Yvonne Joyce Craig
Yvonne Joyce Craig, May 16 1937 - - August 17, 2015. She was an American actor and ballet dancer famous for her portrayals as Batgirl in the 1960s' tv series Batman and Marta, 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" on television. Yvonne Craig was born in Taylorville, Illinois, and was raised in Columbus, Ohio. In 1951, her family relocated to the Oak Cliff neighborhood in Dallas, Texas, where she attended W. H. Adamson High School as well as Sunset High School, from where she failed to graduate due to the lack of "a single PE credit". Craig was identified by Alexandra Danilova (a ballerina and teacher) and was accepted into the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo as its youngest member of the corps de ballet. The training helped her when she was performing stunts acting as Batgirl. In 1957, she left the company "over an issue with changes...