Batgirl actress Yvonne Craig dies at 78
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NEW YORK — Yvonne Craig, who played the sexy, crime-fighting Batgirl in the 1960s TV hit Batman, has died. She was 78.
Craig died Monday at her Los Angeles home from complications from breast cancer, her family said.
She began her career as a ballet dancer, the youngest member of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, with which she toured for three years.
Then she was discovered by Hollywood, appearing in a 1958 episode of Perry Mason and in the 1959 feature The Young Land.
But she was best known as Batgirl (and her alter ego, librarian Barbara Gordon, Commissioner Gordon’s daughter) in the 1967-68 season of ABC’s Batman. Another memorable TV role, from an episode of the original Star Trek: the green Orion Slave Girl who wanted to kill Capt. Kirk.
— The Associated Press