Alison Doody

Alison Doody was born in Dublin in Ireland on November 11, 1966. She is a model as well an Irish actress. Following her debut in a feature film by playing a minor role in the Bond film A View to a Kill (1985) she went on to play Nazi-sympathising archaeologist Elsa Schneider, in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). Siobhan Doovan played Charlotte as Taffin in 1988 and Rebecca Flannery starred in Major League II in 1994. A photographer approached Doody. Doody took up modelling that eventually led to the profession of commercial modeling. Doody stringently avoided glamour and nude work a clause which was extended to her acting career. She was cast in a minor part as Jenny Flex for 1985's A View to a Kill after she was noticed by the director of casting. Doody made an appearance as a character in John Willis Screen World Volume 2. She was one of twelve promising actors to be cast in 1986. 38. Doody aged 18 as she played the character of Doody in Bond she was still the youngest Bond girl to date. A Prayer for the Dying which starred Mickey Rourke also had a performance by Doody, playing IRA Siobhan. Doody played a non-speaking part in the 1987 TV version of The Secret Garden appearing as Archibald Craven's wife Lilias in his dream. The episode of the Storyteller Sapsorrow was her first leading role. It aired in 1988 alongside Dawn French, John Hurt and Jennifer Saunders. She also appeared with Pierce Brosnan on the movie Taffin. Her most recognizable part to date was that of Austrian Nazi sympathizer as well as archaeologist Dr. Elsa Schneider opposite Harrison Ford in the 1989 film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Doody appeared alongside Sean Connery in the film and played the role of her father in the film. Doody appeared in the 1991 British miniseries Selling Hitler with Jonathan Pryce. The show was inspired by The Hitler Diaries publication scam. In Hollywood, she moved to. She played Flannery as Flannery in Major League II, opposite Charlie Sheen. After nearly a decade from the stage Doody returned to acting by playing a minor role in the 2003 British comedy film The Actors with Michael Caine acting as herself in an event scene for the award ceremony. In 2004, she appeared with Patrick Swayze as a television adaptation of King Solomon's Mines. She was also as a character in Benjamin's Struggle, a 2005 booklet on the Holocaust. Doody filmed a role in Danny Dyer's 2010 film The Rapture. The Clinic, a medical drama that aired on RTE. The Asphyx was the remake she made in 2011. She began her first two seasons of the E4 comedy Beaver Falls in 2011 as Pam Jefferson. In 2014, she was on the show as Pam Jefferson on We Still Kill the Old Way. On 21 November 2018 she received the Almeria tierra de cine award and she received an award in the Almeria Walk of Fame.