Alison Doody

Alison Doody was born in Dublin in the Republic of Ireland, on the 11th of November 1966. The model is as well an Irish actress. Alison Doody made her film debut as the Bond model with the film A View to a Kill, (1985). Then she was in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in 1989. Doody played Nazi sympathetic archaeologist Elsa Schneider. Siobhan Donnevan's role in A Prayer for the Dying (1997), Charlotte Taffin (1988), and Rebecca Flannery Major League II (1994) were other characters. Doody began modelling after being offered by a professional photographer. This led to a successful career as a commercial model. Doody strove to avoid glamorous and sexy roles, this was the principle she followed in her acting. After catching the eye of the director of casting in a James Bond movie, she took a part of A View to a Kill in the role of Jenny Flex. Doody was listed as a part of John Willis Screen World's Vol. 3. She is listed as one of the 12 most promising actors of 1986. 38. At just 18 at the time she acted in the role Doody was and is the youngest Bond girl who has appeared in a film. Another film from her early days had her in a minor role as IRA member Siobhan Donovan on A Prayer for the Dying (1987) which featured Mickey Rourke. Doody was Archibald Craven's wife Lilias as he portrayed his fantasy in the 1987 adaptation of The Secret Garden. In a Jim Henson fantasy episode The Storyteller in 1988, she played Sapsorrow alongside John Hurt Dawn French Jennifer Saunders. She worked with Pierce Brosnan as Dr. Elsa Schneider, an Austrian Nazi sympathiser and a forensic archaeologist in the 1989 movie Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Doody has collaborated with three James Bond actors. In 1991 Doody co-starred opposite Jonathan Pryce in British mini-series Selling Hitler inspired by the publishing fraud known as the Hitler Diaries. She subsequently relocated to Hollywood. She went on as Flannery her agent and her girlfriend in Major League II. She was selected as an alternative to Cybill Shepherd, who was L'Oreal's first spokeswoman. Doody played a role in the 2003 British comedy The Actors. Michael Caine portrayed her at a ceremony for an award. She played alongside Patrick Swayze in a 2004 television movie adaptation of King Solomon's Mines and also was a part of a short titled Benjamin's Struggle (2005) a pamphlet on the Holocaust and in the British TV program Waking the Dead (in a two-part episode called. Doody filming a character in Danny Dyer's film The Rapture. Doody was later a guest on the medical drama of RTE The Clinic and was set to appear in a remake of the horror film The Asphyx but the project ended up being cancelled. Her first two seasons on the E4 comedy Beaver Falls in 2011 as Pam Jefferson. In 2014, she was a part of We Still Kill the Old Way. She was given the Almeria tierra de cinema award on the 21st of November, 2018.