- Born
- Birth nameDanielle Christine Fishel
- Height5′ 1″ (1.55 m)
- Danielle Christine Fishel was born on May 5, 1981, in Mesa, Arizona. She began acting professionally at the age of ten, during which she made many TV guest appearances and commercials. She was originally a guest star on the show Boy Meets World (1993), but Danielle added a spark that the show needed and she became a regular cast member shortly afterward. She played Topanga Lawrence on the show, the girlfriend of Cory Matthews. The show brought Danielle much attention even landing her face on the cover of "Seventeen" magazine. She was voted as one of Teen People's magazine hottest stars under the age of 21. She graduated from high school in 1999.
In 2014, fourteen years after the conclusion of "Boy," she reprised her role as Topanga, now the wife of Cory Matthews, in the show Girl Meets World (2014).- IMDb mini biography by: Bryce Smith <DreamActor@aol.com>
- SpousesJensen Karp(November 4, 2018 - present) (2 children)Tim Belusko(October 19, 2013 - March 17, 2016) (divorced)
- ChildrenChildAdler Lawrence KarpKeaton Joseph Karp
- ParentsRick FishelJennifer Fishel
- RelativesChristopher Fishel(Sibling)
- Full lips
- Large, expressive eyes.
- Originally cast as a guest star on the pilot of Boy Meets World (1993). The actress who was cast as Topanga Lawrence was not working out. She and another girl were asked to read on the spot. Danielle won the role.
- Claims that she and Ben Savage went on exactly one date, while filming Boy Meets World (1993) (1993-2000), and that, by the end of the date, they both decided that they would just stay friends.
- Revealed in an interview with a L.A. radio station that a former boyfriend, who was an actor and whom she dated almost 10 years prior, physically abused her (2008).
- Her 2013 wedding was said to be attended by fellow actors Ben Savage, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Matthew Lawrence and Betsy Randle.
- (December 20, 2007) Arrested in Newport Beach, California on a drunken driving warrant and released from jail shortly after her arrest.
- When you first get out of doing a show for a long time where you played a teenager, casting directors and producers all still look at you as being the character that you played for so long.
- I love the freedom of having my own space and my own place and doing things on my terms, and not really having to think about anybody else's schedule.
- I think the human mind is fascinating. I love figuring out why people are doing what they do.
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