Alison Doody

Alison Doody (born 11 November 1966) is an Irish actress and model. Her debut film 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 onto play the Nazisympathizing Elsa Schneider. Siobhan Donnevan's role in A Prayer for the Dying (1997), Charlotte Taffin (1988), and Rebecca Flannery Major League II (1994) are other roles. Approached by a photographer Doody took up modelling that eventually led to a career in commercial modelling. Doody was extremely cautious about doing the glamorous work or doing nude. The same rule continued into the acting profession. She accepted a small role in the film Jenny Flex for 1985's A View to a Kill after she was spotted by the casting director. Doody's name was included as a part of John Willis Screen World Vol. 12 which features the most promising actors from 1986. 38. Doody was only 18 years old at the time of her debut in the Bond character. As of today she's the newest Bond girl. in 1987 Mickey Rourke starred in A Prayer for the Dying in which she played IRA members Siobhan Doovan. Doody had a non-speaking role in the 1987 television adaptation of The Secret Garden appearing as Archibald Craven's wife Lilias in a dream. The Storyteller episode from 1988 featured her in the lead part in the film Sapsorrow, alongside John Hurt Dawn French Jennifer Saunders. She also played with Pierce Brosnan on the movie Taffin. Her most notable role to date was as Austrian Nazi sympathiser and archaeologist Doctor Elsa Schneider opposite Harrison Ford in 1989's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. In the film, she also appeared alongside Sean Connery as Indy's father Doody was a part of three actors who have portrayed James Bond. Doody has co-starred alongside Jonathan Pryce, in the British mini-series Selling Hitler. The series was inspired by The Hitler Diaries publishing scam. When she moved to Hollywood Doody was famous. She played Flannery on the screen in Major League II, opposite Charlie Sheen. Doody, who had been absent from the stage for nearly 10 years, came back 2003 to play a small part on her role in the British comedy The Actors in which Michael Caine appeared as her as a character at an award ceremony. In 2004, she starred alongside Patrick Swayze as a television adaptation of King Solomon's Mines. She also appeared in Benjamin's Struggle, a 2005 booklet on the Holocaust. Doody had a minor role in Danny Dyer's movie The Rapture (2010). In 2011, she was scheduled to take on the role of lead for The Asphyx remake, but this project did not go ahead. Pam Jefferson was her character in the E4 comedy Beaver Falls for two seasons. In 2014, she was a part of We Still Kill the Old Way. In November of 2018, she was honored by the Almeria tierra de cine award as well as an award in the Almeria Walk of Fame.