Tricia Helfer is hot. Really, really hot. She's also in demand as an actress now that Battlestar Galactica is coming to an end. Helfer just inked a one-year talent deal with Fox. The network will likely place her in a starring role in a drama within the next year.While she's known to us as Six (or Caprica), it was her work in a pilot last season that got her noticed at Fox. She had a role in the drama pilot Them. Fox execs say that work, and her appearance in an indie flick called Walk All Over Me, won them over.
This is bittersweet news, really. Tricia Helfer is a spectacular actress and, on BSG, she has proven that her beauty is just secondary to her acting abilities. But BSG is such a smart, well-written show that anything else--especially some sort of procedural--seems beneath Helfer. I really hope Fox finds something to showcase her extraordinary talent. Otherwise, it's kind-of like seeing Nathan Fillion on Desperate Housewives. I'm happy that he's working, but sad that there isn't better stuff out there for him.
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4-09-2008 @ 3:34PM
Jesse said...
Joss Whedon's new show Dollhouse is on Fox. Tricia Helfer in another genre show wouldn't be a bad thing in my book.
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4-09-2008 @ 4:08PM
0megapart!cle said...
Absolutely! If she was cast in a major role in Dollhouse, and Dollhouse is as good as most of us hope, then that would be a great move for her, a great move for Fox, and a great move for Whedon!
4-10-2008 @ 10:55AM
rick cokely said...
If they cast her and Katee Sakhoff I might just be considered to think a Joss Whedon show might be palatable enough to watch. Once anyway.
4-09-2008 @ 4:27PM
Max said...
I don't think Fox hired her for her talent, they did it for her "talents"
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4-09-2008 @ 6:08PM
Simon Wakefield said...
Is Fringe fully cast as yet. Along with Dollhouse you would think those would be the best new shows for her to land on on the Fox Network
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4-09-2008 @ 6:22PM
keithnl said...
Well thats the "curse" of really great television. Just think of you're favourite show, those are probably the best roles that those actors will ever get to play.
Just look at poor old Sarah Michelle Gellar shuffling from one generic J-horror remake barely staying out of the STD market
Or Nathan Filllion or dozens more.
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4-09-2008 @ 8:59PM
cress d said...
I love Tricia Helfer. Tim-1 loves Boomer..I love Six. Glad she is getting a new series after BSG.
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4-10-2008 @ 8:15AM
Usama said...
She is, quite simply, awesome.
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