Alison Doody

Alison Doody (born 11 November 1966) is an Irish actress and model. 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), she went onto portray the Nazi-sympathizing Elsa Schneider. Siobhan Doovan played Charlotte on Taffin in 1988. Rebecca Flannery starred in Major League II in 1994. Doody was asked by a photographer to model and started to model. She then developed her career as a commercial model. Doody did not wear fashion, thongs and glamour when she was modeling. In the event that she was brought to director's attention for a James Bond film, Doody was offered a small role for a small part in A View to a Kill (1985). Doody appears within John Willis Screen World's Vol. 3 as being one of the 12 promising actors of 1986. 38. At just 18 at the time she acted in the role Doody was and is one of the smallest Bond girl that has ever appeared. In 1987, Mickey Rourke starred in A Prayer for the Dying where she played IRA Member Siobhan Donovan. Doody was a voice actor in the 1987 version of The Secret Garden appearing as Archibald Craven's wife Lilias in a dream. Doody was Sapsorrow in an episode of Jim Henson's fantasy series The Storyteller, opposite John Hurt Dawn French Jennifer Saunders. In 1988, she played alongside Pierce Brosnan on the movie Taffin. The most memorable part to date was that of Austrian Nazi sympathiser as well as archaeologist Dr. Elsa Schneider opposite Harrison Ford in the 1989 film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Doody appeared alongside Sean Connery in the film and played the role of her father in the film. Doody has co-starred alongside Jonathan Pryce, in the British mini-series Selling Hitler. The series was an inspiration for The Hitler Diaries publishing scam. Doody later moved to Hollywood. The actress later became Flannery Charlie Sheen's agent, as well as partner for Major League II. She had been chosen as the replacement for Cybill Shepherd who was L'Oreal's first spokeswoman. Doody's first appearance on the screen was in 2003 when Michael Caine played Doody in a short role. in 2004, Doody appeared alongside Patrick Swayze alongside a TV version to King Solomon's Mines. Also Doody was in Benjamin's Struggle (2005), which was a pamphlet that described the Holocaust. Doody recorded a part in the film of Danny Dyer, The Rapture. Then, she appeared in the RTE the medical drama The Clinic. She was also set to be the star of an adaptation in 2011 of the classic horror film The Asphyx. However, the project was ultimately canceled. In 2011, she started the first of two seasons on the E4 comedy drama Beaver Falls playing Pam Jefferson. In 2014 she appeared in We Still Kill the Old Way. In November she received the Almeria tierra de Cine Award as well as a star on the Almeria Walk of Fame.