Alison Doody

Alison Doody has been an Irish model and actor since November 11, 1996. After her first small role as an archaeologist in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in 1989's Elsa Schneider - a Nazi-sympathizing character from A View to a Kill (Bond film, 1985) and then went on to perform the role of Nazisympathizing Elsa Schneider. The other roles she played include Siobhan Donavan in A Prayer for the Dying (1987) Charlotte in Taffin (1988) and Rebecca Flannery in Major League II (1994). Photographer approached Doody Doody decided to take up modeling that eventually led to an industry-related career in modelling. Doody stringently avoided glamour and sexually explicit work. This was a policy allowed her to pursue an acting profession. In 1985, after receiving notice from the directors who were casting a James Bond new film, Doody took a small part of Jenny Flex as in A View to a Kill. Doody was named one of the top 12 promising young Actors of 1986 in John Willis Screen World, Volume. 38. Doody, who was only 18 at the time she portrayed Doody in the film A Prayer to the Dying (1987), starring Mickey Rourke, is the youngest Bond girl to be seen. A Prayer for the Dying which starred Mickey Rourke in 1987, was a film from the beginning where Doody played IRA Siobhan. Doody had a non-speaking role in the 1987 television version of The Secret Garden appearing as Archibald Craven's wife Lilias in a dream. The storyteller's episode Sapsorrow was her first leading part. It aired in 1988 with John Hurt, Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders. The actress acted alongside Pierce Brosnan in the film Taffin (1988) before taking perhaps her most well-known role to date as Austrian Nazi-sympathiser and archaeologist The Dr. Elsa Schneider in 1989's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade as a co-star with Harrison Ford. Doody played alongside Sean Connery in the film and played the role of her father in the film. Doody appeared in the 1991 British series Selling Hitler with Jonathan Pryce. The film was based on the Hitler Diaries publication scam. Doody later moved to Hollywood. She took over Cybill Shepherd as the L'Oreal spokesperson part. Then she played Flannery Sheen's wife and agent opposite Charlie Sheen, as Major League II came out in 1994. After a long absence from the screen Doody was back in the acting world by playing a minor role in the 2003's British comedy movie The Actors with Michael Caine acting as herself in an awards ceremony scene. The year 2004, she appeared in a scene with Patrick Swayze alongside a TV version of King Solomon's Mines. Also Doody appeared as a character in Benjamin's Struggle (2005), an essay on the Holocaust. In 2010, Doody shot a part of Danny Dyer's movie The Rapture (2010). She later guest starred in RTE's medical drama The Clinic and was set to appear in a remake of the horror film The Asphyx but the project ended up being cancelled. The year 2011 saw her debut on the second season on E4 comedy drama Beaver Falls playing Pam Jefferson. She starred in We Still Kill the Old Way, a 2014 film. The Almeria the tierra de film prize was presented to her on November 21, 2018. In addition, she was awarded one of the stars at the Almeria Walk of Fame.