Yvonne Joyce Craig

Yvonne Joyce Craig, May 16 1937 until August 17, 2015. She was an American actress and ballet-dancer famous for her portrayals as Batgirl in the 1960s' TV series Batman and Marta as Marta, the Orion slave girl Marta, in Star Trek's episode "Whom Gods Deceive" (1969). The Huffington Post called her "a pioneer in female superheroes" for the screen. Yvonne Craig was born and was raised in Taylorville, Illinois. In 1951 , her family moved from Illinois to Dallas. She attended W. H. Adamson High School in Dallas as well as Sunset High School. However, she did not graduate as she didn't have "one credits for PE". Craig was discovered by Alexandra Danilova (a ballerina and teacher) and was accepted into the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo in 1951, becoming the youngest member of the corps de ballet. While she was performing as Batgirl and was a Batgirl, the lessons proved to be very helpful. She left the ballet troupe in 1957 "over a disagreement on casting changes" and moved to Los Angeles in the hopes of continuing her dancing career, but found herself playing film roles. Her first television roles was on the TV series Perry Mason ("The Case of the Lazy Lover") in 1958 alongside Neil Hamilton. Hamilton later played the role of Batgirl's stepfather Commissioner James Gordon. Soon after her appearance in The Young Land, The Gene Krupa Story (all 1959) and Gidget (all 1958) she was also a guest on Beverly Mills on the TV show Mr. Lucky (also 1959). Craig made an appearance with Bing Crosby in High Time (1960) as well as in Seven Women from Hell (1961) as a guest with Cesar Romero. In 1962, she was a guest star in the television show Western Laramie in the episode "The Long Road Back".Craig played the role of Elvis Presley in two films The other was It Happened at the World's Fair (1963) and Kissin Cousins (1964). In 1966, she was a part-time actress in Mars Needs Women. In 1967, she was a Russian ballet dancer in In Like Flint.



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