TRICIA HELFER — CHARLOTTE FROM LUCIFER
3 min readFeb 6, 2021
TRICIA HELFER — CHARLOTTE FROM LUCIFER
- Tricia Janine Helfer was born on April 11, 1974.
- She is a Canadian actress, voice actress, and former model.
- She is best known for playing the Cylon model Number Six in Ronald D. Moore’s re-imagined Battlestar Galactica series (2004–2009) and voicing Sarah Kerrigan in the StarCraft video games (2010–2015). She played Charlotte Richards/Mom on the FOX series Lucifer (2016–2018)
- Helfer was born in rural Donalda, Alberta, Canada, to Dennis and Elaine Helfer.
- She studied at William E. Hay Composite High School in Stettler, Alberta.
- She lived and worked on the family’s grain farm with her three sisters; Trena, Tammy, and Tara.
- She was discovered at age 17 by a modeling agency scout while standing in line at a movie theatre with a relative of hers, Crystal.
- She is of German, English, Swedish and Norwegian descent.
- In 1992 she won Ford Models’ Supermodel of the World contest.
- She has appeared in ad campaigns for Ralph Lauren, Versace, Chanel, and Giorgio Armani.
- Helfer has walked for top fashion shows, such as Carolina Herrera, Christian Dior, Claude Montana, Givenchy, John Galliano, and Dolce & Gabbana.
- Helfer retired from fashion modeling in 2002 and claimed all her shoots since then are related to projects or product endorsements.
- Helfer relocated to Los Angeles in 2002 to pursue a full-time acting career.
- Her first acting assignment was a co-starring role as Sarah on the television series Jeremiah. She later played a model named Ashleigh James on the May 16, 2002, episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (“The Hunger Artist”). In 2002, she played “Eva” in the independent film White Rush.
- In 2003, she played Number Six on Battlestar Galactica. In 2004, she portrayed Farrah Fawcett in the telefilm Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Charlie’s Angels.
- Concurrent with her role in Battlestar Galactica, Helfer began producing and hosting Canada’s Next Top Model on May 31, 2006.
- She appeared in Spiral and The Green Chain later the same year.
- In 2014 she played Molly Parker on ABC’s Killer Women, a remake of the Argentinian drama Mujeres Asesinas, with producer Sofia Vergara.[8] Also in 2014, she played Viondra Denniger, the steward and captain’s wife of the titular starship in the miniseries Ascension on its long journey carrying people to populate a new world. Helfer voiced Sonya Blade in the fighting game, Mortal Kombat X, which was released in April 2015.
- In 2015, she appeared in the series finale of Falling Skies as the Espheni Queen, the leader of the alien race that had invaded Earth and devastated humanity. She also played Louise, a woman attending a doll convention, in the web series Con Man.
- In 2016, Helfer was added to the main cast for the second season of the Fox series Lucifer, playing the vessel of the titular character’s mother.
- In 2019, she was added to the main cast for the fourth season of the SyFy series Van Helsing, playing Dracula, the Dark One, who is the ruler of the vampire species.
- Tricia Janine Helfer plays Goddess and Charlotte Richards in FOX’s TV series, Lucifer.
- In 2003, Helfer married Jonathan Marshall, a lawyer whom she met at a mutual friend’s birthday party. They separated in May 2017 and Helfer filed for divorce in January 2018, citing irreconcilable differences. The divorce was settled in 2019.
- She has four artificial discs in her back and two in her neck, resulting from an incident in which a piece of luggage was dropped on her head while sitting on a commercial airliner, and two in her lower back from mishaps while doing her own stunts
- The actress has a net worth of $10 million.