Tricia Helfer hasn’t quite become a bona fide sci-fi babe, but what the hey, she’s one of the stars of, probably the most high-profile sci-fi show on TV at the moment, Battlestar Galactica. Tell me that show would work better without Tricia Helfer’s uber sexy Number Six. You know what would have added to Tricia’s sci-fi bonafides? If her show Them, a sci-fi/aliens invasion show, had gotten on the air. But oh well. BSG alone more than qualifies.

A short bio from Wikipedia:

Tricia Helfer (born April 11, 1974), is a Canadian model and actress best known for her major role as Number Six in the Battlestar Galactica re-imagined series.

Helfer was born in the rural community of Donalda in Stettler County, Alberta. She was raised on her family’s grain farm and at the age of 17, while standing in line at a local movie theatre, was discovered by modeling agency scout Kelly Streit.

While working in New York as a model, Helfer hosted a Canadian television fashion program Ooh La La. She relocated to Los Angeles in 2002 to pursue a full-time film career. Her first acting assignment was a co-starring role as Sarah on the television series Jeremiah.

In the fall of 2003, Helfer was offered the role depicting Farrah Fawcett in the NBC telemovie Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of ‘Charlie’s Angels’. She also regularly appeared in photo shoots by Maxim magazine and was the magazine’s wall calendar girl for 2005. She was ranked #57 on the Maxim’s Hot 100 Women of 2007. Concurrent with her role in Battlestar Galactica, Helfer began producing and hosting Canada’s Next Top Model on May 31, 2006. In 2006, Helfer appeared in the motion pictures Spiral and The Green Chain. She appeared in Maxim Magazine in the fall of 2006.

In October 2006, it was announced that Helfer would not return to host the second season of Canada’s Next Top Model in order to concentrate on her work on Battlestar Galactica. Helfer also played a major role in Electronic Arts Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars, as a character named Kilian Qatar, along with her Battlestar Galactica co-star, Grace Park. She also starred in the episode “Roadkill” on the second season of the American paranormal drama TV series Supernatural.