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Jun 27, 2014 · In a callback to one of the most entertaining nights of the season, Disney Night, Danica McKellar & Valentin Chmerkovskiy once again performed to "Be Our Guest" from the Disney classic,...
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Apr 14, 2014 · Dancing With The Stars Season 18 WEEK 5 ~ Danica Mckellar & Valentin Chmerkovskiy SCORES ~ DISNEY NIGHT ~ 4-14-14 ~ DWTS HD.
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May 21, 2014 · Danica MCKellar & Val Chmerkovskiy interviewed by AfterBuzz TV Host JC Rubio minutes after the Dancing With The Stars Tuesday May 19th, 2014 Grand Finale. For more of your favorite...
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Born in La Jolla, California, McKellar moved with her family to Los Angeles when she was eight. Her mother Mahalia was a homemaker; her father Christopher is a real estate developer. Her mother's ancestry is Portuguese (via the Azores and Madeira islands); her father's ancestry is Scottish, Irish, French, German, and Dutch. Danica and her sister Cr...
Early Career
At age seven, McKellar enrolled in weekend acting classes for children at the Lee Strasberg Institute in Los Angeles. In her teens, she landed a prominent role in The Wonder Years, an American television comedy-drama that ran for six seasons on ABC, from 1988 to 1993. She played Gwendolyn "Winnie" Cooper, the main love interest of Kevin Arnold (played by Fred Savage) on the show. Her first kiss was with Fred Savage in an episode of The Wonder Years. She later said, "My first kiss was a pretty...
Later Career
McKellar has said that she found it difficult to move from being a child actor to an adult actor." Since leaving The Wonder Years, McKellar has had several guest roles in television series (including one with former co-star Fred Savage in Working), and has written and directed two short films. She appeared in two Lifetime TV movies in the Moment of Truth series, playing Kristin Guthrie in 1994's Cradle of Conspiracy and Annie Mills Carman in 1996's Justice for Annie. She briefly returned to r...
McKellar studied at UCLA and earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics with honors (summa cum laude) in 1998. As an undergraduate, she coauthored a scientific paper with Professor Lincoln Chayes and fellow student Brandy Winn entitled "Percolation and Gibbs states multiplicity for ferromagnetic Ashkin-Teller models on \mathbb{Z}^2." Their results...
She married composer Mike Verta 22 March 2009, in La Jolla, California; the couple had dated since 2001. They had their first child, a son named Draco, in 2010, McKellar filed for divorce from Verta in June 2012, with the dissolution becoming final in February 2013. On 16 July 2014, she was engaged to her boyfriend Scott Sveslosky, a partner in the...
On 4 March 2014, she was announced to be joining Season 18 of Dancing with the Stars. She paired with Valentin Chmerkovskiy. McKellar and Chmerkovskiy were eliminated in Week 8, finishing in 6th place.
"Dancing with the Stars" Disney Night (TV Episode 2014) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Oct 10, 2022 · Here's every song and dance performed on 'Dancing With the Stars' Disney+ night, including music from 'Hamilton', 'Coco', 'Hocus Pocus 2,' and more.
Apr 14, 2014 · Disney Night: Directed by Alex Rudzinski. With Tom Bergeron, Erin Andrews, Len Goodman, Bruno Tonioli. The couples are back with their original partners and Donny Osmond joins the judges panel for Disney night. A few Disney characters find their way into some of the dances.
