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Yvonne Craig

Acting

Born May 16, 1937 · Taylorville, Illinois, USA

Died August 17, 2015

Also known as Yvonne Joyce Craig

Biography

Yvonne Joyce Craig was an American actress best known for her role as Barbara Gordon/Batgirl in the 1960s television series Batman. Other notable roles in her career include Dorothy Johnson in the 1963 movie It Happened at the World's Fair, Azalea Tatum in the 1964 movie Kissin' Cousins, and the green-skinned Orion Marta in the Star Trek episode "Whom Gods Destroy" (1969). The Huffington Post called her "a pioneer of female superheroes" for television. Craig was a philanthropist and "an advocate for workers unions, free mammograms, and equal pay for women".

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Filmography34 titles

Emergency!

1972

Star Trek

1966as Marta

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

1964

Perry Mason

1957as Patricia Faxon

The Wild Wild West

1965as Ecstasy La Joie

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

1962as Self - Guest

Starsky & Hutch

1975as Carol

The Six Million Dollar Man

1974as Lena Bannister

Batman

1966as Batgirl

Ballets Russes

2005

Kojak

1973as Liz

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

1964as Cecille Bergstrom

Eighteen and Anxious

1957as Gloria Dorothy McCormick

Land of the Giants

1968as Berna

Mannix

1967as Ada Lee Hayes

The Young Land

1959as Elena de la Madrid

Laramie

1959

Mr. Lucky

1959

How to Frame a Figg

1971as Glorianna Hastings

My Three Sons

1960

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

1959as Hazel Grimes

The Courtship of Eddie's Father

1969as Maryanne Atwater

In Like Flint

1967as Natasha, the Ballerina

The Big Valley

1965as Allie Kay

My Favorite Martian

1963as Louise

Ski Party

1965as Barbara Norris

Gidget

1959as Nan

It Happened at the World's Fair

1963as Dorothy Johnson

One of Our Spies Is Missing

1966as Wanda

Man with a Camera

1958

Advance to the Rear

1964as Ora (uncredited)

By Love Possessed

1961as Veronica Kovacs

Kissin' Cousins

1964as Azalea Tatum

Mars Needs Women

1968as Dr. Bolen