- Born
- Birth nameDanica Mae McKellar
- Height5′ 4″ (1.63 m)
- 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.- IMDb mini biography by: Mattias Thuresson
- 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, proved a new math theorem, the Chayes-McKellar-Winn Theorem, and has now written 11 books to inspire school aged children in math, all found at McKellarMath.com.
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.
After starring in over 20 television movies for Hallmark and Lifetime, Danica now regularly executive produces and stars in television movies for Great American Family channel, which is known for its feel-good content.- IMDb mini biography by: HLR
- SpousesScott Sveslosky(November 15, 2014 - present)Mike Verta(March 22, 2009 - February 2013) (divorced, 1 child)
- Children
- Parents
- RelativesCrystal McKellar(Sibling)Christopher McKellar Jr.(Half Sibling)Connor McKellar(Half Sibling)Don McKellar(Cousin)
- Gender / Gender identityFemale
- Youthful sounding voice
- 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).
- 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.
- World News Tonight (1953) named her "Person of the Week" for her book, "Math Doesn't Suck".
- I learned my French through school. I was lucky in that the tutor on The Wonder Years (1988) set spoke fluent French.
- 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.
- 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!
- [2014, on the common rumor of her 'The Wonder Years' co-star Josh Saviano] I get asked if he's Marilyn Manson like every week.
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