Yvonne Joyce Craig was an American ballet dancer and actress best known for her role as Batgirl in the 1960s television series Batman and as the green-skinned Orion slave girl Marta in the Star Trek episode “Whom Gods Destroy.” The Huffington Post called her “a pioneer of female superheroes” for television.
Today Cool Classics looks at the Life and Career of Yvonne Craig. Best known for her roles on Classic Television Shows like playing Batgirl on the Batman 1966 Series and The Green Orion Slave Girl from Star Trek TOS.
Did you know that she was also in 2 Elvis movies? Kissin Cousins and It Happened at the World’s Fair
Starting out as a Ballet Dance, she broke into Hollywood thru a Western and never looked back. Almost 100 TV appearance and we cover a bunch of them, such as McHale’s Navy, My Favorite Martian, Mod Squad, 77 Sunset Strip, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Kojak, Starsky and Hutch, Fantasy Island and More.
