Danica McKellar
Danica McKellar
Danica Mae McKellaris an American actress, author, mathematician, and education advocate. She played Kevin Arnold's on-off girlfriend Winnie Cooper in the television series The Wonder Years, and later wrote four non-fiction books: Math Doesn't Suck, Kiss My Math, Hot X: Algebra Exposed and Girls Get Curves: Geometry Takes Shape, which encourage middle-school and high-school girls to have confidence and succeed in mathematics...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth3 January 1975
CitySan Diego, CA
CountryUnited States of America
Let's make math fun and sexy and glamorous. Smart is sexy, that's one of my main messages.
I love acting. Acting is a true love of mine, acting and math. Although they are both creative, they use very different sides of your brain. And I love both. Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.
A lot of girls think they have to choose between being the smart geeky type or the beautiful bimbo.
Math has a lot of negative stereotypes, but it can actually be fun and incredibly empowering.
There is an epidemic right now of girls dumbing themselves down... in middle school because they think it makes them attractive.
Confidence is one of the sexiest things in guys and girls.
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.
I want girls to feel the confidence you get from being smart.
I learned my French through school. I was lucky in that the tutor on 'The Wonder Years' set spoke fluent French.
I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
Math is the only place where truth and beauty mean the same thing.
I've been just eating very healthy, all organic, no sugar, white flour, nothing artificial. I'm being so incredibly strict... not a lot of meat!
I went to about one frat party a year. A year seemed to be enough time for me to forget how much I didn't like frat parties, and my friends would eventually convince me to go to one. Cheap beer, guys looking for a quick hook-up, and girls playing 'dumb' to get in on the hook-up. I just never got into it.
What I got which was unusual, especially as a child actress, was parents who believed that Hollywood was not that important. They told us education, family, health, all come first and they meant it.