Danica McKellar Bio, Age, Husband, Books, Wonder Years, Movies, Shows

Danica McKellar Biography

Danica McKellar (Danica Mae McKellar) is an American actress, mathematics writer and education advocate. McKellar played Kevin Arnold’s on-off girlfriend Winnie Cooper in the television series The Wonder Years. From 2010–2013 and since 2018, she voiced Miss Martian in the animated superhero series Young Justice. McKellar was cast in 2015, in the Netflix original series Project Mc2. McKellar also appears in several television films for Hallmark Channel. Currently McKellar is also the voice of Judy Jetson from The Jetsons since 2017 due to Janet Waldo’s death in 2016.

In addition to her acting work, she later wrote six non-fiction books, all dealing with mathematics (as she has a bachelor’s degree in math from UCLA): Kiss My Math, Math Doesn’t Suck, Hot X: Algebra Exposed, Girls Get Curves: Geometry Takes Shape, which encourage middle-school and high-school girls to have confidence and succeed in mathematics, Goodnight, Numbers and Do Not Open This Math Book.

Danica McKellar Age

Danica McKellar is 44 years old as per 2018 born on January 3, 1975 in La Jolla, California, U.S.

Danica Mckellar Son

Danica McKellar has son called Draco Verta, whom she got from her previous marriage with Mike Verta.

Danica McKellar Husband

Danica McKellar was engaged to her boyfriend Scott Sveslosky on July 16, 2014, a partner in the Los Angeles legal firm Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton. They married in Kauai, Hawaii on November 15, 2014.

 

Previously McKellar was McKellar married to composer Mike Verta, On March 22, 2009,  in La Jolla, California; the two had dated since 2001. In 2010 they had their first child a son named Draco. In June 2012, McKellar filed for divorce from Verta, with the dissolution becoming final in February 2013.

Danica McKellar Parents

Danica McKellar mother is Mahaila (nee Tello). She was a homemaker, her father Christopher is a real estate developer. McKellar is of paternal Scottish, German, French, Spanish, Dutch descent and her mother is of Portuguese origin via the Azores and Madeira islands.

Danica McKellar studied at the University of California, Los Angeles where in 1998 she earned a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree summa cum laude in Mathematics. She coauthored a scientific paper as an undergraduate with Professor Lincoln Chayes and fellow student Brandy Winn titled “Percolation and Gibbs states multiplicity for ferromagnetic Ashkin–Teller models on {\displaystyle \mathbb {Z} ^{2}} \mathbb {Z} ^{2}.” Their results are termed the “Chayes–McKellar–Winn theorem”. Later, when Chayes was asked to comment about the mathematical abilities of his student coauthors, Chayes was quoted in The New York Times, “I thought that the two were really, really first-rate.” For McKellar’s past collaborative work on research papers, she is currently assigned the Erdős number four, and her Erdős–Bacon number is six.

Danica McKellar Wonder Years and Early Acting Career

Danica McKellar enrolled in weekend acting classes for children when she was seven years old, at the Lee Strasberg Institute in Los Angeles. In her teens, Danica McKellar landed a prominent role in The Wonder Years, an American television comedy-drama that ran for six seasons on ABC, from 1988 to 1993. Danica McKellar played Gwendolyn “Winnie” Cooper, the main love interest of Kevin Arnold (played by Fred Savage) on the show. Her first kiss was in an episode of The Wonder Years with Fred Savage.

Danica McKella Later Acting and Music

Danica McKellar said that she found it “difficult” to move from being a child actress to an adult actress. McKellar has had several guest roles in television series since leaving The Wonder Years, (including one with former co-star Fred Savage on Working) and has written and directed two short films. McKellar appeared in two Lifetime TV movies in the Moment of Truth series, In 1994’s Cradle of Conspiracy, playing Kristin Guthrie and Annie Mills Carman in 1996’s Justice for Annie. In the 2002–03 season of The West Wing, she briefly returned to regular television with a recurring role, portraying Elsie Snuffin, the stepsister and assistant of Deputy White House Communications Director Will Bailey.

In Debbie Gibson’s eighth single from the Electric Youth album, “No More Rhyme”, McKellar was featured which was released in 1989. McKellar plays the cello in the beginning of the video. She also appeared in lingerie in the July 2005 edition of Stuff magazin after readers voted her the 1990s star they would most like to see in lingerie. Danica McKellar explained that she agreed to the shoot in part to obtain “grittier roles.” McKellar starred in a Lifetime movie in 2006 and web-based series titled Inspector Mom about a mother who solves mysteries.

On the edition of the Don and Mike Showt on August 1, 2007, a WJFK-FM radio program out of Washington, D.C., Danica McKellar announced plans that the producers of How I Met Your Mother were planning to bring her back for a recurring role (she guest-starred on the show in late 2005 in “The Pineapple Incident” and again in early 2007 in “Third Wheel”). Danica McKellar also made an appearance on the show The Big Bang Theory, in the episode “The Psychic Vortex”. McKellar starred in Heatstroke in 2008, a Sci-Fi Channel original movie about searching for alien life on Earth and in 2009 she was one of the stars commenting on the occurrences of the new millennium in VH1’s I Love the New Millennium and was the math correspondent for Brink, a program by the Science Channel about technology. Danica McKellar played Ellen Plainview in 2013, in Lifetime’s reimagining of the 1956 Alfred Hitchcock film The Wrong Man.

She has also worked as a voice actress, having provided the voice of Jubilee in the video game X-Men Legends (2004) and Invisible Woman in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance (2006) and Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 (2009). In the TV series Young Justice, Danica McKellar provided the voice of Miss Martian. She starred in the Lifetime movie Love at the Christmas Table with Dustin Milligan in 2012. McKellar also starred in the Syfy movie Tasmanian Devils with Apolo Ohno in January 2013.

The Canadian singer Avril Lavigne released the music video for her single “Rock N Roll” from her upcoming self-titled fifth album on August 20, 2013, which features McKellar as “Winnie Cooper”. McKellar was announced on March 4, 2014, that she was to join season 18 of Dancing with the Stars. McKellar paired with Valentin Chmerkovskiy. On Week 8, Danica McKellar and Chmerkovskiy were eliminated, finishing in 6th place. McKellar had a guest appearance in the Impractical Jokers season four episode six titled “The Blunder Years”. She starred in the Netflix original series Project Mc2 as The Quail in 2015. She has starred in several Hallmark Channel movies, including Crown for Christmas, My Christmas Dream, and Campfire Kiss.

Danica McKella Books

Danica McKellar has authored several mathematics-related books primarily targeting adolescent readers interested in succeeding at the study of mathematics:

• McKellar, Danica; Mary Lynn Blasutta (2008). Math Doesn’t Suck: How to Survive Middle School Math
• without Losing Your Mind or Breaking a Nail. New York: Plume. ISBN 9780452289499.
• McKellar, Danica (2009). Kiss My Math: Showing Pre-Algebra Who’s Boss. New York: Plume. ISBN 9780452295407.
• McKellar, Danica (2010). Hot X: Algebra Exposed. New York: Plume. ISBN 9780452297197.
• McKellar, Danica (2012). Girls Get Curves: Geometry Takes Shape. New York: Hudson Street Press. ISBN 9781594630941.

Danica McKella Awards and Honors

Danica McKellar was named on World News as Person of the Week with Charles Gibson for the week ending August 10, 2007. The news segment highlighted her book Math Doesn’t Suck and her efforts to help girls develop an interest in mathematics, especially during the middle school years. She received the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics (JPBM) Communications Award in January 2014. The citation credited McKellar’s books, blog and public appearances for encouraging “countless middle and high school students, especially girls, to be more interested in mathematics.

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