1. Danica Mae McKellar was born on January 3,1975 and is an American actress, mathematics writer, and education advocate.
29 Facts About Danica McKellar
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Danica McKellar is best known for playing Winnie Cooper in the television series The Wonder Years.
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Danica McKellar has done voice acting, including Frieda Goren in Static Shock, Miss Martian in Young Justice, and Killer Frost in DC Super Hero Girls.
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In 2015, Danica McKellar joined part of the main cast in the Netflix original series Project Mc.
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Danica McKellar moved with her family to Los Angeles when she was eight.
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Danica McKellar is of Scottish, French, German, Spanish, and Dutch descent on her father's side, and of Portuguese descent, by way of the Azores and the Madeira islands, on her mother's side.
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In 1998, Danica McKellar earned a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from UCLA, where she was a member of the Alpha Delta Pi sorority.
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At age seven, Danica McKellar enrolled in weekend acting classes for children at the Lee Strasberg Institute in Los Angeles.
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Danica McKellar played Gwendolyn "Winnie" Cooper, the main love interest of Kevin Arnold on the show.
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Danica McKellar has said that she found it "difficult" to move from being a child actress to an adult actress.
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Since leaving The Wonder Years, Danica McKellar has had several guest roles in television series, and has written and directed two short films.
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Danica McKellar appeared in two Lifetime films in the Moment of Truth series, playing Kristin Guthrie in 1994's Cradle of Conspiracy and Annie Mills Carman in 1996's Justice for Annie.
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Danica McKellar was featured in the video for Debbie Gibson's eighth single from the Electric Youth album, "No More Rhyme", which was released in 1989.
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Danica McKellar plays the cello in the beginning of the video.
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Danica McKellar appeared in lingerie in the July 2005 edition of Stuff magazine after readers voted her the 1990s star they would most like to see in lingerie.
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Danica McKellar explained that she agreed to the shoot in part to obtain "grittier roles".
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In 2006, Danica McKellar starred in a Lifetime film and web-based series titled Inspector Mom about a mother who solves mysteries.
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Danica McKellar made an appearance on the show The Big Bang Theory, in the episode "The Psychic Vortex".
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Danica McKellar has worked as a voice actress, having provided the voice of Jubilee in the video game X-Men Legends, and Invisible Woman in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance and Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2.
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Danica McKellar provided the voice of Miss Martian in the TV series Young Justice.
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Danica McKellar had a guest appearance in the Impractical Jokers season four episode six titled "The Blunder Years".
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Danica McKellar made another guest appearance in the season seven episode ten titled "Speech Impediment".
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Danica McKellar is a judge on Fox's Domino Masters which premiered on March 9,2022.
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Danica McKellar has authored several mathematics-related books primarily targeting adolescent readers interested in succeeding at the study of mathematics:.
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Danica McKellar's first book, Math Doesn't Suck: How to Survive Middle School Math without Losing Your Mind or Breaking a Nail, was a New York Times bestseller, and was favorably reviewed by Tara C Smith, the founder of Iowa Citizens for Science and a professor of epidemiology at the University of Iowa.
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Three of Danica McKellar's books were listed in The New York Times children's bestseller list.
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Danica McKellar was named Person of the Week on World News with Charles Gibson for the week ending August 10,2007.
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Danica McKellar married composer Mike Verta on March 22,2009, in La Jolla, California; the couple had dated since 2001.
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Danica McKellar cites Candace Cameron Bure as having been a major influence in her life after Bure gave her a copy of the Bible.