Danica McKellar (b. 1975)
Then:
Girl-next-door Winnie Cooper, The Wonder Years.
Now:
"Math superstar."
FYI:
Author of Math Doesn't Suck: How to Survive Middle-School Math Without Losing Your Mind or Breaking a Nail. (2007)
Coauthored research paper entitled, "Percolation and Gibbs State Multiplicity for Ferromagnetic Ashkin-Teller Models in Two Dimensions."
Hailed as a "math superstar" by the New York Times.
Struck very un-mathemetician-like poses for Stuff magazine (2005).
Played a mathemetician in 2003 San Diego, California, stage production of Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Proof.
Graduate of UCLA (1998).
Holds bachelor's degree in mathematics.
Links:
Interview: Stuff magazine
TV Tome: The Wonder Years
The Wonder Years as an American Narrative
IMDb.com credits
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