TRICIA HELFER — CHARLOTTE FROM LUCIFER

Mir Imad Ahmed
3 min readFeb 6, 2021

TRICIA HELFER — CHARLOTTE FROM LUCIFER

  1. Tricia Janine Helfer was born on April 11, 1974.
  2. She is a Canadian actress, voice actress, and former model.
  3. 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)
  4. Helfer was born in rural Donalda, Alberta, Canada, to Dennis and Elaine Helfer.
  5. She studied at William E. Hay Composite High School in Stettler, Alberta.
  6. She lived and worked on the family’s grain farm with her three sisters; Trena, Tammy, and Tara.
  7. 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.
  8. She is of German, English, Swedish and Norwegian descent.
  9. In 1992 she won Ford Models’ Supermodel of the World contest.
  10. She has appeared in ad campaigns for Ralph Lauren, Versace, Chanel, and Giorgio Armani.
  11. Helfer has walked for top fashion shows, such as Carolina Herrera, Christian Dior, Claude Montana, Givenchy, John Galliano, and Dolce & Gabbana.
  12. Helfer retired from fashion modeling in 2002 and claimed all her shoots since then are related to projects or product endorsements.
  13. Helfer relocated to Los Angeles in 2002 to pursue a full-time acting career.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. Concurrent with her role in Battlestar Galactica, Helfer began producing and hosting Canada’s Next Top Model on May 31, 2006.
  17. She appeared in Spiral and The Green Chain later the same year.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. Tricia Janine Helfer plays Goddess and Charlotte Richards in FOX’s TV series, Lucifer.
  23. 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.
  24. 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
  25. The actress has a net worth of $10 million.

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Mir Imad Ahmed

An expert developer, mentor, and coach. He is a software engineer by education and entrepreneur by profession.