RIP Yvonne Craig
"Batgirl" Yvonne Craig has died at age 78.
Yvonne Craig, the actress best known as Batgirl on the hit 1960s television series “Batman,” died on Monday at her home in Pacific Palisades, Calif. She was 78.
Her death was announced on her official website.
Ms. Craig’s family said in a statement that she had breast cancer, which eventually metastasized to her liver, for more than two years, but that she had kept her condition private.
“She wanted to spend all of her energy concentrating on winning her battle,” the statement said. “She was adamant about this and wanted to tell her story when she was cured and feeling better.”
Ms. Craig’s Batgirl added a scrappy girl-power element to “Batman,” the campy series based on the long-running comic book, which starred Adam West as the costumed crime-fighter and Burt Ward as Robin, his young sidekick. The show’s only other prominent female character was the slithery, sexy villain Catwoman, played first by Julie Newmar and then by Eartha Kitt. Ms. Craig joined the show in September 1967, at the beginning of its third and last season.
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