Alison Doody

Alison Doody is an Irish actor and model. She was born on 11th November, 1966. Her debut in a feature film was in a minor part on The James Bond film A View to a Kill. (1985). Then, later she played the Nazi-sympathising archaeologist Elsa Schneider (Indiana Jones and in the Last Crusade 1989). Siobhan Donavan played the role part of A Prayer for the Dying in 1987. Charlotte was in Taffin (in 1988) as well as Rebecca Flannery played Major League II. Doody started modelling after she was approached. It turned out to be a lucrative career. Doody tried to stay clear of the glamour of nude roles which was a principle she applied in her acting. In 1985, following getting noticed by the directors of casting for an upcoming James Bond new film, Doody acted in a tiny portion of Jenny Flex as in A View to a Kill. Doody was listed within John Willis Screen World's Vol. 3. She is listed as one of the 12 most promising actors of 1986. 38. Doody had just turned age 18 when she took on the character as a Bond girl. She is still the youngest Bondgirl to date. A Prayer for the Dying which starred Mickey Rourke also had a performance by Doody, playing IRA Siobhan. Doody played an unseen role in the film as Archibald Craven's wife Lilias when she appeared in his film of a dream, the 1987 adaptation of The Secret Garden. She performed the role of Sapsorrow in the Jim Henson's fable show The Storyteller, opposite John Hurt Dawn French Jennifer Saunders. The actress starred alongside Pierce Brosnan as Dr. Elsa Schneider, an Austrian Nazi sympathizer as well as a archaeologist from the forensic field in the 1989 film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Doody has worked with three James Bond actors. In the year 1991, Doody co-starred opposite Jonathan Pryce in British mini-series Selling Hitler inspired by the publishing fraud known as the Hitler Diaries. Later, she relocated to Hollywood. It was her choice to succeed Cybill Shepard in the role of L'Oreal spokeswoman. She went on to star opposite Charlie Sheen as Flannery, his girlfriend and agent on the film Major League II. Doody's return to the screen was in 2003 when Michael Caine played Doody in the role of a brief. In 2004, she appeared in a film with Patrick Swayze as a television adaptation of King Solomon's Mines. She played a role on Benjamin's Struggle, a 2005 publication about the Holocaust. Doody was part of Danny Dyer's The Rapture (2009). Doody was later a guest on 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 actress began her two seasons on Beaver Falls, the E4 comedy Beaver Falls in 2011 as Pam Jefferson. The show featured her in We Still Kill the Old Way, a 2014 film. In November 2018 she received the Almeria award for best film and was awarded a Star on the Walk of Fame in Almeria.