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Danica McKellar Biography

Danica Mae McKellar (born January 3, 1975) is an American actress, voice actress, mathematics writer, and education advocate. She played Kevin Arnold's on-off girlfriend Winnie Cooper in the television series The Wonder Years.

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The end of a marriage has got to be one of the saddest events one can experience. I've heard that the pain [of divorce] is second only to an actual death in the family, and that sounds about right.

Divorce, Experience, Family, Pain, Saddest, Sound

I've done a little directing, but I love acting more.

Acting, Directing, Done, Littles, Love

If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart. But you can be fun and fit and social and be really smart. And the smarter you are, the more capable you'll be to handle whatever challenges come up in life.

Beautiful, Believe, Challenges, Fit, Fun, Smart

Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind.

Brain, Gym, Like, Math, Mind

People talk about 'getting rid of the old image', and I guess there's some merit in that. But the truth is that people loved 'The Wonder Years' - I can't turn my back on it.

Merit, People, Talk, Truth, Years

By the end of an intense four years at UCLA, I had co-authored a new math proof, which the media, in fact, loved. As it turned out, math itself blazed my entry back into the spotlight and consequently into wonderful acting jobs like 'The West Wing' and others. You just never know, do you?

Jobs, Like, Math, Media, Ucla, Wing

I learned my French through school. I was lucky in that the tutor on 'The Wonder Years' set spoke fluent French.

Lucky, School, Set, Tutor, Wonder, Years

I know we can't always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural - no epidural, no interventions.

Fully, Hope, May, Medical, Surprise

A reciprocal of a fraction is found by flipping it upside down. If you want the reciprocal of a mixed number or a whole number, just convert it to an improper fraction, and then flip it!

Down, Flip, Found, Mixed, Numbers, Want

I've always been really cautious about guys who have a Winnie Cooper fantasy, and I'm so glad about that. I mean, I can count on one hand the guys I've been with. It was really challenging, but I never gave it up too soon, if you know what I mean.

Cautious, Challenging, Cooper, Guy, Hands, Mean

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!

Artificial, Healthy, Meat, Sugar, White

You can be obsessed with makeup and hair products and, you know, your appearance and still be absolutely making smart life decisions and work on your smarts, develop your smarts by studying something like math. Then you'll make much better decisions on the brands of clothing that you buy or whatever it is that you want.

Know, Makeup, Math, Obsessed, Smart

Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.

Acting, Career, Careers, First Love, Love

I used to love to go to the movies - I'd see two in a row. A few times I even snuck into the second movie after it started. . . now that I think about it, that's kind of like shoplifting! Needless to say, I still love going to the movies, but I don't sneak in anymore.

Anymore, Movie, Shoplifting, Thinking, Two, Used

My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.

Fun, Giving Up, Popular, Powerful, Way

Math has a lot of negative stereotypes, but it can actually be fun and incredibly empowering.

Empowering, Fun, Math, Negative

I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!

Acting, Angeles, Born, Couple, Diego, Years

I exercise at home - light cardio and yoga.

Exercise, Home, Yoga

This much I'm sure of. Chances for winning = 1 - (# of math students playing)
(# of math students cheering). That's a fraction.

Cheer, Cheering, Math, Students, Winning

The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.

Agent, Budgeted, Cameras, Giving, Publicist, Salary

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