Showing posts with label Canadian Elegant Woman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Canadian Elegant Woman. Show all posts

Thursday, May 10, 2012

Elegant Woman - Tricia Helfer, Canadian model and actress


Tricia Janine Helfer (born April 11, 1974) is a Canadian model and actress. She is best known for playing the humanoid Cylon Number Six in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica television series. She has also been actively involved in different charity events, from animal rescue to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

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







Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Elegant Woman - Elisha Cuthbert, Canadian film and television actress


Elisha Ann Cuthbert (born November 30, 1982) is a Canadian film and television actress. Cuthbert is known as the former co-host of the Canadian children's television series Popular Mechanics for Kids. In 1998, she had her first film role in Airspeed. She followed this up in 2003 with a role in Old School. Her most prominent role is as Kim Bauer in the American action-thriller television series 24. She is currently starring as Alex on the ABC comedy series Happy Endings.

Cuthbert was born in Calgary, Alberta, the daughter of Patricia, a homemaker, and Kevin, an automotive design engineer. She has two younger siblings, Jonathan and Lee-Ann, and she grew up in Greenfield Park, near Montreal, Quebec. In 2000, she graduated from Centennial Regional High School and moved to Los Angeles at the age of 17 to pursue an acting career.