Danica McKellar Net Worth

Danica McKellar's Quotes

• I learned my French through school. I was lucky in that the tutor on The Wonder Years (1988) set spoke fluent French.
• 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.
• When I originally entered UCLA, I had planned to go for a film major, but I kept finding myself taking math classes for fun, 'cause I missed them from high school!

Interesting Facts about Danica McKellar

1. Older sister of Crystal McKellar, whom she considers her best friend.
2. Graduated summa cum laude from UCLA with a BS in mathematics in June 1998.
3. Had a 1998 paper published in Britain's "Journal of Physics A: Mathematics & General" with UCLA professor Lincoln Chayes and student Brandy Winn that provided a mathematical proof for a theorem dealing with magnetism in two dimensions. Her Erdos number is, at most, four; her Bacon number, by comparison, is two.
4. Is fluent in French.
5. Was a member of the Alpha Chi chapter of Alpha Delta Pi sorority at UCLA.
6. Attended Jason Marsden's nuptials. [October 2004]
7. Her mother's ancestry is Portuguese (via the Azores and Madeira islands); her father's ancestry is Scottish, Irish, French, German, and Dutch.
8. Celebrity Judge for UCLA Spring Sing 2005.
9. Played the role of "Catherine" in a San Diego production of David Auburn's play "Proof". Catherine is an unlikely mathematical genius who writes a groundbreaking proof at a very young age; McKellar is also an unlikely mathematical genius (she was the only undergraduate invited to speak at Rutgers University's biannual Statistical Mechanics) who wrote a proof at a very young age.
10. Daughter of Mahaila McKellar and Christopher McKellar.
11. Stepsister of Christopher McKellar Jr. and Connor McKellar.
12. ABC Evening News (1953) named her "Person of the Week" for her book, "Math Doesn't Suck".
13. Did all her own dancing and lifts in "21 and a Wakeup" with partner Jamie Bayard, of So You Think You Can Dance (2005) fame.
14. Is now a two-time New York Times bestselling author with books "Kiss My Math" (2008) and "Math Doesn't Suck" (2007).
15. One of the few people to have both an Erdös number (the number of scientific-paper authors it takes to connect herself to the Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdös) AND a Bacon number (the the degree of separation between her and American actor Kevin Bacon). Many scientists and mathematicians have an Erdös number, and a great many actors have a Bacon number, but relatively few people have both.
16. Gave birth to her 1st child at age 35, a son Draco McKellar Verta on September 7, 2010. Child's father is her estranged husband, Mike Verta.
17. (June 4, 2012) Filed for divorce from Mike Verta, her husband of three years.
18. Reprised her role as Frieda Goren on the Kids WB series Static Shock (2000). [January 2004]
19. She had a recurring role as Elsie Snuffin on NBC's The West Wing (1999). [October 2002]
20. She played Catherine in the stage play "Proof" at the San Diego Repertory Theatre. [October 2003]