Alison Doody

Alison Doody, born 11 November 1966 in Ireland, is an actress and model. She made her debut in the Bond movie, A View to a Kill in the year 1985. In 1989, she played an archaeologist with Nazi sympathies Elsa Schneider in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Other roles include Siobhan Donavan as Charlotte in A Prayer for the Dying (1987) Charlotte in Taffin (1988) and Rebecca Flannery in Major League II (1994). Approached by a photographer Doody decided to take up modeling and subsequently the profession of commercial modeling. Doody stringently avoided glamour and sexually explicit work. This was a policy was extended to her acting profession. She was cast in a minor role as Jenny Flex for 1985's A View to a Kill after her name was picked by the director of casting. Doody was named one of 12 Promising New Actors from 1986 in John Willis Screen World, Vol. 38. Doody was just aged 18 when she made her first appearance in the Bond role. As of today she's the newest Bond girl. A Prayer for the Dying (1997), starring Mickey Rourke, also featured one of her roles as IRA Siobhan. Doody was Archibald Craven's wife Lilias, in his dream in 1987's television adaptation The Secret Garden. She performed the role of Sapsorrow in the episode of Jim Henson's fantasy series The Storyteller, opposite John Hurt Dawn French Jennifer Saunders. The actress acted alongside Pierce Brosnan in the film Taffin (1988) before she took perhaps her most well-known role ever in the role of Austrian Nazi-sympathiser and archaeologist Dr. Elsa Schneider in 1989's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in which she starred alongside Harrison Ford. Doody played alongside Sean Connery in the film in the role of Indy's father. Doody costarred with Jonathan Pryce, in the British miniseries Selling Hitler. The series was an inspiration for The Hitler Diaries publishing scam. She then moved to Hollywood. The actress later became Flannery the agent of Charlie Sheen as well as her girlfriend in Major League II. She was selected as an alternative to Cybill Shepherd who had been L'Oreal's spokesperson. Doody was a part of The 2002 British comedy The Actors. Michael Caine played her in a ceremony to receive an award. Doody acted alongside Patrick Swayze in a 2004 television movie adaptation from King Solomon's Mines and also was a part of a short titled Benjamin's Struggle (2005) a pamphlet on the Holocaust and also in the British TV show Waking the Dead (in a two-part show named. Doody was also cast in Danny Dyer's The Rapture (2009). She was also to play the lead role on The Asphyx remake, but the project was cancelled. Pam Jefferson, the character she played on E4's comedy Beaver Falls during its first season of two seasons. The show also featured her in We Still Kill the Old Way (2014). Almeria the tierra de cinema award, and an Almeria Walk of Fame star were awarded on the 21st of November, 2018.