Yvonne Joyce Craig
Yvonne Joyce Craig (May 16 1936 from 1936 to August 17, 2015) was an American dancer, actress and choreographer. She is best remembered for her role in Batman's series of the 1960s on TV Batman and Marta the Orion slave girl wearing green skin, in the Star Trek 1969 episode "Whom Gods Destruction". The Huffington Post called her "a pioneer of female superheroes" for television. Yvonne Craig was born and was raised in Taylorville, Illinois. Her family in 1951 moved 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 which she was not able to be able to graduate due to the absence of "a single PE credit". After being discovered by Alexandra Danilova, a ballerina and teacher, Craig joined the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo as its youngest corps de ballet participant. It was an excellent training that enabled her to do stunts as Batgirl. In 1957, she resigned from the company...