Yvonne Joyce Craig
Yvonne Joyce Craig, May 16 1937 - - August 17, 2015. Craig was an American actress and ballet-dancer popular for her performances as Batgirl on the 1960s TV show Batman and Marta her character, Marta, the Orion slave girl Marta who appeared in the Star Trek episode "Whom Gods Deceive" (1969). The Huffington Post called her "a pioneer in female superheroes for television." Yvonne Craig was born in Taylorville, Illinois, and was raised in Columbus, Ohio. Her family in 1951 moved to the Oak Cliff neighborhood in Dallas, Texas, where she attended W. H. Adamson High School and then Sunset High School, from which she didn't be able to graduate due to the absence of "a single PE credit". Craig was found by Alexandra Danilova (a ballerina and teacher) and was accepted into the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo and became its youngest corps de ballet member. This training was helpful in her stunt work while acting as Batgirl. She quit the ballet company in the year 1...