Yvonne Joyce Craig
Yvonne Joyce Craig, May 16 1937 until August 17, 2015. Craig was an American actress and ballet-dancer most well-known for her role as Batgirl in the 1960s' TV series Batman and Marta her character, the Orion slave girl Marta as seen in Star Trek's episode "Whom Gods Deceive" (1969). The Huffington Post called her "a pioneer in female superheroes" on television. Yvonne Craig was born and raised in Taylorville, Illinois. 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 where she failed to finish her education due to the absence of "a single PE credit". After being discovered by Alexandra Danilova, a ballerina as well as an instructor, Craig joined the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo as the youngest corps de ballet participant. As she performed as Batgirl the training proved very beneficial. In 1957, she resigned from the ballet company "over a dis...