Alison Doody

Alison Doody (born 11 November 1966) is an Irish actress and model. Following her small debut performance as an archaeologist Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, 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. Siobhan Doovan portrayed Charlotte in Taffin in 1988 and Rebecca Flannery starred in Major League II in 1994. Doody started modelling after she was approached. It turned out to be a profitable career. Doody was adamantly against the glamour of thongs, nakedness and nudity when she was modeling. When she was spotted by the director of casting in a James Bond movie, she participated of A View to a Kill in the role of Jenny Flex. Doody was named as one of the top 12 promising young Actors of 1986 by John Willis Screen World, Vol. 38. At just 18 when she appeared in the character Doody was, and still is - the youngest Bond girl that has ever appeared. A Prayer for the Dying featuring Mickey Rourke in 1987, was another early film where Doody played IRA Siobhan. Doody appeared as Archibald Craven in his dreams in the 1987 TV adaptation of The Secret Garden. She played Lilias. Her first lead role was in a 1988 episode of Jim Henson fantasy series The Storyteller in the role of Sapsorrow opposite John Hurt Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders. She starred alongside Pierce Brosnan in the film Taffin (1988) before she took possibly her most famous role in her career 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 has collaborated with three James Bond actors. Doody was a part of Jonathan Pryce as Hitler Diaries the British mini-series inspired by Hitler Diaries. She subsequently relocated to Hollywood. The choice was made to replace Cybill Shepherd as spokeswoman for L'Oreal she went on to appear alongside Charlie Sheen in 1994's Major League II in the role of Flannery his girlfriend and agent. Doody was absent from the stage for nearly 10 years, came back in 2003 to play a small role in the British comedy The Actors in which Michael Caine played her as a character at the ceremony for awards. Doody was a co-star with Patrick Swayze in a 2004 TV movie adaptation to King Solomon's Mines and also appeared in a short film called Benjamin's Struggle (2005) a pamphlet about the Holocaust as well as in the British TV program Waking the Dead (in a two-part show named. in 2010 Doody shot a part of Danny Dyer's movie The Rapture (2010). The following year, she had been scheduled to play the lead role in The Asphyx remake, but the project was cancelled. Her first two seasons of the E4 comedy Beaver Falls in 2011 as Pam Jefferson. The following year, she starred as Pam Jefferson on We Still Kill the Old Way. In November 2018 she was awarded the Almeria award for best film as well as a star on the Walk of Fame in Almeria.