American actress and mathematician. She is best known for her role as Winnie Cooper in the television show The Wonder Years.Now she is known as author of the nationally bestselling book, Math Doesn't Suck, which encourages and empowers middle-school girls with mathematics know-how. Math Doesn't Suck was so popular McKellar wrote more novels about math, including Kiss My Math and Hot X. She also wrote a sequel to Math Doesn't Suck for years 6 through 9. McKellar shows many people that just because you are an actor, that doesn't mean you are stupid. Although she is best known through The Wonder Years, that doesn't mean she isn't a wonderful writer and great mathematician.
Older sister of Crystal McKellar , whom she considers her best friend.
Graduated summa cum laude from UCLA with a BS in mathematics in June 1998.
Had a 1998 paper published in Britains "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.
Was a member of the Alpha Chi chapter of Alpha Delta Pi sorority at UCLA.
(October 2004) Attended Jason Marsden s nuptials.
Her mothers ancestry is Portuguese (via the Azores and Madeira islands); her fathers ancestry is Scottish, Irish, French, German, and Dutch.
Celebrity Judge for UCLA Spring Sing 2005.
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 Universitys biannual Statistical Mechanics) who wrote a proof at a very young age.
Daughter of Mahaila McKellar and Christopher McKellar.
Stepsister of Christopher McKellar Jr. and Connor McKellar.
"ABC Evening News" named her "Person of the Week" for her book, "Math Doesnt Suck".
Did all her own dancing and lifts in "21 and a Wakeup" with partner Jamie Bayard , of "So You Think You Can Dance" fame.
Is now a two-time New York Times bestselling author with books "Kiss My Math" and "Math Doesnt Suck".
One of the few people to have both an Erds number (the number of scientific-paper authors it takes to connect herself to the Hungarian mathematician Paul Erds) AND a Bacon number (the the degree of separation between her and American actor Kevin Bacon ). Many scientists and mathematicians have an Erds number, and a great many actors have a Bacon number, but relatively few people have both.
Gave birth to her 1st child at age 35, a son Draco McKellar Verta on September 7, 2010. Childs father is her estranged husband, Mike Verta.
(June 4, 2012) Filed for divorce from Mike Verta , her husband of three years.
(January 2004) Reprised her role as Frieda Goren on the Kids WB series "Static Shock" .
(October 2002) She had a recurring role as Elsie Snuffin on NBCs "The West Wing" .
(October 2003) She played Catherine in the stage play "Proof" at the San Diego Repertory Theatre.
Became engaged to attorney Scott Svelosky in July 2014.
Her least favorite school subject when she was younger was Physical Education.
Her car when she was younger was a Mercedes.
Her favorite school subjects when she was younger was Math and French.
Her favorite actresses when she was younger were Crystal McKellar and Kirstie Alley.
Her favorite TV shows, when she was younger, were "Cheers" , "Murphy Brown" and "The Wonder Years" .
Her favorite movies when she was younger were Total Recall , Ghost , On the Waterfront .
Her favorite actor when she was younger was Michael Keaton.
Her favorite vacation spot is Hawaii.
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 VH1s comedy series, "Random Play" , in 1998.
Graduated from the University of Chicago with Ph.D. in math.
She has an Erds-Bacon-Sabbath number of 10, which is among the lowest on the planet.
From a Slavic word meaning "morning star". This name occurs in Slavic folklore as a personification of the morning star.
Appeared in Debbie Gibson 1988 music video "No More Rhyme".
Was mentioned on "The Big Bang Theory" as "the girl who played Winnie Copper" (The "The Bat Jar Conjecture" episode), and then appeared in the episode, "The Big Bang Theory" {The Psychic Vortex (#3.12)} , and makes out with Raj (Kunal Nayyar ).
I learned my French through school. I was lucky in that the tutor on,"The Wonder Years" (1988) set spoke fluent French.
Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.
I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.
