Yvonne Joyce Craig
Yvonne Joyce Craig (May 16 1937 - 17 August in 2015) was an American dancer and actress best known for her role in the role of Batgirl in the 1960s' television series Batman as well as her role as the green-skinned Orion slave girl Marta in the Star Trek episode "Whom Gods Destroy" (1969). The Huffington Post called her "a pioneer of female superheroes" for television. Yvonne Craig was born and was raised in Taylorville, Illinois. In 1951 her family moved from Illinois to Dallas. There she attended W. H. Adamson High School in Dallas as well as Sunset High School. However she did not graduate as she didn't have "one credits for PE". Craig was accepted into Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo as the the youngest dancer in the corps de ballerina, after being identified by Alexandra Danilova who is a dancer and instructor. When she was playing Batgirl and was a Batgirl, the lessons proved extremely beneficial. In 1957, she left the ballet company due to an is...