Tricia Helfer was a blonde pinup beauty from the early 2000s as she appeared in several movies and TV shows as well as racy magazine covers.
The Canadian first worked as a model in the 1990s as she posed for Versace, Chanel and Giorgio Armani.
Next came the cover of ELLE, Cosmopolitan and Vogue, then she did Maxim and Stuff magazines, and was on the February 2007 cover of Playboy.
Then in 2002, she moved to Los Angeles to find work as an actress.
Helfer found fame for her role as Number Six in the science fiction series Battlestar Galactica which aired from 2003 until 2009.
The thespian also portrayed the wife of God in the series Lucifer from 2016 until 2021 and had a recurring role on the sitcom Two And A Half Men opposite Charlie Sheen.
See her now at 51 in a fresh Instagram photo from this month.
Tricia Helfer found fame for her role as Number Six in the science fiction series Battlestar Galactica which aired from 2003 until 2009
Helfer was born in rural Donalda in Alberta, Canada.
The tall high school student was discovered at age 17 by a modeling agency scout while standing in line at a movie theatre.
In 1992, she won Ford Models' Supermodel of the World contest.
Helfer has walked for top fashion shows, such as Carolina Herrera, Christian Dior, Claude Montana, Givenchy, John Galliano and Dolce & Gabbana.
And she has also appeared on the covers of ELLE, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire and Vogue, among others.
She then took off her clothes for racy photo shoots with Stuff and Maxim magazines and was Maxim's wall calendar girl for 2005.
Helfer was also featured in just her underwear for the February 2007 cover of Hugh Hefner's Playboy magazine.
The Canadian first worked as a model in the 1990s as she worked for Versace, Chanel and Giorgio Armani. Next came the cover of ELLE, Cosmopolitan and Vogue
Her acting career began when she was in her twenties and included tons of projects, mostly TV shows.
Her first acting assignment was a co-starring role as Sarah on the television series Jeremiah.
She later played a model named Ashleigh James in a 2002 episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
In 2002, she played Eva in the independent film White Rush. In 2003, she played Number Six on Battlestar Galactica.
Then she portrayed Farrah Fawcett in the telefilm Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Charlie's Angels in 2004, even re-creating Fawcett's famous red swimsuit pin-up poster.
Then she was on the February 2007 cover of Playboy
On the cover of Stuff
Helfer moved into reality TV as she began producing and hosting Canada's Next Top Model in 2006.
She appeared in Spiral and The Green Chain later the same year.
Helfer also played a major role in Electronic Arts' video game Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars.
Then she had a big hit on her hands when she popped up on the hilarious sitcom Two and a Half Men.
She starred as beautiful Gail, the best friend of Charlie Sheen's fiancée Chelsea, who was played by Jennifer Taylor.
Helfer appeared in an episode of the series Chuck, and as Michael Westen's nemesis in Burn Notice as Carla Baxter.
The actress was then on Jerry Bruckheimer's Dark Blue as FBI Special Agent Alex Rice.
In October 2010, she made a guest appearance on Lie to Me.
In November 2011, she starred in the romantic Hallmark TV movie Mistletoe Over Manhattan.
She was also on Criminal Minds, in which she led a team of bank-robbing serial killers.
In 2015, she landed the role of Espheni Queen in the series finale of Falling Skies.
In 2016, Helfer was added to the main cast for the second season of the Fox series Lucifer.
In 2015 and 2016, she played a recurring role as Evan Smith, a corporate attorney in the USA network series Suits.
She was added to the main cast for the fourth season of Van Helsing in 2019; she played Dracula, the Dark One.
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.
These days Helfer is often seen on social media. This month the beauty posed with her cat.