Alison Doody

Alison Doody, born 11 November 1966 in Ireland, is a model and actress. After making her debut in a feature film with a small part in Bond film A View to a Kill (1985) she was later cast to portray the Nazi-sympathising archaeologist Elsa Schneider, in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). Siobhan donavan was featured in A Prayer for the Dying in 1987, Charlotte appeared in Taffin (in 1998) as well as Rebecca Flannery played Major League II. Doody was a model when she was approached by a aspiring photographer. Her career has since transformed into commercial modeling. Doody was adamantly against glamour and nude work a clause which allowed her to pursue an acting profession. In the event that she was brought to director's notice for a James Bond film, Doody was offered a small role for a small part in A View to a Kill (1985). Doody appeared in John Willis Screen World Volume 2 as one of 12 promising young actors for the year 1986. 38. At just 18 at the time she acted in the role Doody was - and remains one of the smallest Bond girl that has ever appeared. A Prayer for the Dying which starred Mickey Rourke also had a role for Doody in the character of IRA Siobhan. Doody played a non-speaking part in the 1987 television adaptation of The Secret Garden appearing as Archibald Craven's wife Lilias in the movie of his dreams. Doody was Sapsorrow in the Jim Henson's fantasy series The Storyteller, opposite John Hurt Dawn French Jennifer Saunders. She played opposite Pierce Brosnan in the film Taffin (1988) prior to taking possibly her most famous role in her career as Austrian Nazi-sympathiser as well as archaeologist the Dr. Elsa Schneider in 1989's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade playing opposite Harrison Ford. Doody was in the film in the film with Sean Connery, who played Indy's father. Doody played the role in the British mini-series Selling Hitler with Jonathan Pryce. It was based on the Hitler Diaries publication scam. In Hollywood, she moved to. It was her choice to succeed Cybill Shepard as L'Oreal spokeswoman and was later cast alongside Charlie Sheen as Flannery, his agent and girlfriend as Flannery's girlfriend and agent in Major League II. Doody returned to acting in 2003 with a minor part on the British comedy film The Actors, in which Michael Caine played herself at the awards ceremony. In 2004, she appeared in a film with Patrick Swayze as a television adaptation of King Solomon's Mines. She was also in Benjamin's Struggle, a 2005 publication about the Holocaust. Doody was also cast in Danny Dyer's The Rapture (2009). The Clinic, a medical drama, aired on RTE. The Asphyx was the 2011 version of her film. In 2011, she started the second season on the E4 comedy show Beaver Falls playing Pam Jefferson. The show featured her in We Still Kill the Old Way in 2014, a documentary. On 21 November 2018 she was awarded by the Almeria tierra de cine award and was awarded an award in the Almeria Walk of Fame.