Sci-fi fans best know Tricia Helfer for her role as “Number Six” in SyFy series “Battlestar Galactica,” and now as she promotes a new outdoors awareness campaign, the talented actress is continuing her green campaign for Gulf restoration.
“Being from Alberta, I know first hand the incredible beauty that is there for the opportunities for those people who are free spirits and travelers who like to get out and experience things like horseback riding, canoeing, and hiking,” Tricia told AccessHollywood.com while taking a breather from a virtual heli-yoga session in Irvine, Calif. to help promote tourism and herald the untouched beauty of the Canadian province.
“It’s raw and open. You can go up there on a hike and not see another person,” the actress continued while speaking from the Travel Alberta event. “You get in tune with nature. The amount of wildlife you can see and the amount of activities you can do, people just don’t know about it down here.”
Tricia has also become an activist for raising restoration awareness and funds following 2010’s Gulf Coast disaster that resulted in millions of gallons of crude oil released into and beyond the waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
In response to the crisis, she and fellow “Battlestar Galactica” alum Katee Sackhoff formed the Acting Outlaws to further their personal crusade to help restore the Gulf. With the one-year mark of the environmental catastrophe this week, Tricia is still persevering to keep this issue an issue in peoples’ minds.
“I just got an email form the Gulf Restoration Network, which was the charity we partnered with, about where we are a year later after the spill. It’s shocking how much is still left to be done yet,” she explained.
Tricia and Katee are currently in post-production on a documentary that chronicled a motorcycle road trip they took from Los Angeles to New Orleans on behalf of Acting Outlaws last October. The entire journey was shot with multiple cameras and they kept in touch with fans and supporters each night via online chats and Twitter updates.
“The trip was fantastic,” Tricia said. “We are in the final stages of editing the documentary. We are expecting the final rough cut in a week. Hopefully, in a month we will be shopping it around and putting it on our site after that. We had such an amazing time.”
AccessHollywood.com talked with Tricia and Katee about their cause at NYC Comic-Con shortly before they embarked on the trip; you can check out that interview HERE.
Though there is still much more work to be done in the Gulf, Tricia said she is proud of what has been accomplished so far from the feedback she received during the trip.
“Hearing from people every night and people writing into the site and just giving up stories of what they’re doing. It’s nice to hear you’re inspiring people,” she shared.
“It was nice to touch base with people and hear what they are doing in their own life, and also hear some stories from people who were there working on the ground at the time of the spill.”
Looking ahead, Tricia is already eyeing possibilities for her next Acting Outlaws road trip.
“I still wanna do New York to San Francisco,” she revealed.
“I’d love to go across Canada on a bike. A cross-Canada motorcycle trip, which will take a long time, would be an amazing trip! And we’d be going right through Alberta. It would be an amazing trip to go through the Rockies. It’d have to be summer though,” she laughed.
Later this week, check back on AccessHollywood.com for our conversation with Tricia about re-teaming with “Battlestar” alum Jamie Bamber, for their new NBC pilot, “17th Precinct.”
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