Yvonne Craig

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Yvonne Joyce Craig (born May 16, 1937 in Taylorville, Illinois) is an American actress best known as Batgirl from the 1960s TV series Batman. <p>Yvonne Craig was originally trained to be a ballet dancer, and was a member of the corps de ballet of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo in the 1950s.[1]<p>Gradually she moved into acting, and her athletic physique (shown prominently in her stint as the Purple-suited Batgirl ), soon garnered her several film roles. In 1959, she appeared in no less than three films: The Young Land, The Gene Krupa Story, and Gidget. In 1960, she appeared as a busty young co-ed with Bing Crosby in High Time, where she met and married singer/actor Jimmy Boyd. After their divorce in 1962 Yvonne starred in several films including roles with Elvis Presley and Dennis Hopper, and appeared in the sequel to Our Man Flint, In Like Flint as a Russian Ballet dancer opposite James Coburn. <p> In the mid-1960s, with film roles beginning to taper off, she moved into television, notably...