Yvonne Craig

Yvonne Joyce Craig ( born May 16, 1937 in Taylorville, Illinois, USA) is an American actress who has starred in more than 80 films and television series episodes. Before she became an actress in 1957, she studied ballet and was a 1954-1957 for renowned Ballets Russes.

Childhood and youth

Yvonne Craig only spent the first years of life in Illinois, because already in 1940 her parents moved to Columbus, Ohio. The next move took the family around 1950 to Dallas, Texas, where Yvonne studied ballet at the prestigious Edith James School. For a Christmas present for the gala as guest of honor Russian prima ballerina Alexandra Danilova became aware of Yvonne's talent and gave it to the Ballets Russes, which she joined in 1954 as its youngest member. After a disagreement with their former patron Craig left the ensemble in 1957 and moved to Los Angeles to study at the Eugene Loring School dance. The film producer Edmond Chevie, Craig already wanted to win during their engagements with the Ballets Russes for a film production (at that time but still had failed because Yvonne much prefer ballet dancing wanted to shoot as movies), she spoke again at this time and had success. Because Yvonne Craig thought it was a good opportunity to temporarily engage with acting until she could find her an engagement with the ballet.

Film and Television

In 1957 she turned to the until 1959 getting on in cinemas Western country without law ( The Young Land) her first film at the side of Patrick Wayne, son of John Wayne. Although they also repeatedly participated in movies - such as in the two Elvis Presley movies Whether blonde or brown ( It happened at the world 's fair, 1963), where she held a supporting role, and The Wild Wives of Tennessee ( Kissin ' Cousins ​​, 1964), where she played the female lead - she was seen but frequently in television series; such as 1960-1964 four times in the series 77 Sunset Strip, three times in emergency California ( 1973 and 1974 ) and twice in Mannix (1969 and 1973). They also had several one-off guest appearances on such series as My Favorite Martian or Big Valley (both 1965), It Takes a Thief (1968), Star Trek (1969 ), Kojak (1973) and Starsky & Hutch (1979 ). Her biggest success but they ended up with the TV movie Batgirl and her eponymous role in the adjoining third season of the television series Batman with a total of 26 episodes.

Marriage and Partnership

By 1960, learned Yvonne Craig know the drama singer Jimmy Boyd and married him soon, but the marriage lasted only two years. Your next life companion was the comedian Mort Sahl, with whom she was more than three years. As she turned the Batman series, she was romantically involved with actor Bill Bixby. In 1988 she married the real estate king Kenneth Aldrich, with whom she lived together 17 years.

The later years

After the end of her acting career, she got into the real estate business and later had a private brokerage firm in Southern California. She was also involved in a phone card company and was temporarily acting lessons. In addition, she undertook with her husband traveled extensively, especially to Africa. In September 2000, she published her autobiography entitled From Ballet to The Batcave and Beyond.