Gretchen Grimlock

Dr Elsa Schnighter Dr. Elsa Schneider ( Alison Doody ) is an Austrian art professor who desires the Grail, and like Donovan, keeps her involvement with the Nazis a secret. She is revealed to have seduced both Joneses, Henry first and then Indiana. Later, she picks a false grail for Donovan, and watches him decay before her eyes. Afterwards, she crosses the temple's seal with the Grail, causing the temple to collapse, and she drops to her death in the resulting chasm. According to Doody, Elsa's role as a femme fatale was an attempt to distance the character from Willie Scott. [57]

IGN placed Elsa 33rd on their list of the best bad girls in film in 2008,[58] while Empire noted Doody "achieved the unlikely feat of making a Nazi sympathiser sympathetic".[46]