Tricia Janine Helfer (born April 11, 1974 in Donalda, Alberta) is a Canadian-American model, actress and science-fiction mainstay. She is perhaps best-known for her role as humanoid Cylon Number Six on Ronald D. Moore's re-imagined Battlestar Galactica, for which she garnered critical acclaim and achieved status as a science-fiction icon.
She became a US citizen in 2011.
Roles
- 2002 Jeremiah as Sarah
- 2002 CSI as Ashleigh James
- 2003-2009 Battlestar Galactica as Number Six
- 2012 Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome as Humanoid Cylon Prototype (voice, uncredited)
- 2006 The Collector as Janis Eisner
- 2006 The Genius Club as Ally Simon
- 2007 Spiral as Sasha
- 2007 Supernatural as Molly McNamara
- 2007 Command & Conquer: Tiberium Wars as Kilian Qatar
- 2007-2009 Burn Notice as Carla
- 2008 Spider-Man: Web of Shadows as Felicia Hardy/Black Cat (voice)
- 2008-2009 The Spectacular Spider-Man
- 2013 Marvel Heroes
- 2009 Chuck as Alex Forrest
- 2009 Warehouse 13 as Bonnie Belski
- 2009 Green Lantern: First Flight as Boodikka (voice)
- 2009 Halo 3: ODST as Captain Veronica Dare (voice)
- 2009-2011 Two and a Half Men as Gail
- 2010 The Superhero Squad Show as Sif (voice)
- 2010 Human Target as Stephanie Dobbs
- 2010 Mass Effect 2 as EDI (voice)
- 2012 Mass Effect 3
- 2010 StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty as Sarah Kerrigan (voice)
- 2010 Dark Blue as Alex Rice
- 2010 Lie to Me as Naomi Russell
- 2010 The Whole Truth as Bitsie Katz
- 2011 No Ordinary Family as Sophie Adler
- 2011 Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated as Aphrodite / Amanda Smyth (voice)
- 2011 Franklin & Bash as Brett Caiman
- 2012 The Firm as Alex Clark
- 2012 Criminal Minds as Izzy Rogers
- 2012 TRON: Uprising as The Grid (voice)
- 2012 Husbands as Pillow Girl #2
- 2013 Community as Lauren
- 2014 Killer Women as Molly Parker
- 2014 Spun Out as Claudia
- 2014 The Librarians as Karen Willis
- 2014 Ascension as Viondra Denniger
- 2015-2016 Suits as Evan Smith
- 2015 Mortal Kombat X as Sonya Blade (voice)
- 2015 Key & Peele as Agent Jackson
- 2015 Falling Skies as The Espheni Queen (voice)
- 2015 Con Man as Louise
- 2015 Rick and Morty as Donna Gueterman / Federation Robot (voice)
- 2016 Robot Chicken as Kris Munroe / Ms. Delacroix / Colette (voice)
- 2016 Powers as Angela Lange
- 2016-2018, 2020 Lucifer as Charlotte Richards / "Mum"
- 2019 SWAT as Elle Trask
- 2019 Creepshow as Lydia Layne
- 2019-2021 Van Helsing as Dracula
- 2019 Bombshell as Alisyn Camerota
Tropes
- Dyeing for Your Art: She initially bleached her hair to play the various Sixes in Battlestar Galactica. When the process started to damage her hair she switched to using wigs instead. This allowed the crew to introduce more individual Sixes with different hair colors, a few of whom have Tricia's undyed hair color.
- Ink-Suit Actor:
- She provides both the voice and likeness for Veronica Dare in Halo 3: ODST.
- The mobile platform that EDI pilots in Mass Effect 3 counts as well.
- Ms. Fanservice: Helfer is a model as well as an actress, and is absolutely gorgeous. As a result she's been cast as Ms Fanservice in just about everything from Battlestar Galactica to Chuck. It might be easier to say what she isn't Ms Fanservice in. She has also modeled along with her acting career.
- No Stunt Double: Has been known to do her own stunts; this resulted in two artificial discs in her lower back from stunt mishaps (Tricia also has four artificial disks in her back and two in her neck, after a piece of luggage fell onto her while in an airplane).
- Statuesque Stunner: She's 5'10 and tends to tower over her co-stars.
