Canadian born Victoria’s Secret model Tricia Helfer is Number 6, Sci-Fi channel’s sexy cylon in their new version of Battlestar Galactica. She was the 1992 Ford Supermodel of the World winner and has graced the covers of such magazines as Elle, Amica Italia and Cosmopolitan UK. She 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 Giorgio Armani, Oil of Olay and Saks Fifth Avenue.
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.: Crime Scene Investigation, and appears in the comedy short Eventual Wife, seen on HBO/Cinemax and on the AtomFilms Web site. Helfer lives in Manhattan.