Yvonne Joyce Craig
Yvonne Joyce Craig, May 16 1937 - August 17, 2015. She was an American dancer and actress who was famous for her portrayals as Batgirl on the 1960s TV show Batman and Marta who played the Orion slave girl Marta who appeared in the Star Trek episode "Whom Gods Deceive" (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 relocated to the Oak Cliff neighborhood in Dallas, Texas, where she went to W. H. Adamson High School and later Sunset High School, from which she was not able to finish her education due to the absence of "a single PE credit". Craig was accepted into Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo in the role of youngest corps de ballerina after being recognized by Alexandra Danilova who is a instructor and dancer. This was a great training for her when she was performing stunts playing Batgirl. In 1957, she resigned from the ballet company d...