Not soon after, she transitioned into a blossoming acting career, making various appearances in a series of films before landing the big role as the Caped Crusader’s female counterpart. It’s not easy to upstage William Shatner by quoting Shakespeare while wearing green body paint, but she did it. Her other television credits include The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Fantasy Island, The Six Million Dollar Man, Kojak, The Wild Wild West and Star Trek, in which she memorably played an Orion Slave Girl who tried to kill Captain Kirk.
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Batgirl, who was secretly the daughter of Police Commissioner Gordon and whose purple and yellow outfit contrasted with Batman’s starker look, was known for jumping into the fray along with Batman and Robin, delivering a few pows and zaps of her own to villains.
“I hear from women that I was their role model”, she told CNN in an interview earlier this year.
Data released in the hack on Ashley Madison’s servers seem to show that family activist and former TLC reality star Josh Duggar has held not one, but two different monthly subscriptions for the site, which connects individuals in order to have extramarital affairs.
The cancer metastasized to her liver, and she died Monday in her home in Pacific Palisades.
This was quickly followed by many years of film and television including two movies with Elvis Presley (It Happened at the World’s Fair and Kissin Cousins).
You may also not know that five years after the series ended, Craig reappeared as Batgirl in a public service announcement (PSA) to let women know about the Equal Pay Act of 1963, a federal law that sought to eliminate the gender wage-gap. I got to work with people that I would never have the chance to work with. There was a return of sorts to the screen for Craig when she voiced Grandma (2009-11) in the Nickelodeon cartoon series Olivia.
She wrote a memoir, “From Ballet to the Batcave and Beyond“, and was publicly vocal about her support for free mammograms for women who couldn’t afford them.
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Yvonne Craig is survived by her husband, Kenneth Aldrich, her sister Meridel Carson and nephews Christopher and Todd Carson.
