Yvonne Joyce Craig
Yvonne Joyce Craig (May 16, 1937 - August 17 15th, 2015) was an American actress and ballet dancer popular for her character as Batgirl in the 1960s' TV 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" on television. Yvonne Craig was raised in Columbus and was born in Taylorville in Illinois. Her family relocated in 1951 from Illinois to Dallas. There , she was a student at W. H. Adamson High School in Dallas and Sunset High School. However she did not graduate as she didn't have "one PE credit". Craig was a part of Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo in the role of the youngest dancer in the corps de ballerina, after being identified by Alexandra Danilova who is a dancer and teacher. As she performed as Batgirl, this training proved very beneficial. In 1957, she left the ballet company "over disagreements