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 Together with her younger sister, Crystal McKellar, she began acting at a young age in her mother's dance studio. In 1982 the family moved to Los Angeles and a few years later she appeared in her first commercial. A few guest appearances in The Twilight Zone (1985) was followed by her breakthrough in The Wonder Years (1988). She has had good grades in math and French. In her spare time she likes to go skiing, swimming and surfing.Best known as America's alluring dream girl from her days as Winnie Cooper on The Wonder Years (1988), Danica McKellar made her breakthrough at the early age of 12. After that show ended, she went on to graduate Summa cum Laude from UCLA with a degree in Mathematics, and even proved a new math theorem, the Chayes-McKellar-Winn Theorem.Since returning to acting, Danica became familiar again to audiences from her year-long turn as the sardonic, dry-witted Elsie Snuffin on The West Wing (1999) in its 4th season. Since then, Danica made guest appearances on shows such as NYPD Blue (1993), Jack & Bobby (2004), Eve (2003), NCIS (2003), and she played a strung-out heroin addict on Lifetime's Strong Medicine (2000).Danica got her feet wet as a filmmaker with her award-winning short film Speechless... (2001) (co-starring The Wonder Years (1988) pal Dan Lauria), which she wrote, directed, and produced.Danica made her debut lingerie spread in the July 2005 issue of Stuff Magazine, in which she appears on the cover. Her pictures can also be seen on its Web site. Talk about allure.
Bio:
Together with her younger sister, Crystal McKellar, she began acting at a young age in her mother's dance studio. In 1982 the family moved to Los Angeles and a few years later she appeared in her first commercial. A few guest appearances in The Twilight Zone (1985) was followed by her breakthrough in The Wonder Years (1988). She has had good grades in math and French. In her spare time she likes to go skiing, swimming and surfing.
Best known as America's alluring dream girl from her days as Winnie Cooper on The Wonder Years (1988), Danica McKellar made her breakthrough at the early age of 12. After that show ended, she went on to graduate Summa cum Laude from UCLA with a degree in Mathematics, and even proved a new math theorem, the Chayes-McKellar-Winn Theorem.Since returning to acting, Danica became familiar again to audiences from her year-long turn as the sardonic, dry-witted Elsie Snuffin on The West Wing (1999) in its 4th season. Since then, Danica made guest appearances on shows such as NYPD Blue (1993), Jack & Bobby (2004), Eve (2003), NCIS (2003), and she played a strung-out heroin addict on Lifetime's Strong Medicine (2000).Danica got her feet wet as a filmmaker with her award-winning short film Speechless... (2001) (co-starring The Wonder Years (1988) pal Dan Lauria), which she wrote, directed, and produced.Danica made her debut lingerie spread in the July 2005 issue of Stuff Magazine, in which she appears on the cover. Her pictures can also be seen on its Web site. Talk about allure.
Tivia:
Had a 1998 paper published in Britain's "Journal of Physics A: Mathematics & General" with UCLA professor Lincoln Chayes and student Brandy Winn that provided a mathematical proof for a theorem dealing with magnetism in two dimensions. Her Erdos number is, at most, four; her Bacon number, by comparison, is two.Is fluent in French.Graduated summa cum laude from UCLA with a BS in mathematics in June 1998.Is now a two-time New York Times bestselling author with books "Kiss My Math" (2008) and "Math Doesn't Suck" (2007).One of the few people to have both an Erd?s number (the number of scientific-paper authors it takes to connect herself to the Hungarian mathematician Paul Erd?s) AND a Bacon number (the the degree of separation between her and American actor Kevin Bacon). Many scientists and mathematicians have an Erd?s number, and a great many actors have a Bacon number, but relatively few people have both.ABC World News Tonight with David Muir (1953) named her "Person of the Week" for her book, "Math Doesn't Suck".Played the role of "Catherine" in a San Diego production of David Auburn's play "Proof". Catherine is an unlikely mathematical genius who writes a groundbreaking proof at a very young age; McKellar is also an unlikely mathematical genius (she was the only undergraduate invited to speak at Rutgers University's biannual Statistical Mechanics) who wrote a proof at a very young age.Her mathematics paper co-author Brandy Winn graduated from the University of Chicago with Ph.D. in Mathematics (2005).Was invited to appear on "Celebrity Wife Swap" and "The Apprentice", but turned down both offers.Was mentioned on The Big Bang Theory (2007) as "the girl who played Winnie Copper" (The episode, The Bat Jar Conjecture (2008)), and then appeared in the episode, The Psychic Vortex (2010), and makes out with Raj (Kunal Nayyar).Her mother's ancestry is Portuguese (via the Azores and Madeira islands); her father's ancestry is Scottish, Irish, French, German, and Dutch.Her least favorite school subject when she was younger was Physical Education.(June 4, 2012) Filed for divorce from Mike Verta, her husband of three years.Did all her own dancing and lifts in "21 and a Wakeup" with partner Jamie Bayard, of So You Think You Can Dance (2005) fame.Gave birth to her 1st child at age 35, a son Draco McKellar Verta on September 7, 2010. Child's father is her estranged husband, Mike Verta.Her favorite actor when she was younger was Michael Keaton.Appeared in Debbie Gibson 1988 music video "No More Rhyme".She had a recurring role as Elsie Snuffin on NBC's The West Wing (1999). (October 2002)Was a member of the Alpha Chi chapter of Alpha Delta Pi sorority at UCLA.Danica is from a Slavic word meaning "morning star". This name occurs in Slavic folklore as a personification of the morning star.She has an Erd?s-Bacon-Sabbath number of 10, which is among the lowest on the planet.She played Catherine in the stage play "Proof" at the San Diego Repertory Theatre. (October 2003)Her favorite TV shows, when she was younger, were Cheers (1982), Murphy Brown (1988) and The Wonder Years (1988).Became engaged to attorney Scott Svelosky in July 2014.Older sister of Crystal McKellar, whom she considers her best friend.In the Animted series Generator Rex : Noah and his date Claire are voiced by Fred Savage and Danica McKellar, respectively. They played childhood friends/sweethearts Kevin Arnold and Winnie Cooper, respectively, on The Wonder Years (1988).Her favorite actresses when she was younger were Crystal McKellar and Kirstie Alley.Her favorite movies when she was younger were Total Recall (1990), Ghost (1990), On the Waterfront (1954).Celebrity Judge for UCLA Spring Sing 2005.Daughter of Mahaila McKellar and Christopher McKellar.Reprised her role as Frieda Goren on the Kids WB series Static Shock (2000). (January 2004)Before Kelly Osbourne was known to the public, Danica played the daughter of Ozzy Osbourne (Patton Oswalt) and Sharon Osbourne (Nancy Carell); and sister to "Ben" Osbourne (Kevin E. Elliot) in VH1's comedy series, Random Play (1999), in 1998.Of Clan Campbell.Attended Jason Marsden's nuptials. (October 2004)Stepsister of Christopher McKellar Jr. and Connor McKellar.Her car when she was younger was a Mercedes.Born on the same date as her Static Shock (2000) co-star, Jason Marsden. |
| Name: |
Danica McKellar |
Type: |
Actress,Producer,Writer (IMDB) |
| Area: |
All World |
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IMDB |
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Business scope: |
Actress,Producer,Writer |
| Products for sale: |
Actress,Producer,Writer |
| Model rank: |
755 |
| Last update: |
2024-07-01 04:25:32 |
| Height: |
5' 4' (1.63 m) |
| Biography: |
Together with her younger sister, Crystal McKellar, she began acting at a young age in her mother\'s dance studio. In 1982 the family moved to Los Angeles and a few years later she appeared in her first commercial. A few guest appearances in The Twil |
| Trivia: |
Had a 1998 paper published in Britain's "Journal of Physics A: Mathematics & General" with UCLA professor Lincoln Chayes and student Brandy Winn that provided a mathematical proof for a theorem dealing with magnetism in two dimensions. Her Erdos number is, at most, four; her Bacon number, by comparison, is two.Is fluent in French.Graduated summa cum laude from UCLA with a BS in mathematics in June 1998.Is now a two-time New York Times bestselling author with books "Kiss My Math" (2008) and "Math Doesn't Suck" (2007).One of the few people to have both an Erd?s number (the number of scientific-paper authors it takes to connect herself to the Hungarian mathematician Paul Erd?s) AND a Bacon number (the the degree of separation between her and American actor Kevin Bacon). Many scientists and mathematicians have an Erd?s number, and a great many actors have a Bacon number, but relatively few people have both.ABC World News Tonight with David Muir (1953) named her "Person of the Week" for her book, "Math Doesn't Suck".Played the role of "Catherine" in a San Diego production of David Auburn's play "Proof". Catherine is an unlikely mathematical genius who writes a groundbreaking proof at a very young age; McKellar is also an unlikely mathematical genius (she was the only undergraduate invited to speak at Rutgers University's biannual Statistical Mechanics) who wrote a proof at a very young age.Her mathematics paper co-author Brandy Winn graduated from the University of Chicago with Ph.D. in Mathematics (2005).Was invited to appear on "Celebrity Wife Swap" and "The Apprentice", but turned down both offers.Was mentioned on The Big Bang Theory (2007) as "the girl who played Winnie Copper" (The episode, The Bat Jar Conjecture (2008)), and then appeared in the episode, The Psychic Vortex (2010), and makes out with Raj (Kunal Nayyar).Her mother's ancestry is Portuguese (via the Azores and Madeira islands); her father's ancestry is Scottish, Irish, French, German, and Dutch.Her least favorite school subject when she was younger was Physical Education.(June 4, 2012) Filed for divorce from Mike Verta, her husband of three years.Did all her own dancing and lifts in "21 and a Wakeup" with partner Jamie Bayard, of So You Think You Can Dance (2005) fame.Gave birth to her 1st child at age 35, a son Draco McKellar Verta on September 7, 2010. Child's father is her estranged husband, Mike Verta.Her favorite actor when she was younger was Michael Keaton.Appeared in Debbie Gibson 1988 music video "No More Rhyme".She had a recurring role as Elsie Snuffin on NBC's The West Wing (1999). (October 2002)Was a member of the Alpha Chi chapter of Alpha Delta Pi sorority at UCLA.Danica is from a Slavic word meaning "morning star". This name occurs in Slavic folklore as a personification of the morning star.She has an Erd?s-Bacon-Sabbath number of 10, which is among the lowest on the planet.She played Catherine in the stage play "Proof" at the San Diego Repertory Theatre. (October 2003)Her favorite TV shows, when she was younger, were Cheers (1982), Murphy Brown (1988) and The Wonder Years (1988).Became engaged to attorney Scott Svelosky in July 2014.Older sister of Crystal McKellar, whom she considers her best friend.In the Animted series Generator Rex : Noah and his date Claire are voiced by Fred Savage and Danica McKellar, respectively. They played childhood friends/sweethearts Kevin Arnold and Winnie Cooper, respectively, on The Wonder Years (1988).Her favorite actresses when she was younger were Crystal McKellar and Kirstie Alley.Her favorite movies when she was younger were Total Recall (1990), Ghost (1990), On the Waterfront (1954).Celebrity Judge for UCLA Spring Sing 2005.Daughter of Mahaila McKellar and Christopher McKellar.Reprised her role as Frieda Goren on the Kids WB series Static Shock (2000). (January 2004)Before Kelly Osbourne was known to the public, Danica played the daughter of Ozzy Osbourne (Patton Oswalt) and Sharon Osbourne (Nancy Carell); and sister to "Ben" Osbourne (Kevin E. Elliot) in VH1's comedy series, Random Play (1999), in 1998.Of Clan Campbell.Attended Jason Marsden's nuptials. (October 2004)Stepsister of Christopher McKellar Jr. and Connor McKellar.Her car when she was younger was a Mercedes.Born on the same date as her Static Shock (2000) co-star, Jason Marsden. |
| Trademarks: |
Youthful sounding voice |
| Quotes: |
I learned my French through school. I was lucky in that the tutor on The Wonder Years (1988) set spoke fluent French.
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My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, ARE fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.
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When I originally entered UCLA, I had planned to go for a film major, but I kept finding myself taking math classes for fun, 'cause I missed them from high school! |
| Job title: |
Actress,Producer,Writer |
| Others works: |
(2003) Stage: Appeared (as "Catherine") in "Proof", San Diego Repertory Theatre, San Diego, CA.
(1991) Music video: Appeared in "No More Rhyme" by Debbie Gibson.
(2007) Book: "Math Doesn't Suck: How to Survive Mid |
| Spouse: |
Scott Sveslosky (November 15, 2014 - present) Mike Verta (March 22, 2009 - February 2013) (divorced, 1 child) |
| Children: |
Draco McKellar Verta |
| Parents: |
Mahaila McKellar
Christopher McKellar |
| Relatives: |
Crystal McKellar (Sibling)
Christopher McKellar Jr. (Half Sibling)
Connor McKellar (Half Sibling) |
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