Alison Doody

Alison Doody, born 11 November 1966 in Ireland, is a model and actress. 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. Other roles include Siobhan Donavan on the film A Prayer for the Dying (1987) Charlotte in Taffin (1988) and Rebecca Flannery in Major League II (1994). Doody was a model after being approached by. The outcome proved to be a lucrative career. Doody was extremely determined not to do the glamorous work or doing nude. This rule extended into the acting profession. She accepted a small role as Jenny Flex for 1985's A View to a Kill following the fact that she was noticed by the director who cast her. Doody is listed as a part of John Willis Screen World's Vol. 3 as one of the 12 top actors of 1986. 38. Doody, at 18-years-old in the role of Doody in Bond she was still the most youthful Bond actress to date. A Prayer for the Dying (1997) with Mickey Rourke, also featured one of her roles as IRA Siobhan. Doody had a non-speaking role in the 1987 film adaptation The Secret Garden appearing as Archibald Craven's wife Lilias in the movie of his dreams. The episode of the Storyteller Sapsorrow was her first leading role. It aired in 1988 opposite John Hurt, Dawn France along with Jennifer Saunders. She played opposite Pierce Brosnan in the film Taffin (1988) before taking probably her most high-profile part in her career in the role of Austrian Nazi-sympathiser and archaeologist The Dr. Elsa Schneider in 1989's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade playing opposite Harrison Ford. Doody played alongside Sean Connery in the film, as Indy's dad. Doody co-starred in 1991 with Jonathan Pryce opposite the British mini-series Selling Hitler, which was in the spirit of a publication scam named the Hitler Diaries. In Hollywood her next move was to. The role she played was Flannery as Flannery in Major League II, opposite Charlie Sheen. After a long absence from screen Doody was back in the acting world with a small role in 2003 British comedy movie The Actors with Michael Caine playing herself in an award ceremony scene. Doody was a co-star with Patrick Swayze in a 2004 film adaptation for television to King Solomon's Mines and also appeared in a short film called Benjamin's Struggle (2005) a pamphlet about the Holocaust and also in the British TV series Waking the Dead (in a two-part series known as. Doody was in Danny Dyer 2010's The Rapture. Later, she guest-starred in the RTE Medical thriller The Clinic. She was supposed to play the lead role in an adaptation in 2011 of the horror movie The Asphyx. However, the project was ultimately canceled. She began her first two seasons on the E4 comedy Beaver Falls in 2011 as Pam Jefferson. The show featured her in We Still Kill the Old Way in 2014, a documentary. She received the Almeria tierra de cinema award on November 21, 2018.