Canadian actress and former model Tricia Helfer is one of Hollywood's rising acting talents, best known for her portrayal of humanoid Cylon Number Six on Syfy's critically acclaimed Battlestar Galactica. More recently, Helfer has starred in e.g. Andrew Paquin’s Open House and can currently be seen as Alex Clark on NBC's The Firm. Helfer is also an active benefactor of animal and environmental causes.
Tricia and best friend Katee Sackhoff's charity initiative, The Acting Outlaws.
… a clip from The Hollywood Reporter, in which Tricia talks about the differences between onscreen acting and voice work and how she prepared for the role of Alex Clark in The Firm:
Tricia talks about her role in TRON: Uprising, how she got it and doing voice work in general. From YouTube:
Tricia Helfer appeared on The Morning Show on Global Toronto yesterday morning to talk about The Firm, for which she is currently filming new episodes in the area. Her interview below:
Great new interview with Tricia Helfer from Marvel.com in which Tricia talks about voicing Black Cat in the cartoon series The Spectacular Spider-Man and the Spider-Man: Web of Shadows video game, interacting with her fans, philanthropy and more. Full article under the cut.
The Marvel Life: Tricia Helfer
We chatted with the ‘Battlestar Galactica’ star about voicing Black Cat, geeking out over ‘Game of Thrones’, cats and more!
By Blake Garris
Actress and former model Tricia Helfer may be best known for playing Number Six on Battlestar Galactica as well as numerous cameos on hit shows, but when she’s not acting she spends her time doing charity work rescuing cats in need.
So it’s no surprise that she was the choice to play the voice of Black Cat in the Spectacular Spider-Man animated series as well as the Spider-Man: Web of Shadows video game. We recently had the opportunity to sit down with Ms. Helfer to talk about all these topics, her new show on NBC, and how she may have been a little too seductive as a voice in a children’s cartoon.
Marvel.com: You’ve voiced Black Cat in a few Spider-Man projects. What was that like?
Tricia Helfer: Yes, I was the voice of Black Cat in Spectacular Spider-Man and also in Spider-Man: Web of Shadows, the video game. It was great.
Actually I have a little funny story about Spectacular Spider-Man. I’ve done two episodes and the first time I did it, it was sort of right around the time that I did the video game. And I don’t know how I missed this note that it was a morning kid’s show, but I guess I’d been doing some video games and a lot of the [Black Cat] lines were very suggestive in their own way — as Black Cat can be. And I was making her very purrish and sexy, but nobody said anything!
And then I read an article that came up about it when it premiered and it said something about Tricia Helfer and her Black Cat turning a lot of 10-year-old boys into puberty. And I went, “It’s a cartoon! Oh my gosh!” So I went back and when I did the second episode I told the producers, I was like, “I was being a little sexier than I would have if I had known it was for kids.” But they had a good laugh over that.
Check out this interview with Tricia Helfer, Edward James Olmos, Tahmoh Penikett and Richard Hatch by the Star Wars Report from the September Dragon*Con. Below is Tricia’s interview excerpted, but Battlestar Galactica will want to listen to the full audio over at StarWarsReport.com.
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New “Ask Tricia” video from Tricia Helfer via her official site TriciaHelfer.com. In this video, Tricia talks about how she prepared for the role of “Head Six” on Syfy’s Battlestar Galactica, playing the “good girl” versus the “bad girl” and how her farmer background influences her everyday life. Courtesy of TriciaHelfer.com:
Tricia regularly answers fan questions online via her “Ask Tricia” video series. If you have a question for Tricia, don’t hesitate to send it over to asktricia@triciahelfer.com. Please me mindful that Tricia’s web team moderates all questions before they reach her, and not all questions will be answered. Good luck!
Another new “Ask Tricia” video from Tricia Helfer via her official site TriciaHelfer.com. In this video, Tricia talks about Germany, fitness and growing up on the family farm in Canada. Courtesy of TriciaHelfer.com:
Tricia regularly answers fan questions online via her “Ask Tricia” video series. If you have a question for Tricia, don’t hesitate to send it over to asktricia@triciahelfer.com. Please me mindful that Tricia’s web team moderates all questions before they reach her, and not all questions will be answered. Good luck!
Tricia Helfer’s official site has just published yet another Q&A video with Tricia in which she answers fan questions sent to her via her website. In this video, Tricia talks about the casting process for TV, her past and upcoming voice work and animal cruelty. She also confirms that she is not involved in the upcoming Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome pilot. Courtesy of TriciaHelfer.com:
Tricia’s official site is still looking for new fan questions for Tricia to answer — if you have one, don’t hesitate to send it over to asktricia@triciahelfer.com. Please me mindful that Tricia’s web team moderates all questions before they reach her, and not all questions will be answered. Good luck!
Tricia’s official site is still looking for new fan questions for Tricia to answer — if you have one, don’t hesitate to send it over to asktricia@triciahelfer.com. Please me mindful that Tricia’s web team moderates all questions before they reach her, and not all questions will be answered. Good luck!
Check out this oven fresh “Ask Tricia” Q&A video from Tricia Helfer’s official site, in which Tricia answers fan questions sent to her via email. In this video, Tricia talks about how she got interested in motorcycling, working with Blizzard on the StarCraft video games, and what (if anything) she would change about Battlestar Galactica. Via TriciaHelfer.com:
Tricia’s official site is still looking for new fan questions for Tricia to answer — if you have one, don’t hesitate to send it over to asktricia@triciahelfer.com. Please me mindful that Tricia’s web team moderates all questions before they reach her. Not all questions will be answered. Good luck!
Tricia Helfer Continues Crusade For Gulf Restoration
IRVINE, Calif. — Sci-fi fans best know Tricia Helfer for her role as “Number Six” in the SyFy series Battlestar Galactica, and now as she promotes a new outdoors awareness campaign, the talented actress is continuing her green campaign for Gulf restoration.
“Being from Alberta, I know first hand the incredible beauty that is there for the opportunities for those people who are free spirits and travelers who like to get out and experience things like horseback riding, canoeing, and hiking,” Tricia told AccessHollywood.com while taking a breather from a virtual heli-yoga session in Irvine, Calif. to help promote tourism and herald the untouched beauty of the Canadian province.
“It’s raw and open. You can go up there on a hike and not see another person,” the actress continued while speaking from the Travel Alberta event. “You get in tune with nature. The amount of wildlife you can see and the amount of activities you can do, people just don’t know about it down here.”
Tricia has also become an activist for raising restoration awareness and funds following 2010’s Gulf Coast disaster that resulted in millions of gallons of crude oil released into and beyond the waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
In response to the crisis, she and fellow Battlestar Galactica alum Katee Sackhoff formed the Acting Outlaws to further their personal crusade to help restore the Gulf. With the one-year mark of the environmental catastrophe this week, Tricia is still persevering to keep this issue an issue in peoples’ minds.
“I just got an email form the Gulf Restoration Network, which was the charity we partnered with, about where we are a year later after the spill. It’s shocking how much is still left to be done yet,” she explained.
Sackhoff, Helfer rev up awareness with Acting Outlaws charity ride
On Battlestar Galactica, Tricia Helfer and Katee Sackhoff played characters on opposite sides in a war, with Helfer starring as the seductive Cylon “Number Six” and Sackhoff playing fighter pilot Kara “Starbuck” Thrace. Each character evolved and became more complex during the run of the 2004-2009 series.
Off-screen, Helfer and Sackhoff’s friendship also evolved, and they’re now biker buddies with a purpose. The two formed Acting Outlaws, a ride-for-charity initiative. They recently completed a Los Angeles-to-New Orleans road trip to raise money for and awareness of the cleanup from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
“When the oil spill happened, we were really looking for a way to help as much as possible,” Sackhoff said during a phone interview that took place during a Dallas stop. “We knew … that as soon as the cap went on, people were going to forget what was going on. Ninety-eight percent of the news coverage during the oil spill was dedicated to the oil spill, and now it’s about 2 percent.” Sackhoff says that the oil is still there, it’s just on the Gulf floor now. “The ramifications are there, they’re going to be there so long, and we don’t know what they’re going to be.”
The duo is aware, and people have pointed out to them, that by driving motorcycles halfway across the country, they’re consuming fuel themselves, although they averaged a good 46 miles per gallon on their BMW R1200GS bikes. And they acknowledge that they both currently drive cars that aren’t environmentally friendly. But one of their goals is change, in themselves and in others. They add, however, that immediate change isn’t always a good thing.
“It actually hurts the environment more to just get rid of a gas-guzzling car and buy a hybrid,” Sackhoff says. “You need to drive the car you have as long as you can.”
Adds Helfer: “Just to jump on a bandwagon and throw out a car to get a new car doesn’t really help. Our next cars will be hybrids, more than likely.”
Episode 1.17 - "Chapter Seventeen" Airs Saturday, May 19 at 9/8c on NBC
Mitch (Josh Lucas) represents a young woman charged with solicitation but he soon discovers she has a much more dangerous secret. Abby (Molly Parker) and Claire (Natasha Calis) take a trip to Kentucky to visit Abby's parents, but is reconciliation possible after all these years? Tricia Helfer guest stars.
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Active & Upcoming Projects
Film: A Beginner's Guide to Endings (2010)
Debuted Sep 2010 at the Toronto IFF. Director: Jonathan Sobol Genre: Comedy, Drama Role: Miranda News | Info | IMDb | Official Site | Photos
Film: Bloodwork (2011)
Coming soon to Region 1 DVD. Director: Eric Wostenberg Genre: Thriller Role: Dr. Wilcox News | Info | IMDb | Official Site | Photos
Film: Open House (2010)
Out on Region 1 DVD & Blu-Ray. Director: Andrew Paquin Genre: Horror, Thriller Role: Lila News | Info | IMDb | Official Site | Photos
Film (TV): Mistletoe Over Manhattan (2011)
Premiered Nov 6 on Hallmark. Director: John Bradshaw Genre: Christmas, Romance Role: Lucy Martel News | Info | IMDb | Official Site | Photos
TV (Pilot): Scent of the Missing (2012)
In post-production. Genre: Drama Network: TNT Role: Allison "Ally" News | Info | IMDb | Official Site | Photos
TV: Criminal Minds (2012)
Season 7 finale airs May 16. Genre: Crime, Drama Network: CBS Role: Izzy Rogers (S7 finale guest) News | Info | IMDb | Official Site | Photos
TV: Dark Blue (2010)
S2 complete; canceled. Genre: Crime, Drama Network: TNT Role: FBI Agent Alex Rice News | Info | IMDb | Official Site | Photos
TV: Franklin & Bash (2011)
Episode 1.10 aired Aug 3. Genre: Comedy, Drama, Legal Network: TNT Role: Brett Caiman (S1E10 guest) News | Info | IMDb | Official Site | Photos
TV: No Ordinary Family (2011)
Episode 1.17 aired Mar 1. Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi Network: ABC Role: Sophie (S1E17 guest) News | Info | IMDb | Official Site | Photos
TV: The Firm (2012)
Season 1 Saturdays on NBC. Genre: Drama, Legal, Thriller Network: NBC Role: Alex Clark (S1 recurring guest) News | Info | IMDb | Official Site | Photos
MV: The Black Keys "Howlin' for You" - IMDb
SF: PostHuman - IMDb
TV: Scooby Doo! Mystery Incorporated - IMDb
TV: The Super Hero Squad Show - IMDb
TV: TRON: Uprising - IMDb
VG: Mass Effect 2 - IMDb
VG: Mass Effect 3 - IMDb
VG: StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm - IMDb
VG: StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty - IMDb
Acting Outlaws:
In August 2010, Tricia Helfer and best friend and former Battlestar Galactica co-star Katee Sackhoff founded the charity company The Acting Outlaws. With periodical causes of choice, the purpose of the company is to raise funds and awareness for causes Tricia and Katee find important to them. For details on the company and how to participate in advancing the ladies' causes of choice, please visit www.actingoutlaws.org.
Besides an actress and former model, Tricia is also an avid animal rights supporter and environmentalist. Please visit some of the below websites for more information on Tricia's supported causes and charities.
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Debuted Sep 2010 at the Toronto IFF.
Coming soon to Region 1 DVD.
Out on Region 1 DVD & Blu-Ray.
Premiered Nov 6 on Hallmark.
In post-production.
S2 complete; canceled.
Episode 1.10 aired Aug 3.
Episode 1.17 aired Mar 1.
Season 1 Saturdays on NBC.
Episode 9.01 aired Sep 19.
