Yvonne Joyce Craig
Yvonne Joyce Craig (May 16, 1936 until August 17, 2015), was an American actress, ballet dancer and choreographer. She is best remembered for her roles in Batman's series of the 1960s on TV Batman and Marta the Orion slave girl wearing green skin in Star Trek's 1969 episode "Whom Gods Destruction". The Huffington Post referred to her as "a pioneer in female super heroes" on TV. 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 was not able to graduate as she didn't have "one credits for PE". Craig was found by Alexandra Danilova (a ballerina and teacher) and was accepted into the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo and became its youngest member of the corps de ballet. The training helped her in her stunt work while acting as Batgirl. In 1957, she resigned from the ballet company due to an issue ab...