modeling Agency|Elite modeling agency.
Modelling clothes for Givenchy, Christian Dior,
Claude Montana and Emanuel Ungaro, Helfer has also
appeared on the covers of fashion magazines ELLE
(August 1993), Amica Italia (November 1996),
Cosmopolitan (magazine)|Cosmopolitan (July 1998),
and Vogue (magazine)|Vogue. She has done photo
assignments for Chanel's Cristalle perfume and
Victoria's Secret lingerie.

Helfer hosted a television fashion program Ooh La
La in Canada, before moving to New York City to
learn acting. She relocated to Los Angeles in 1996
to pursue a full-time film career. Apart from
starring in a number of fashion
documentary|documentaries, Helfer appeared on the
comedy short Eventual Wife, as Inga, in 2000. She
also co-starred as Sarah on the television series
Jeremiah and played the role of a model, Ashleigh
James, in the May 16, 2002 episode "The Hunger
Artist" on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. In
2003, Helfer played the female lead Eva in the
independent film White Rush. She also became a
noted beauty pageant judge for Miss Teen USA and
Miss USA.

Helfer appeared as a gynoid Cylon (Battlestar
Galactica)|Cylon agent, Number Six (Battlestar
Galactica)|Number Six, in the 2003 Sci Fi channel
(United States)|Sci Fi channel miniseries
Battlestar Galactica (2003)|Battlestar Galactica.
The miniseries, which was a Reboot
(continuity)|remake of the 1970s series Battlestar
Galactica (1978)|Battlestar Galactica,  was a huge
ratings success, due in part to the visually
attractive mind games between Number Six and
scientist Dr. Gaius Baltar; it has now become a
television series in which Helfer is a main cast
member. Early in 2004, Helfer was offered the role
depicting Farrah Fawcett in the NBC telemovie
Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of
'Charlie's Angels. She also regularly appeared in
photo shoots by Maxim (magazine)|Maxim magazine
and was the magazine's wall calendar girl for
2005.

Helfer has been married to lawyer Jonathen
Marshall since 2002.

==Filmography==

* Eventual Wife (2000)
* White Rush (2003)
* Battlestar Galactica (2003) mini-series
* Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of
'Charlie's Angels (2004)
* Battlestar Galactica (2004) television series

==External links==
* imdb name|id=1065454|name=Tricia Helfer
* tvtome person|id=76241|name=Tricia Helfer