Yvonne Joyce Craig
Yvonne Joyce Craig, May 16 1937 until August 17, 2015. She was an American actor and ballet dancer best known for her roles as Batgirl on the 1960s ' television show Batman and Marta, the Orion slave girl Marta as seen in Star Trek's episode "Whom Gods Deceive" (1969). The Huffington Post called her "a pioneer of female superheroes" for television. Yvonne Craig was raised in Columbus and was born in Taylorville in Illinois. In 1951, her family relocated to the Oak Cliff neighborhood in Dallas, Texas, where she was a student at W. H. Adamson High School as well as Sunset High School, from where she failed to complete her studies due to the absence of "a single PE credit". After being spotted by Alexandra Danilova, a ballerina and teacher, Craig joined the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo as the youngest corps de ballet member. It was a great training that enabled her to do stunts in the role of Batgirl. She left the ballet troupe in the year 1957 "o...