Alison Doody

Alison Doody (born 11 November 1966) is a famous Irish model and actress. After making her film debut by playing a minor role in the Bond film A View to a Kill (1985) she was later cast to play Nazi-sympathising archaeologist Elsa Schneider, in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). Siobhan Doovan portrayed Charlotte as Taffin in 1988 and Rebecca Flannery starred in Major League II in 1994. Doody was a model when the opportunity was offered by a hopeful photographer. The career she pursued has transformed into commercial modeling. Doody was extremely strict about not doing the glamorous work or doing nude. The same rule continued into the acting profession. When she came to the director's attention for an upcoming James Bond film, Doody was offered a small role on the film A View to a Kill (1985). Doody was listed as one of the top 12 promising young Actors from 1986 in John Willis Screen World, Vol. 38. Still only 18 at the time she acted in the film, Doody was - and remains one of the smallest Bond girl that has ever appeared. A Prayer for the Dying, starring Mickey Rourke in 1987, was another early film where Doody played IRA Siobhan. Doody was a silent actor in a 1987 film adaptation from The Secret Garden, playing Archibald Craven's dream bride Lilias. The first time she played the lead in an episode from 1988 of the Jim Henson fantasy series The Storyteller in the role of Sapsorrow opposite John Hurt Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders. In 1988, she played alongside Pierce Brosnan on the movie Taffin. The most memorable role to date was as Austrian Nazi sympathiser as well as archaeologist Dr. Elsa Schneider opposite Harrison Ford in 1989's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. It also featured Sean Connery as Indy's father Doody was a part of three actors in the role of James Bond. Doody played co-starring in 1991 with Jonathan Pryce opposite the British mini-series Selling Hitler, which was an inspiration for the book fraud called The Hitler Diaries. In Hollywood her next move was to. The role she played was Flannery in Major League II, opposite Charlie Sheen. After a long absence from screen Doody returned to acting by playing a minor role in the 2003's British comedy film The Actors with Michael Caine as her character in the event scene for the award ceremony. Doody's roles include the TV film version of King Solomon's Mines in 2004 and a book about the Holocaust and an animated short called Benjamin's Struggle in 2005. Doody appeared in Danny Dyer 2010's The Rapture. In the following year, she was a guest on RTE's medical thriller The Clinic. She was scheduled to also appear in an adaptation in 2011 of the horror classic The Asphyx. However, this project fell through. Pam Jefferson, the character she played on E4's comedy Beaver Falls during its first season that ran for two years. In 2014 she starred in We Still Kill the Old Way. She received the Almeria tierra de cinema award on 21 November 2018.