Alison Doody

Alison Doody was born in Dublin in the Republic of Ireland, on the 11th of November in 1966. Model as well as an Irish actress. Alison Doody made her film debut as a Bond girl in A View to a Kill, (1985). Then she appeared in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in 1989. She played Nazi sympathetic archaeologist Elsa Schneider. Siobhan in A Prayer for the Dying, Charlotte in Taffin and Rebecca Flannery Major League II. Doody began modelling after being invited by an experienced photographer. The result was an enviable modeling career in the commercial world. Doody was very determined not to do glamour or nude work. This rule extended into the acting profession. When she was dragged into the sights of the casting director of the upcoming James Bond film she accepted an unimportant role as Jenny Flex in 1985's A View to a Kill. Doody's name was featured within John Willis Screen World Vol. 12 of the most promising new actors of 1986. 38. Doody was just turning age 18 when she took on the character as a Bond girl. She remains the youngest Bondgirl to date. A Prayer for the Dying starring Mickey Rourke also had a performance by Doody, playing IRA Siobhan. Doody played an unseen role as the wife of Archibald Craven Lilias during the film adaptation of his fantasy, 1987's version to The Secret Garden. In a Jim Henson fantasy episode The Storyteller in 1988, she played Sapsorrow alongside John Hurt Dawn French Jennifer Saunders. The actress played Pierce Brosnan, in the 1988 film Taffin. Then she took her biggest role yet as Austrian archaeologist and Nazisympathiser Dr. Elsa Schneider playing alongside Harrison Ford. Doody is part of the James Bond family, having played alongside Sean Connery and Jonathan Pryce in 1989's Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade. In the year 1991, Doody was co-starring with Jonathan Pryce in British mini-series Selling Hitler inspired by the publication fraud, also known as the Hitler Diaries. The actress later relocated to Hollywood. The choice was made to replace Cybill Shepherd as spokesperson for L'Oreal she went on to play opposite Charlie Sheen in 1994's Major League II in the role of Flannery his agent and girlfriend. Doody, who had been absent from the stage for nearly 10 years, came back in 2003 for a minor role on The Actors, a British comedy The Actors in which Michael Caine appeared as her in a scene during an awards ceremony. Doody acted alongside Patrick Swayze in a 2004 television movie adaptation from King Solomon's Mines and also appeared in a short film called Benjamin's Struggle (2005) a pamphlet about the Holocaust and in the British TV show Waking the Dead (in a two-part series known as. Doody was part of Danny Dyer's The Rapture (2009). 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. She began her first two seasons on the E4 comedy Beaver Falls in 2011 as Pam Jefferson. In 2014, she appeared on We Still Kill the Old Way (2014). She received the Almeria Tierra de Cinema award on 21 November 2018.