Alison Doody

Alison Doody was born in Dublin in the Republic of Ireland, on the 11th of November in 1966. She is a model as well as an Irish actress. She made her feature film debut as an actress and Bond actress on the set of A View to a Kill, (1985). Then she was as a character in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in 1989. She played Nazi sympathizing archaeologist Elsa Schneider. Other roles include Siobhan Donavan on the film A Prayer for the Dying (1987) Charlotte in Taffin (1988) as well as Rebecca Flannery in Major League II (1994). Doody became a model after her being approached by a aspiring photographer. Her career has since evolved into commercial modelling. Doody was adamantly against glamour and nude work a clause which was extended to her acting career. After catching the eye of the director of casting for the upcoming James Bond movie, she was cast of A View to a Kill in the role of Jenny Flex. Doody was named one of the top twelve promising young actors in 1986 in John Willis Screen World. 38. Doody had just turned age 18 when she was given the character as a Bond girl. She is still the youngest Bond girl. A Prayer for the Dying featuring Mickey Rourke in 1987, was a film from the beginning where Doody played IRA Siobhan. Doody had an unspoken role as the wife of Archibald Craven Lilias when she appeared in his dream, 1987's adaptation from The Secret Garden. She performed the role of Sapsorrow in the Jim Henson's fantasy series The Storyteller, opposite John Hurt Dawn French Jennifer Saunders. She played opposite Pierce Brosnan in the film Taffin (1988) before she took possibly her most famous role in her career as Austrian Nazi-sympathiser as well as archaeologist Dr. Elsa Schneider in 1989's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade playing opposite Harrison Ford. Doody appeared alongside Sean Connery in the film in the role of Indy's father. Doody has co-starred alongside Jonathan Pryce, in the British mini-series Selling Hitler. The series was in part inspired by The Hitler Diaries publishing scam. When she moved to Hollywood Doody made her famous. She went on as Flannery her agent as well as her girlfriend on the set of Major League II. She was chosen to be an alternative to Cybill Shepherd who was once L'Oreal's spokeswoman. Doody who was off acting for more than 10 years, came back 2003 to play a small part on her role in the British comedy The Actors in which Michael Caine was her character in a scene during an awards ceremony. in 2004, Doody appeared with Patrick Swayze alongside a TV version to King Solomon's Mines. Also, she appeared as a character in Benjamin's Struggle (2005), which was a pamphlet that described the Holocaust. Doody was cast in Danny Dyer's The Rapture (2009). She later guest starred in RTE's medical drama 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 of The E4 comedy Beaver Falls in 2011 as Pam Jefferson. The show featured her in We Still Kill the Old Way, a 2014 film. She received the Almeria Tierra de Cinema award on November 21, 2018.