Danica McKellar
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Danica Mae McKellar is an American actress, academic, and education advocate. She is best known for her role as Winnie Cooper in the television show The Wonder Years
, and later as author of the three The New York Times bestsellers, Math Doesn't Suck, Kiss My Math, and Hot X: Algebra Exposed, which encourage middle-school girls to have confidence and succeed in mathematics.
when she was eight. Her mother Mahalia is a homemaker; her father Christopher is a real estate developer. Her family is "a big mix of Western Europe": Her mother's ancestry is Portuguese
(via the Azores
and Madeira
islands); her father's ancestry is Scottish
, Irish
, French
, German and Dutch
. McKellar and her sister Crystal McKellar
(who is loosely named after their dad) both maintained professional acting careers as children, but with a strong emphasis on education as a priority. As a result, Crystal became a corporate lawyer (her family nicknamed her "Legally Blonde" because of her hair color), while Danica majored in mathematics. Danica and Crystal also have two half-brothers, Chris Junior and Connor McKellar.
, an American
television comedy-drama
that ran for six seasons on ABC
, from 1988 to 1993.
McKellar played Gwendolyn "Winnie" Cooper, the main love interest of Kevin Arnold (played by Fred Savage
) on the show. In an episode entitled "The Accident" and in the final episode, it is stated that every important event in Kevin's life somehow involved Winnie. She lives on the same block as Kevin. Their first kiss plays an important part of the pilot episode, as does her older brother's death while serving as a soldier in the Vietnam War. In one episode, her parents decide to get separated because of their grief over the death of their son. According to the epilogue in the final episode, Winnie studies art history in Paris. Kevin and Winnie write one letter to each other every week for eight years until her return. Despite their life-long romance, they never marry.
McKellar's first kiss was with Fred Savage in an episode of The Wonder Years. She later said, "My first kiss was a pretty nerve-wracking experience! But we never kissed off screen, and pretty quickly our feelings turned into brother/sister, and stayed that way." McKellar also had a role in the film Sidekicks, directed by Aaron Norris.
on Working
), and has written and directed two short films. She played Kristin Guthrie in a 1994 Lifetime TV movie, Moment of Truth: Cradle of Conspiracy. In 1996, she played the character Annie Mills Carman in the Lifetime Moment of Truth movie Justice For Annie. She briefly returned to regular television with a recurring role in the 2002–03 season of The West Wing, portraying Elsie Snuffin, the stepsister and assistant of Deputy White House Communications Director Will Bailey
.
McKellar appeared in lingerie
in the July 2005 edition of Stuff
magazine after readers voted her the '90s star they would most like to see in lingerie. McKellar explained that she agreed to the shoot in part to obtain "grittier roles".
In June 2006, Lifetime Television
announced that McKellar would star in a Lifetime movie and web-based series titled Inspector Mom about a mother who solves mysteries. In an interview in the November 17, 2006 issue of TV Guide
, McKellar said that two TV movies and ten webisode
s of Inspector Mom were being produced.
McKellar has provided the voices for two characters in three video games: Jubilee
in X-Men Legends
(2004), and Invisible Woman
in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
(2006) and Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 (2009).
On the August 1, 2007, edition of the Don and Mike Show, a WJFK-FM
radio program out of Washington, D.C., 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
"). She appeared in the October 8, 2007, episode titled "Third Wheel
", as well as an appearance on the show The Big Bang Theory
.
In 2008, she starred in Heatstroke
, a Sci-Fi Channel
original movie about searching for alien life on Earth.
McKellar, , is one of the stars commenting on the occurrences of the new millennium in VH1
's I Love the New Millennium, and as of 2009 is the math correspondent for Brink
, a program by the Science Channel about upcoming technology.
McKellar has also become a very experienced voice actress.
, graduating with highest honors (summa cum laude) in 1998. As an undergraduate, she coauthored a scientific paper
with Professor Lincoln Chayes and fellow student Brandy Winn. Their results are termed the 'Chayes–McKellar–Winn theorem'. Referring to the mathematical abilities of his student coauthors, Chayes was quoted in The New York Times
as saying, "I thought that the two were really, really first-rate." McKellar's Erdős number
is four. Mckeller is even one of the few people with an Erdős-Bacon number
, which combines an Erdős number with a Bacon Number (as in the game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon
) since she also has a Bacon number of 2,making her Erdos-Bacon number a 6.
. In an interview with Smith, McKellar said that she wrote the book "to show girls that math is accessible and relevant, and even a little glamorous" and to counteract "damaging social messages telling young girls that math and science aren't for them".
McKellar was named Person of the Week on World News 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.
McKellar's second book, Kiss My Math: Showing Pre-Algebra Who's Boss, was released on August 5, 2008. The book's target audience is girls in the 7th through 9th grades. Her third book, Hot X: Algebra Exposed! was published on August 3, 2010, and is aimed at girls in the 8th-10th grade, or even adults who want to learn algebra.
All three of McKellar's books made it to The New York Times children's bestseller list.
The Wonder Years
The Wonder Years is an American television comedy-drama created by Carol Black and Neal Marlens. It ran for six seasons on ABC from 1988 through 1993. The pilot aired on January 31, 1988 after ABC's coverage of Super Bowl XXII....
, and later as author of the three The New York Times bestsellers, Math Doesn't Suck, Kiss My Math, and Hot X: Algebra Exposed, which encourage middle-school girls to have confidence and succeed in mathematics.
Early life
Born in La Jolla, California, McKellar moved with her family to Los AngelesLos Angeles, California
Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...
when she was eight. Her mother Mahalia is a homemaker; her father Christopher is a real estate developer. Her family is "a big mix of Western Europe": Her mother's ancestry is Portuguese
Portuguese people
The Portuguese are a nation and ethnic group native to the country of Portugal, in the west of the Iberian peninsula of south-west Europe. Their language is Portuguese, and Roman Catholicism is the predominant religion....
(via the Azores
Azores
The Archipelago of the Azores is composed of nine volcanic islands situated in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, and is located about west from Lisbon and about east from the east coast of North America. The islands, and their economic exclusion zone, form the Autonomous Region of the...
and Madeira
Madeira
Madeira is a Portuguese archipelago that lies between and , just under 400 km north of Tenerife, Canary Islands, in the north Atlantic Ocean and an outermost region of the European Union...
islands); her father's ancestry is Scottish
Scottish people
The Scottish people , or Scots, are a nation and ethnic group native to Scotland. Historically they emerged from an amalgamation of the Picts and Gaels, incorporating neighbouring Britons to the south as well as invading Germanic peoples such as the Anglo-Saxons and the Norse.In modern use,...
, Irish
Irish people
The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...
, French
French people
The French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...
, German and Dutch
Dutch people
The Dutch people are an ethnic group native to the Netherlands. They share a common culture and speak the Dutch language. Dutch people and their descendants are found in migrant communities worldwide, notably in Suriname, Chile, Brazil, Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, and the United...
. McKellar and her sister Crystal McKellar
Crystal McKellar
Crystal Dawn Scripps McKellar is an American attorney and former child actress.McKellar was born in San Diego, California. When she was seven years old, her family moved to Los Angeles. She and her sister Danica were both students at the Diane Hill Hardin Young Actors Space school...
(who is loosely named after their dad) both maintained professional acting careers as children, but with a strong emphasis on education as a priority. As a result, Crystal became a corporate lawyer (her family nicknamed her "Legally Blonde" because of her hair color), while Danica majored in mathematics. Danica and Crystal also have two half-brothers, Chris Junior and Connor McKellar.
The Wonder Years and early acting career
McKellar had a leading role in The Wonder YearsThe Wonder Years
The Wonder Years is an American television comedy-drama created by Carol Black and Neal Marlens. It ran for six seasons on ABC from 1988 through 1993. The pilot aired on January 31, 1988 after ABC's coverage of Super Bowl XXII....
, an American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
television comedy-drama
Comedy-drama
Comedy-drama is a genre of theatre, film and television programs which combines humorous and serious content.-Theatre:Traditional western theatre, beginning with the ancient Greeks, was divided into comedy and tragedy...
that ran for six seasons on ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
, from 1988 to 1993.
McKellar played Gwendolyn "Winnie" Cooper, the main love interest of Kevin Arnold (played by Fred Savage
Fred Savage
Fredrick Aaron "Fred" Savage is an American actor, director and producer of television and film.He is best known for his role as Kevin Arnold in the American television series The Wonder Years and as the grandson in The Princess Bride...
) on the show. In an episode entitled "The Accident" and in the final episode, it is stated that every important event in Kevin's life somehow involved Winnie. She lives on the same block as Kevin. Their first kiss plays an important part of the pilot episode, as does her older brother's death while serving as a soldier in the Vietnam War. In one episode, her parents decide to get separated because of their grief over the death of their son. According to the epilogue in the final episode, Winnie studies art history in Paris. Kevin and Winnie write one letter to each other every week for eight years until her return. Despite their life-long romance, they never marry.
McKellar's first kiss was with Fred Savage in an episode of The Wonder Years. She later said, "My first kiss was a pretty nerve-wracking experience! But we never kissed off screen, and pretty quickly our feelings turned into brother/sister, and stayed that way." McKellar also had a role in the film Sidekicks, directed by Aaron Norris.
Adult roles
McKellar has admitted the transition from "child actor to adult actor was a little bumpy." Since leaving The Wonder Years, McKellar has had several guest roles in television series (including one with former co-star Fred SavageFred Savage
Fredrick Aaron "Fred" Savage is an American actor, director and producer of television and film.He is best known for his role as Kevin Arnold in the American television series The Wonder Years and as the grandson in The Princess Bride...
on Working
Working (TV series)
Working was an American situation comedy that aired on NBC from 1997 to 1999. The series was created and executive produced by Michael Davidoff and Bill Rosenthal.-Synopsis:...
), and has written and directed two short films. She played Kristin Guthrie in a 1994 Lifetime TV movie, Moment of Truth: Cradle of Conspiracy. In 1996, she played the character Annie Mills Carman in the Lifetime Moment of Truth movie Justice For Annie. She briefly returned to regular television with a recurring role in the 2002–03 season of The West Wing, portraying Elsie Snuffin, the stepsister and assistant of Deputy White House Communications Director Will Bailey
Will Bailey
William "Will" Bailey, is a fictional character played by Joshua Malina on the television serial drama The West Wing, holding various posts in the White House Office of Communications, Office of the Vice President and a backbencher Congressman .-Character biography:Will grew up in Belgium, as his...
.
McKellar appeared in lingerie
Lingerie
Lingerie are fashionable and possibly alluring undergarments.Lingerie usually incorporates one or more flexible, stretchy materials like Lycra, nylon , polyester, satin, lace, silk and sheer fabric which are not typically used in more functional, basic cotton undergarments.The term in the French...
in the July 2005 edition of Stuff
Stuff (magazine)
Stuff is a men's magazine featuring reviews of consumer electronics, and other articles of interest to a predominantly male audience.- UK edition :...
magazine after readers voted her the '90s star they would most like to see in lingerie. McKellar explained that she agreed to the shoot in part to obtain "grittier roles".
In June 2006, Lifetime Television
Lifetime Television
Lifetime Television, often referred to as Lifetime TV, or most commonly, Lifetime, is an American cable television specialty channel devoted to movies, sitcoms and dramas, all of which are either geared toward women or feature women in lead roles. The cable network is owned by A&E Television Networks...
announced that McKellar would star in a Lifetime movie and web-based series titled Inspector Mom about a mother who solves mysteries. In an interview in the November 17, 2006 issue of TV Guide
TV Guide
TV Guide is a weekly American magazine with listings of TV shows.In addition to TV listings, the publication features television-related news, celebrity interviews, gossip and film reviews and crossword puzzles...
, McKellar said that two TV movies and ten webisode
Webisode
A webisode is a short episode which airs initially as Internet television, either download or stream as opposed to first airing on broadcast or cable television. The format can be used as a preview, a promotion, as part of a collection of shorts, or a commercial.A webisode can be an episode...
s of Inspector Mom were being produced.
McKellar has provided the voices for two characters in three video games: Jubilee
Jubilee (comics)
Jubilation "Jubilee" Lee is a fictional character, a Marvel Comics superheroine associated with the X-Men.A mutant, Jubilee had the superhuman power to generate "fireworks" of explosive plasma. A teenage "mall rat," she was the X-Men's youngest member in the early 1990s, often playing sidekick to...
in X-Men Legends
X-Men Legends
X-Men Legends is an action role-playing video game developed by Raven Software and published by Activision. It was released on the GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox consoles in the fall of . Barking Lizards Technologies developed the N-Gage port of the game, which was released in early...
(2004), and Invisible Woman
Invisible Woman
Susan "Sue" Storm Richards is a fictional character, a Marvel Comics superheroine created by writer Stan Lee and artist/co-writer Jack Kirby. The character first appeared in Fantastic Four #1 in November 1961, and was the first female superhero created by Marvel in the Silver Age of Comics...
in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance is an action role-playing game developed for PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox and Xbox 360 by Raven Software and published by Activision. The game was simultaneously ported to the PlayStation Portable and Wii by Vicarious Visions, and to Microsoft Windows by Beenox...
(2006) and Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 (2009).
On the August 1, 2007, edition of the Don and Mike Show, a WJFK-FM
WJFK-FM
WJFK-FM, known on-air as 106.7 The Fan, is a sports radio-formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Manassas, Virginia, serving the metro Washington DC area...
radio program out of Washington, D.C., McKellar announced plans that the producers of How I Met Your Mother
How I Met Your Mother
How I Met Your Mother is an American sitcom that premiered on CBS on September 19, 2005, created by Craig Thomas and Carter Bays.As a framing device, the main character, Ted Mosby with narration by Bob Saget, in the year 2030 recounts to his son and daughter the events that led to his meeting...
were planning to bring her back for a recurring role (she guest-starred on the show in late 2005 in "The Pineapple Incident
The Pineapple Incident
"The Pineapple Incident" is the 10th episode in the first season of the television series How I Met Your Mother. It originally aired on November 28, 2005...
"). She appeared in the October 8, 2007, episode titled "Third Wheel
Third Wheel
"Third Wheel" is the third episode in the third season of the television series How I Met Your Mother and 47th overall. It originally aired on October 8, 2007.- Plot :...
", as well as an appearance on the show The Big Bang Theory
The Big Bang Theory
The Big Bang Theory is an American sitcom created by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, both of whom serve as executive producers on the show, along with Steven Molaro. All three also serve as head writers...
.
In 2008, she starred in Heatstroke
Heatstroke (film)
Heatstroke is a Sci Fi Channel original movie. The film stars D. B. Sweeney and Danica McKellar. It was made by the team that made Farscape. The film was written by Richard Manning and David Kemper, produced by David Kemper, and directed by Andrew Prowse.-Plot:A retired model and an elite commando...
, a Sci-Fi Channel
Syfy
Syfy , formerly known as the Sci-Fi Channel and SCI FI, is an American cable television channel featuring science fiction, supernatural, fantasy, reality, paranormal, wrestling, and horror programming. Launched on September 24, 1992, it is part of the entertainment conglomerate NBCUniversal, a...
original movie about searching for alien life on Earth.
McKellar, , is one of the stars commenting on the occurrences of the new millennium in VH1
VH1
VH1 or Vh1 is an American cable television network based in New York City. Launched on January 1, 1985 in the old space of Turner Broadcasting's short-lived Cable Music Channel, the original purpose of the channel was to build on the success of MTV by playing music videos, but targeting a slightly...
's I Love the New Millennium, and as of 2009 is the math correspondent for Brink
Brink (television series)
Brink, stylized as brink., was an American news documentary television series that was produced by CBS Eye Too Productions for the Science Channel and that originally aired from November 28, 2008 to August 25, 2009...
, a program by the Science Channel about upcoming technology.
McKellar has also become a very experienced voice actress.
Mathematics
McKellar studied mathematics at UCLAUniversity of California, Los Angeles
The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA. It was founded in 1919 as the "Southern Branch" of the University of California and is the second oldest of the ten campuses...
, graduating with highest honors (summa cum laude) in 1998. As an undergraduate, she coauthored a scientific paper
Academic publishing
Academic publishing describes the subfield of publishing which distributes academic research and scholarship. Most academic work is published in journal article, book or thesis form. The part of academic written output that is not formally published but merely printed up or posted is often called...
with Professor Lincoln Chayes and fellow student Brandy Winn. Their results are termed the 'Chayes–McKellar–Winn theorem'. Referring to the mathematical abilities of his student coauthors, Chayes was quoted in The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
as saying, "I thought that the two were really, really first-rate." McKellar's Erdős number
Erdos number
The Erdős number describes the "collaborative distance" between a person and mathematician Paul Erdős, as measured by authorship of mathematical papers.The same principle has been proposed for other eminent persons in other fields.- Overview :...
is four. Mckeller is even one of the few people with an Erdős-Bacon number
Erdos-Bacon number
A person's Erdős–Bacon number is the sum of one's Erdős number—which measures the "collaborative distance" in authoring mathematical papers between that person and Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős—and one's Bacon number—which represents the number of links, through roles in...
, which combines an Erdős number with a Bacon Number (as in the game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon
Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon
Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon is a trivia game based on the concept of the small world phenomenon and rests on the assumption that any individual involved in the Hollywood, California film industry can be linked through his or her film roles to actor Kevin Bacon within six steps. The name of the game...
) since she also has a Bacon number of 2,making her Erdos-Bacon number a 6.
Books
McKellar is the author of The New York Times bestselling book Math Doesn't Suck: How to Survive Middle-School Math without Losing Your Mind or Breaking a Nail, that encourages girls in middle school to enjoy and succeed at mathematics. The book has been favorably reviewed by Tara C. Smith, the founder of Iowa Citizens for Science and a professor of epidemiology at the University of IowaUniversity of Iowa
The University of Iowa is a public state-supported research university located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. It is the oldest public university in the state. The university is organized into eleven colleges granting undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees...
. In an interview with Smith, McKellar said that she wrote the book "to show girls that math is accessible and relevant, and even a little glamorous" and to counteract "damaging social messages telling young girls that math and science aren't for them".
McKellar was named Person of the Week on World News with Charles Gibson
World News with Charles Gibson
ABC World News is the flagship daily evening program of ABC News, the news division of the American Broadcasting Company television network in the United States. Currently, the weekday editions are anchored by Diane Sawyer and the weekend editions are anchored by David Muir. The program has been...
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.
McKellar's second book, Kiss My Math: Showing Pre-Algebra Who's Boss, was released on August 5, 2008. The book's target audience is girls in the 7th through 9th grades. Her third book, Hot X: Algebra Exposed! was published on August 3, 2010, and is aimed at girls in the 8th-10th grade, or even adults who want to learn algebra.
All three of McKellar's books made it to The New York Times children's bestseller list.
Personal life
She married composer Mike Verta on March 22, 2009, in La Jolla, California; the couple had dated since 2001. They had their first child on September 7, 2010, a boy they named Draco.Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | The Twilight Zone | Nola | Segment: "Her Pilgrim Soul" |
| 1987 | The Twilight Zone | Deidre Dobbs | Episode: "Shelter Skelter Shelter Skelter "Shelter Skelter" is the second segment of the thirty-third episode "Shelter Skelter" is the second segment of the thirty-third episode "Shelter Skelter" is the second segment of the thirty-third episode (the ninth episode of the second season (1986–1987) of the television series The New Twilight... " |
| 1988 | The Wonder Years The Wonder Years The Wonder Years is an American television comedy-drama created by Carol Black and Neal Marlens. It ran for six seasons on ABC from 1988 through 1993. The pilot aired on January 31, 1988 after ABC's coverage of Super Bowl XXII.... |
Winnie Cooper | 88 episodes (1988–1993) |
| 1989 | The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! is an American television series based upon Nintendo's Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario Bros. 2 video games. It was originally broadcast via first-run syndication to mostly independent or Fox television stations from September 4, 1989, to December 1, 1989, with... |
Patty | Episode: "Day of the Orphan/King Mario of Cramalot" |
| 1990 | Camp Cucamonga Camp Cucamonga Camp Cucamonga is a made-for-television movie that aired on September 23, 1990, on NBC.... |
Lindsey Scott | TV movie |
| 1992 | Captain Planet and the Planeteers Captain Planet and the Planeteers Captain Planet is the title character of the series. In the beginning of the series, Gaia assembles a modern-day team of "Planeteers" from several nations... |
Lisa (voice) | Episode: "A Formula for Hate" |
| Sidekicks | Lauren | ||
| 1994 | Babylon 5 Babylon 5 Babylon 5 is an American science fiction television series created, produced and largely written by J. Michael Straczynski. The show centers on a space station named Babylon 5: a focal point for politics, diplomacy, and conflict during the years 2257–2262... |
Aria Tensus | Episode: "The War Prayer The War Prayer (Babylon 5) "The War Prayer" is an episode from the first season of the science fiction television series Babylon 5. The title of the episode comes from the Mark Twain story of the same name.-Synopsis:... " |
| Moment of Truth: Cradle of Conspiracy Moment of Truth: Cradle of Conspiracy Moment of Truth: Cradle of Conspiracy is a 1994 television film directed by Gabrielle Beaumont. The film is a part of the Moment of Truth franchise. Filming took place in Los Angeles.- Plot :... |
Kristin Guthrie | TV movie | |
| Walker, Texas Ranger Walker, Texas Ranger Walker, Texas Ranger is an American television action crime drama series created by Leslie Greif and Paul Haggis, and starring Chuck Norris as a member of the Texas Ranger Division. The show aired on CBS in the spring of 1993, with the first season consisting of three pilot episodes. Eight full... |
Laurie Maston | Episode: "Stolen Lullaby" | |
| Sirens Sirens (TV series) Sirens is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC in 1993, and then in syndication from 1994 to 1995.-Synopsis:Sirens focused on the work and lives of three rookie female Pittsburgh Police officers... |
Allison Trent | Episode: "Victims" | |
| 1996 | Justice for Annie: A Moment of Truth Movie Justice for Annie: A Moment of Truth Movie Justice for Annie: A Moment of Truth Movie is a 1996 television film directed by Noel Nosseck. The film, based on actual events, is a part of the Moment of Truth franchise and was also made as Death Benefit . Filming took place in Toronto.-Plot:... |
Annie Mills Carman | TV movie |
| 1998 | The Love Boat: The Next Wave The Love Boat: The Next Wave The Love Boat: The Next Wave is an American television series which was based on the ABC sitcom The Love Boat. The series aired on UPN from 1998 to 1999.-Plot:... |
Mary Dutton | Episode: "How Long Has This Been Going On?" |
| Working Working (TV series) Working was an American situation comedy that aired on NBC from 1997 to 1999. The series was created and executive produced by Michael Davidoff and Bill Rosenthal.-Synopsis:... |
Jolie | Episode: "As Bad as It Gets" | |
| 1999 | Episode: "She Loves Me Yeah, Yeah, Yeah" | ||
| Random Play | Daughter | Episode: 1.4 | |
| 2000 | Static Shock Static Shock Static Shock is an American animated television series produced by Warner Bros. Animation. It premiered in September 2000 on the Kids' WB! block and ran for four seasons, with a total of 52 half-hour episodes.... |
Freida Goren (voice) | 14 episodes (2000–2004) |
| 2001 | Good Neighbor Good Neighbor Good Neighbor A.K.A The Killer Next Door is a 2001 thriller with Billy Dee Williams, Danica McKeller, Tobin Bell.-Cast:* Billy Dee Williams as Sgt. Paul Davidson.* Danica McKellar as Molly Wright.* Tobin Bell as Geoffrey Martin.... |
Molly Wright | |
| The Division The Division The Division is an American Lifetime Television original series about a team of women police officers in the San Francisco Police Department. The series premiered on January 7, 2001 and ended on June 28, 2004 after 88 episodes.-Synopsis:... |
Wendy | Episode: "Don't Ask" | |
| XCU: Extreme Close Up XCU: Extreme Close Up -Cast:*Susan Egan as Karen Webber*Sarah Chalke as Jane Bennett*Jay Michael Ferguson as Dylan Dean*Reggie Lee as Nuey Phan*Danica McKellar as Sarah*Ellina McCormick as Cody Ironwood*A. J. Buckley as Terrance "T-Bone" Tucker... |
Sarah | ||
| Speechless... | Dana Woodman | ||
| Even Stevens Even Stevens Even Stevens is an American comedy television series that aired on Disney Channel with a total of three seasons and 65 episodes from June 17, 2000, to June 2, 2003... |
Sandrine | Episode: "Sibling Rivalry" | |
| 2002 | Black Hole | Rachael | |
| Sex and the Teenage Mind | Debbie | ||
| Reality School | Sexy Sally | ||
| Jane White Is Sick & Twisted Jane White Is Sick & Twisted Jane White Is Sick & Twisted is a 2002 comedy film produced by The Asylum, starring Kim Little. It is one of few films by the studio not to be made to capitalize on another film, and is also one of few Asylum films to have a theatrical release.- Plot :... |
Tiffany | ||
| The Year That Trembled | Pam Hatch | ||
| Hip, Edgy, Sexy, Cool | Sissie | ||
| Justice League Justice League (TV series) Justice League is an American animated television series about a team of superheroes which ran from 2001 to 2004 on Cartoon Network. The show was produced by Warner Bros. Animation. It is based on the Justice League of America and associated comic book characters published by DC Comics... |
Sapphire Stagg (voice) | Episode: "Metamorphosis: Part 1" Episode: "Metamorphosis: Part 2" |
|
| The West Wing | Elsie Snuffin | 8 episodes (2002–2003) | |
| 2004 | King of the Hill King of the Hill King of the Hill is an American animated dramedy series created by Mike Judge and Greg Daniels, that ran from January 12, 1997, to May 6, 2010, on Fox network. It centers on the Hills, a working-class Methodist family in the fictional small town of Arlen, Texas... |
Sharona (voice) | Episode: "My Hair Lady" |
| Misty (voice) | Episode: "Cheer Factor" | ||
| Raising Genius Raising Genius Raising Genius is a comedy starring Justin Long, Wendie Malick, Ed Begley, Jr., Stephen Root, Danica McKellar, Mark DeCarlo, Tippi Hedren, Shirley Jones, Clint Howard, and Sam Huntington about a teenage genius who locks himself in his bathroom for three months, in order to work out his formulas... |
Lacy Baldwin | ||
| Game Over Game Over (TV series) Game Over is an American computer-animated television series created by David Sacks, produced by Carsey-Werner Productions, and broadcast on UPN in 2004... |
Elsa / Renee (voice) | TV series | |
| Century City Century City (TV series) Century City is an American science fiction-legal drama television series set in Los Angeles in the year 2030.-Synopsis:The show follows the legal team of Crane, Constable, McNeil & Montero... |
Sally | Episode: "Without a Tracer" | |
| Intermission Intermission (film) Intermission is a 2003 Irish comedy crime film directed by John Crowley which tells a story of a young couple and people surrounding them. The film is set in Dublin, Ireland and is filmed in a TV drama style with several storylines crossing over one another during the course of the film.Mark O'Rowe... |
Sleepwalker | ||
| Quiet Kill | Pet Shop Girl | ||
| Eve Eve (TV series) Eve is an American sitcom starring Eve, Jason Winston George, Ali Landry, Natalie Desselle-Reid, Brian Hooks and Sean Maguire. That aired on the UPN network from September 15, 2003 to May 11, 2006, with 66 episodes produced spanning 3 seasons... |
Claudia | Episode: "Friend or Foe?" | |
| 2005 | NCIS NCIS (TV series) NCIS, formerly known as NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service, is an American police procedural drama television series revolving around a fictional team of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which conducts criminal investigations involving the U.S... |
Erin Kendall | Episode: "Witness" |
| Jack & Bobby Jack & Bobby Jack & Bobby is an American television series that aired on The WB network. It featured two brothers, one of whom would become President of the United States, serving from 2041 to 2049... |
Keirsten | Episode: "And Justice for All" | |
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Rosemary Wyatt | Episode: "Moving Day" | |
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Natalie Pascal | Episode: "Feeling No Pain" | |
| Path of Destruction Path of Destruction (film) Path of Destruction is a 2005 made-for-TV TBS original film. It concerns a nanotechnology experiment gone awry.-Plot:After the government cuts funding to a nanotechnology project, the fictional company StarkCorp stores samples on an oil rig near Alaska. However, an accident releases the... |
Katherine Stern | TV movie | |
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Trudy | Episode: "The Pineapple Incident The Pineapple Incident "The Pineapple Incident" is the 10th episode in the first season of the television series How I Met Your Mother. It originally aired on November 28, 2005... " |
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| 2006 | Cyberchase Cyberchase Cyberchase is an American educational television series for children age 6-12, that teaches children discrete mathematics. The show airs on Public Broadcasting Service and PBS Kids GO! in the United States. Seasons one through five were produced by Thirteen/WNET New York and Nelvana... |
Wanda | Episode: "Designing Mr. Perfect" |
| Bongee Bear and the Kingdom of Rhythm Bongee Bear and the Kingdom of Rhythm Bongee Bear and the Kingdom of Rhythm is a 2006 American animated musical film, by Yankee Films. It is produced by Brian Zemrak and has a running time of 72 minutes.-Cast:*Rob Paulsen - Bongee Bear *Debi Derryberry - Priness Katrina... |
Brittany (The Flower Shop Lady) | ||
| Inspector Mom | Maddie Monroe | 10 episodes (2006–2007) + TV movie | |
| 2007 | Inspector Mom: Kidnapped in Ten Easy Steps | Maddie Monroe | TV movie |
| Random! Cartoons | Katerina "Kat" Metropoulos (voice) | Episode: "Girls on the Go!" | |
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Trudy | Episode: "Third Wheel Third Wheel "Third Wheel" is the third episode in the third season of the television series How I Met Your Mother and 47th overall. It originally aired on October 8, 2007.- Plot :... " |
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Emily | ||
| 2008 | Heatstroke Heatstroke (film) Heatstroke is a Sci Fi Channel original movie. The film stars D. B. Sweeney and Danica McKellar. It was made by the team that made Farscape. The film was written by Richard Manning and David Kemper, produced by David Kemper, and directed by Andrew Prowse.-Plot:A retired model and an elite commando... |
Caroline | |
| 2009 | 21 and a Wake-Up | Jenny Valentine | |
| 2010 | The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory is an American sitcom created by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, both of whom serve as executive producers on the show, along with Steven Molaro. All three also serve as head writers... |
Abby | Episode: "The Psychic Vortex" |
| Scooby-Doo! Abracadabra-Doo Scooby-Doo! Abracadabra-Doo Scooby-Doo! Abracadabra-Doo is the fourteenth of a series of direct-to-video animated films based upon the Scooby-Doo Saturday morning cartoons. It was produced in 2009 by Warner Bros. Animation and it was released on February 16, 2010. It made its television debut on July 10, 2010 on Cartoon... |
Madelyn Dinkley (voice) | Video | |
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Miss Martian Miss Martian Miss Martian is a superhero in the . Miss Martian was created by Geoff Johns and Tony Daniel and first appeared in Teen Titans #37 . Miss Martian is named "Megan Morse" after Marvel Comics associate editor Ben Morse's wife, Megan... |
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| 2011 | G.I. Joe: Renegades G.I. Joe: Renegades G.I. Joe: Renegades is an American animated television series based on the G.I. Joe toy franchise. The series premiered on November 26, 2010 on The Hub. The series aired on Teletoon in Canada.... |
Sister Leah | Episode: "Brothers of Light" |
External links
- Interview with McKellar about her theorem at NPRNPRNPR, formerly National Public Radio, is a privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization that serves as a national syndicator to a network of 900 public radio stations in the United States. NPR was created in 1970, following congressional passage of the Public Broadcasting...
- February 2006 Proof and Prejudice: Women in Mathematics Conference, at which McKellar was a speaker
- Official website of her book, Math Doesn't Suck
- Official website of her book, Kiss My Math
- Science Friday for September 21, 2007 with McKellar among the guests
- Public School Insights Interview with McKellar about girls and math
- Danica McKeller's blog
- Official Website