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My Take
For me Yvonne Craig will always be Batgirl, and that role still feels ahead of its time, a woman with her own agenda roaring in on a motorcycle in the 1960s. Knowing she trained as a dancer suddenly explains the easy grace of her movement on screen. What I find quietly impressive is her range, from that pop-culture icon to the green-skinned Orion woman in Star Trek, proving she was never a one-note performer. There is something romantic about a girl from small-town Taylorville becoming a genre legend. She passed in 2015, but on film she keeps riding, and I respect that enduring legacy.
Overview
Yvonne Joyce Craig (May 16, 1937 – August 17, 2015) 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).
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Yvonne Craig
- Name (Japanese)
- イヴォンヌ・クレイグ
- Reading
- いゔぉんぬ・くれいぐ
- Born
- May 16, 1937 – August 17, 2015
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Taurus / Ox
- Origin
- Taylorville, Illinois, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- actor / television actor / film actor / dancer
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- W. H. Adamson High School
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.