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Danica McKellar (born January 3, 1975), is an
United States|American actor|actress best known
for her role as Winnie Cooper in the television
show, The Wonder Years.

Born in La Jolla, California, McKellar and sister
Crystal McKellar have maintained a friendly
competition to see who gets more acting jobs. In
fact, when the actress who would play Winnie had
to be chosen, the only two actresses who were
still in competition were the McKellar sisters.

Danica and her family moved to Los Angeles,
California|Los Angeles when she was 8, and soon
after, she and her sister began acting. 

McKellar studied at UCLA, majoring in mathematics,
and graduated summa cum laude in 1998.  She
coauthored a scientific paper1 which
appeared in a peer-reviewed physics journal.
Referring to the mathematical abilities of
McKellar and her fellow student Brandy Winn, one
of her math teachers, Professor Lincoln Chayes,
was quoted in the New York Times2 as
saying, "I thought that the two were really,
really first rate."

Since then, as well as several guest roles in
television series, she has written and directed
two short films.  She has returned to regular
television with a role in The West Wing
(television)|The West Wing.

She appears in lingerie for a pictorial for the
July 2005 edition of Stuff (magazine) | Stuff
Magazine.

Her acting credits include:

*The Twilight Zone (as Debbie Dobs) 1985-1986
*Volkswagen commercial, 1986
*Wide World Of Kids, (as herself), 1987-1990 
*The Wonder Years, 1988-1993
*No More Rhyme (Debbie Gibson|Deborah 'Debbie'
Gibson video) 1989
*Camp Cucamonga (Tv movie, as Lindsey Scott) 1990
*Captain Planet (animated, voice only) 1992
*Sidekicks (feature movie, as Lauren) 1993
*Walker, Texas Ranger (played Lori in one episode)
1994
*Cradle Of Conspiracy (tv movie, she also played
Lori) 1994
*Sirens (film)|Sirens, 1994
*Justice For Annie (tv movie, as Annie) 1995
*Working (Jolie in two episodes) 1997
*The Love Boat The Next Wave (played a nun in one
episode) 1997
*Happy Hour (television series)|Happy Hour (as
herself) 1999
*Grease (play) (as Rizzo) 1999
*The West Wing (TV series)|The West Wing 2002-

== References ==
1 Chayes, L., McKellar, D. & Winn, B.
(1998) Percolation and Gibbs states multiplicity
for ferromagnetic Ashkin–Teller models on Z.
Journal of Physics A: Mathematics and General, 31,
9055–9063.
http://www.danicamckellar.com/math/percolation.pdf
Full text as PDF

2 Kenneth Chang, "Between Series, an
Actress Became a Superstar (in Math)," New York
Times, July 19, 2005.

==External link==

* http://www.danicamckellar.com/
DanicaMcKellar.com
* http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005211/ IMDb: Danica
McKellar