Yvonne Joyce Craig
Yvonne Joyce Craig (May 16 1936 from 1936 to August 17 2015) was an American actress, ballet dancer and choreographer. She is best known for her roles in Batman's 1960s TV series 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" in the world of television. Yvonne Craig was born and was raised in Taylorville, Illinois. In 1951, her family moved to the Oak Cliff neighborhood in Dallas, Texas, where she attended W. H. Adamson High School and then Sunset High School, from which she didn't complete her studies due to the absence of "a single PE credit". After being spotted by Alexandra Danilova, a ballerina as well as an instructor, Craig joined the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo as its youngest member of the corps de ballet. This training was helpful when she did stunts playing Batgirl. She left the ballet company in th...