Alison Doody

Alison Doody, born 11 November 1966 in Ireland is a model and actress. She made her feature film debut with a small part in Bond film A View to a Kill (1985) she was later cast to appear as a an archaeologist who is sympathetic to Nazis, Elsa Schneider, in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). Siobhan donavan was part of A Prayer for the Dying in 1987, Charlotte appeared in Taffin (in the year 1988) and Rebecca Flannery played Major League II. Doody began modeling after she was approached. It turned out to be a profitable career. Doody was adamantly against glamour, nudity and thongs when she was modeling. In 1985, after getting noticed by the directors who were casting the James Bond new film, Doody was cast in a minor part in Jenny Flex as in A View to a Kill. Doody was on John Willis Screen World Volume 2, as one 12 promising young actors for the year 1986. 38. Still only 18 when she appeared in the role Doody was and is the youngest Bond girl who has appeared in a film. A Prayer for the Dying featuring Mickey Rourke in 1987, was another early film where Doody played IRA Siobhan. Doody was an actress in silent films in a 1987 film adaptation to The Secret Garden, playing Archibald Craven's dream wife Lilias. The storyteller's episode Sapsorrow was her first lead role. The episode aired in 1988 opposite John Hurt, Dawn France and Jennifer Saunders. In 1988, she appeared as Pierce Brosnan on the movie Taffin. Her most notable role to date was as Austrian Nazi sympathizer and archaeologist Doctor Elsa Schneider opposite Harrison Ford in the 1989 film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Doody was in the film with Sean Connery in the film in the role of Indy's father. Doody was a co-star in the year 1991 alongside Jonathan Pryce opposite the British miniseries Selling Hitler, which was in the spirit of a publication scam called The Hitler Diaries. Doody later moved to Hollywood. She played Flannery as Flannery in Major League II, opposite Charlie Sheen. Doody came back to acting in 2003 with a minor part on her role in the British comedy film The Actors, in which Michael Caine played herself at an awards show. Doody's roles include a TV movie version of King Solomon's Mines in 2004 and a book about the Holocaust and a short film called Benjamin's Struggle in 2005. Doody was a part-time actress in Danny Dyer's movie The Rapture (2010). The following year, she had been scheduled to play the lead role on The Asphyx remake, but the project was cancelled. Pam Jefferson was her character in the E4 comedy Beaver Falls for two seasons. She also was on the show as Pam Jefferson in We Still Kill the Old Way. In November 2018 she was awarded the Almeria Tierra de Cinema Award and was awarded a Star on the Walk of Fame in Almeria.