Craig, Yvonne

Craig, Yvonne	Gender: F
Birthname	Yvonne Joyce Craig
born on	16 May 1937 at 05:30 (= 05:30 AM )
Place	Taylorville, Illinois, 39n33, 89w18
Timezone	CST h6w (is standard time)
	Rodden Rating A
	Collector: Scholfield
Astrology data	25°10' 15°19 Asc. 07°51'

Yvonne Craig,
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Yvonne Craig (circa 1967)

Biography

American actor renowned for playing librarian Barbara Gordon and her sexy alter ego Batgirl in the third and final season of 1960s television series Batman from September 1967 until March 1968. Other notable roles in Craig's career include Dorothy Johnson in the 1963 Elvis Presley movie It Happened at the World's Fair, Azalea Tatum in the 1964 Presley movie Kissin' Cousins and as the green-skinned Orion Marta in the Star Trek TV episode "Whom Gods Destroy" (1969). The Huffington Post called her "a pioneer of female superheroes" for television.

Yvonne Craig was raised in Columbus, Ohio. In 1951, her family moved to the Oak Cliff neighbourhood in Dallas, Texas, where she attended W. H. Adamson High School for a semester and then Sunset High School for three years, from which she did not graduate due to the lack of "a single PE credit". She had enough credits to get into college and attended University of California, Los Angeles.

After being discovered by Alexandra Danilova, a ballerina and instructor, he helped her gain a scholarship to the School of American Ballet in New York City. Craig joined the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo as its youngest corps de ballet member in 1954. She became a professional ballerina with the company for three years. This training was helpful when she performed stunts while playing Batgirl. She left the ballet company in 1957 "over a disagreement on casting changes" and moved to Los Angeles in the hopes of continuing her dancing career, but found herself cast in film roles.

Yvonne Craig was first married to Jimmy Boyd in 1960; they divorced in 1962. She died at age 78 at her home in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California on 17 August 2015 from breast cancer that had spread to her liver. She was survived by her second husband, Kenneth Aldrich, whom she married in 1988.

Link to Wikipedia biography

Relationships

associate relationship with Entertainment: Batman (TV series) (born 12 January 1966). Notes: Played Batgirl/Barbara Gordon, 1967-1968

associate relationship with Hickman, Dwayne (born 18 May 1934). Notes: She played five of his girlfriends in "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis"

Events

Death, Cause unspecified 17 August 2015 (Cancer, age 78)
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Source Notes

Sy Scholfield quotes from The Taylorville Daily Breeze Courier (Taylorville, Illinois), 17 May 1937, page 8; born to Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Craig at St. Vincent hospital.

Categories

Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Cancer (Breast, liver, terminal)

Family : Relationship : Marriage more than 15 Yrs (Second husband)

Family : Relationship : Marriage less than 3 Yrs (First husband)

Family : Relationship : Number of Marriages (Two)

Lifestyle : Financial : Gain - Grant, Scholarship, etc. (Scholarship to School of American Ballet)

Personal : Death : Illness/ Disease (Cancer)

Vocation : Beauty : Sex-symbol (Batgirl)

Vocation : Entertainment : Actor/ Actress (TV and film)

Vocation : Entertainment : Live Stage

Vocation : Entertainment : TV series/ Soap star (Barbara Gordon/Batgirl in "Batman")

Vocation : Entertainment : Voice-Over (Animated character)

Vocation : Entertain/Music : Dancer/ Teacher (Ballet dancer)

Vocation : Politics : Activist/ social

Vocation : Politics : Activist/ feminist

Notable : Famous : First in Field ("Pioneer of female superheroes")