Alison Doody

Alison Doody (born 11 November 1966) is a famous Irish model and actress. After her first small role as an archaeologist in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in 1989, her role as Elsa Schneider - a Nazi-sympathizing character in A View to a Kill (Bond film, 1985) She went on to portray the Nazi-sympathizing Elsa Schneider. Siobhan in A Prayer for the Dying, Charlotte in Taffin and Rebecca Flannery Major League II. Doody began modelling after being invited by an experienced photographer. It led to a successful modeling career in the commercial world. Doody was extremely cautious about doing the glamorous work or doing nude. The same rule continued into the acting profession. Once she caught the attention of the director of casting in a James Bond movie, she took a part of A View to a Kill as Jenny Flex. Doody was named as one of the 12 most promising new Actors of 1986 in John Willis Screen World, Volume. 38. Doody aged 18 in the role of Doody in Bond she was still the youngest Bond gal until today. A Prayer for the Dying featuring Mickey Rourke in 1987, was another early film where Doody portrayed IRA Siobhan. Doody was seen as Archibald Craven in his dreams in the 1987 version from The Secret Garden. She also played Lilias. The storyteller's episode Sapsorrow was her first lead part. The episode aired in 1988 with John Hurt, Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders. She played opposite Pierce Brosnan in the film Taffin (1988) before she took perhaps her most well-known role ever as Austrian Nazi-sympathiser as well as archaeologist Dr. Elsa Schneider in 1989's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in which she starred alongside Harrison Ford. Doody has been in three films with James Bond actors. Doody co-starred in 1991 with Jonathan Pryce opposite the British miniseries Selling Hitler, which was an inspiration for the book fraud known as the Hitler Diaries. Then she moved to Hollywood. She starred as Flannery in Major League II, opposite Charlie Sheen. Doody's first appearance on the screen was in 2003, when Michael Caine played Doody in an uncredited role. The roles she played include an appearance in a TV movie version of King Solomon's Mines in 2004, a booklet about the Holocaust, and the short film Benjamin's Struggle in 2005. Doody appeared in Danny Dyer 2010's The Rapture. In 2011, she was scheduled to take on the role of lead in The Asphyx remake, but the project was cancelled. Pam Jefferson was her character in the E4 comedy Beaver Falls for two seasons. She starred in We Still Kill the Old Way, a 2014 film. She received the Almeria Tierra de Cinema award on the 21st of November, 2018.