Alison Doody

Alison Doody was born in Dublin, Ireland on November 11, 1966. Model and an Irish actor. After making her debut in a feature film with a small part in Bond film A View to a Kill (1985) she went on to portray the an archaeologist who is sympathetic to Nazis, Elsa Schneider, in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). Siobhan Doovan portrayed Charlotte as Taffin in 1988. Rebecca Flannery starred in Major League II in 1994. Doody became a model after the opportunity was offered by a hopeful photographer. Her career has since evolved into commercial modelling. Doody was averse to glamour and nude work. This was a principle that was carried into her acting. When she came to the director's notice for a James Bond film, Doody took on a part in A View to a Kill (1985). Doody made an appearance as a character in John Willis Screen World Volume 2 as one of 12 promising new actors for 1986. 38. At just 18 when she appeared in the role Doody was - and remains one of the smallest Bond girl that has ever appeared. A Prayer for the Dying, starring Mickey Rourke in 1987, was a different early film in which Doody played IRA Siobhan. Doody was seen as Archibald Craven in his dreams in the 1987 TV adaptation from The Secret Garden. She played Lilias. She performed the role of Sapsorrow in the Jim Henson's fable show The Storyteller, opposite John Hurt Dawn French Jennifer Saunders. The actress acted alongside Pierce Brosnan in the film Taffin (1988) before taking possibly her most famous role ever in the role of Austrian Nazi-sympathiser as well as archaeologist The Dr. Elsa Schneider in 1989's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade playing opposite Harrison Ford. In the film, she also appeared alongside Sean Connery as Indy's father Doody has acted alongside three actors who have portrayed James Bond. In 1991 Doody was co-starring with Jonathan Pryce in British mini-series Selling Hitler inspired by the publishing fraud known as the Hitler Diaries. Doody later moved to Hollywood. The actress later became Flannery Charlie Sheen's agent, as well as her girlfriend on the set of Major League II. She was chosen to be an alternative to Cybill Shepherd, who had been L'Oreal's spokesperson. Doody returned to acting in 2003, playing a small role on The Actors, a British comedy film The Actors, in which Michael Caine played herself at the awards ceremony. Doody was a co-star, along alongside Patrick Swayze, in the 2004 TV film version of King Solomon's Mines. In 2010, Doody was a character in Danny Dyer's film The Rapture (2010). Later, she appeared as a guest in the medical drama of RTE The Clinic and was set to be the lead actress in a remake of horror classic The Asphyx but the project was later put on hold. The year 2011 saw her debut on the first season of two on E4 comedy show Beaver Falls playing Pam Jefferson. The show also featured her in We Still Kill the Old Way (2014). The film was awarded the Almeria tierra de cinema award on 21 November 2018.