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 over casting changes". Then, she moved to Los Angeles in hopes of being able to continue her career in dance. But she was soon cast in films roles. One of her first television performances was in the TV series Perry Mason ("The Case of the Lazy Lover") in 1958 with Neil Hamilton. Hamilton later was the Batgirl's stepfather, police Commissioner James Gordon. She was in three films shortly after, The Young Land, The Gene Krupa Story and Gidget (all 1959). Craig also appeared in the TV series Mr. Lucky, as Beverly Mills, in the episode "Little Miss Wow" also in 1959. Craig was seen with Bing Crosby and Seven Women from Hell (1960), where she was paired alongside Cesar Romero. In 1962, she was a guest star on the Western Laramie in the episode "The Long Road Back".Craig played the role of Elvis Presley in two films The other was It Happened at the World's Fair (1963) and Kissin Cousins (1964). She also starred in the science fiction film Mars Needs Women (1966) and appeared in In Like Flint (1967) as the role of a Russian ballet dancer opposite James Coburn.
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