 Danica McKellar continues to prove herself as an accomplished actress on film, television and the stage, and now her passion for mathematics has blossomed her into a two-time New York Times bestselling author. Check out her books Kiss My Math and Math Doesn't Suck.
Best known as "Winnie Cooper" on The Wonder Years and "Elsie Snuffin" on The West Wing, in August 2007 Danica was named "Person of the Week" by ABC World News with Charles Gibson for her latest role: author of the nationally bestselling book Math Doesn't Suck. Her groundbreaking book uses hip and entertaining examples to teach middle-school girls and their parents how to master many of the tough math concepts that are introduced in middle school - the time when young girls begin to shy away from math. And Danica's message to girls? Smart is sexy!
The book was such a success that Danica has now written the highly anticipated sequel, entitled Kiss My Math, which debuted in August, 2008 at No. 4 on the New York Times Best Seller List.
In addition to being ABC's "Person of the Week," Danica and her book have been featured in many highly-respected media outlets including a full-page feature in Newsweek as well as interviews on CNN, MSNBC and FOX News Channel, and morning shows including Good Morning America and The Today Show. Even prior to the book's release, Danica was honored in Britain's esteemed Journal of Physics and The New York Times for her work in mathematics, most notably for her role as co-author of a groundbreaking mathematical physics theorem which bears her name: The Chayes-McKellar-Winn Theorem, and which she completed while graduating summa cum laude from UCLA with a degree in Mathematics and garnering all its department's highest honors.
Danica continues to enjoy success with her first love - acting. She was recently seen in a recurring role in the CBS comedy How I Met Your Mother in the role of fun, oversexed "Trudy." She also recently starred in the Lifetime Movie Network's multi-media series entitled Inspector Mom, as the mischievous "Maddie Monroe." Inspector Mom includes two telefilms with ten web-episodes currently available on the LMN website. Most recently she completed the role of M.A.S. H. nurse "Jennie Valentine" in the Vietnam Drama 21 and a Wake Up, co-starring with Faye Dunaway.
Additional television roles include starring in the feature length SCI-FI Channel's Path of Destruction, SCI-Fi's Heatstroke and guest-starring on the critically-acclaimed NCIS and appearing on the series finale of the award winning NYPD Blue. She has also been seen in successful independent feature films such as Raising Genius with Wendie Malick and Justin Long, and also in Hack! with William Forsythe.
Danica makes time for theatre when she can and was last seen in 2006 in Mark Goffman's romantic comedy Me Too at Hollywood's Stella Adler Theatre. She also performed Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues and the Beverly Hills Coronet Theatre, and starred at The San Diego Repertory Theatre as "Catherine" in David Auburn's Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning play Proof.
Her voice work includes lending life to the character of "Jubliee" on the X-Men Legends video game along with Patrick Stewart and Lou Diamond Phillips, and the infamous "Invisible Woman" on Marvel: Ultimate Alliance. Danica is also a series regular on the WB's animated cartoon series Static Shock and has recurred on Fox's King of the Hill and Cartoon Network's Justice League.
Danica also recently released a yoga and meditation DVD collection, Daily Dose of Dharma. She teamed up with her Mother and world-renown meditation instructor Mahalia McKellar, and certified yoga instructor Christy Marsden for the DVDs which take viewers step-by-step towards a powerful reconnection of mind, body and soul.
Building upon her commitment to mathematics and children's charitable causes, Danica is the national spokesperson for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital's Math-A-Thon, which is a fundraiser that assists the hospital's continuing research for new treatments and cures for cancer, AIDS and other catastrophic diseases afflicting children. Danica also appears around the country as a speaker on mathematics education, a trend started in 2000 when Danica was invited to speak to a subcommittee of Congress on the importance of women in math and science.
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