Battlestar Galactica star Tricia Helfer is taking her career to a whole new level by joining the OnlyFans platform. The 52-year-old actress intends to use the adult social platform to showcase her 'fun and flirty side,' while also enjoying the element of surprise.
'I enjoy shocking a little bit,' Helfer, who posed topless for Playboy's February 2007 issue and is known for other risqué magazine covers, told People magazine.
She soft-launched her OnlyFans page about a month ago and is now going public with her decision 'to take the stigma off a little bit,' she explained.
'At my age, I am in my "do what I want" phase of life. I'm tired of being told what to do and how to do it. I'm looking at it as something to have fun with and something that I can be in control of.'
Helfer revealed her content will include a mix of professional photos, selfies, videos, and livestream Q&A sessions. 'I'm keeping with my brand – albeit the sexier side of my brand,' she told the outlet. 'It'll be a mix of artistic shots with great photographers and pictures and videos of quiet and silly times at home feeding my goats or weeding my garden.'
She added: 'I posted a picture [recently] of me out in my garden watering my plants and I had my work boots on, but it was hot outside so I was in a bikini.'
The blonde beauty continued: 'Would I shock my parents with the images? Probably. But they saw [me in] Playboy, and they appreciated why I had done it. My passion is my job as an actor, and I'm using this platform as an extension of my creative, fun and flirty side.'
Besides Playboy, Helfer graced the April 2005 cover of Stuff magazine in scanty attire. She expressed that OnlyFans is like 'an extension and a modern-day growth from those types of press outlets from the past.'
'I'm certainly not shy in that department,' Helfer asserted. 'Even now I have a nude in the Leica Gallery in Los Angeles, and it's actually been up there for a few years.'
The devoted animal lover and advocate shared that part of the money earned from OnlyFans will go towards animal charity. 'Animal charity specifically has always been close to my heart,' she said. 'I've done it at least the last 20 years. So if I have any success with OnlyFans, then it will actually help me be able to donate more money than I already do and stay involved in ways than I already do.'
Helfer was the standout star on the Battlestar Galactica reboot that aired five seasons from 2004 to 2009. The Canadian-born beauty posed topless in her underwear for the February 2007 cover of Playboy magazine. She was recognized as a high-fashion model at the start of her versatile career.
The Alberta, Canada native started modeling at age 17 after being discovered by a modeling agency scout while standing in line at a movie theater. Helfer soon became internationally recognized as a high-fashion model, elevating the pages and covers of top-tier publications such as Elle and Vogue. She walked the catwalks for major design houses including Ralph Lauren, Chanel, Versace, Christian Dior, Dolce & Gabbana, and Victoria's Secret, and starred in global ad campaigns for many of those brands.
After retiring from high-fashion modeling in 2002, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting and became best known for her iconic role as Cylon Number Six in the Battlestar Galactica reboot (2004–2009). Other major television roles included the Goddess/Charlotte Richards in Lucifer (2016–2021) and Dracula in Van Helsing (2019–2021). She recently joined the cast of The Lincoln Lawyer for the fifth and final season. She has also appeared in several films, such as 2019's Bombshell, in which she portrayed news anchor Alisyn Camerota, and the 2004 TV movie Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Charlie's Angels, playing Farrah Fawcett.
Back in 2017, during a candid interview with Funk's House of Geekery, Helfer mused on why she was a standout star on Battlestar Galactica. 'Looking back I honestly think I was front and center because, I suppose that's where the modeling background really comes into it. When we were doing our first gallery shoot, which is where we do all the advertising images for the season, most actors had gallery shoots. They get impatient, they're used to a moving camera, they're not used to a still camera, they get jittery and they get impatient,' she told the site. 'From a modeling background, I was patient and stand there while they take the photos, so they had so many photos of me. It's also because the show was shot in a sort of documentary style, all dark and gritty, and here's this red dress and platinum hair. It popped off the screen and off the picture.'
She added, 'I was also the only known Cylon at that point, in the beginning. If you're showing another side to the human side, I was the one to show. That was one of the main reasons. You know, the show has really transcended time.'
As for her personal life, Helfer married lawyer Jonathan Marshall in 2003 after meeting at a mutual friend's party. They separated in 2017, and she filed for divorce eight months later, with the split becoming final in 2019.
Meanwhile, OnlyFans has drawn many other stars such as Denise Richards and her daughter Sami Sheen, The Sopranos actress Drea De Matteo, Coco Austin, Bella Thorne, Real Housewives of New York alum Sonja Morgan, and most recently, Shannon Elizabeth, who said she earned over $1.2 million in her first week on OnlyFans.
