Alison Doody

Alison Doody is an Irish model and actress. She was born on 11th November 1966. Doody made her acting debut in a Bond movie, A View to a Kill in 1985. In 1989, she played the archaeologist who was sympathetic to Nazis Elsa Schneider in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Siobhan in A Prayer for the Dying, Charlotte in Taffin and Rebecca Flannery Major League II. Doody was first introduced to modeling when she was invited by a professional photographer. The result was an impressive professional career as a model for commercials. Doody was extremely cautious about doing glamour or nude work. The same rule continued into Doody's acting work. If she came to the director's attention for an upcoming James Bond film, Doody accepted a minor role for a small part in A View to a Kill (1985). Doody was named one of the top twelve promising young actors in the year 1986 in John Willis Screen World. 38. Doody had just turned age 18 at the time she was cast in the character of Bond girl. She remains the youngest Bond girl. A Prayer for the Dying (1997), starring Mickey Rourke, also featured a smaller role as IRA Siobhan. Doody was a silent actor in a 1987 adaptation of The Secret Garden, playing Archibald Craven's dream wife Lilias. Doody was Sapsorrow in the episode of Jim Henson's fantasy show The Storyteller, opposite John Hurt Dawn French Jennifer Saunders. The actress starred alongside Pierce Brosnan as Dr. Elsa Schneider, an Austrian Nazi sympathiser and a forensic archaeologist in the 1989 film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Doody was in the film with Sean Connery in the film and played the role of her father in the film. Doody costarred with Jonathan Pryce, in the British mini-series Selling Hitler. The series was an inspiration for the Hitler Diaries publishing scam. When she moved to Hollywood Doody was a star. The choice was made to replace Cybill Shepherd as spokesperson for L'Oreal She went on to appear alongside Charlie Sheen in 1994's Major League II in the role of Flannery his agent and girlfriend. Doody who was absent from the stage for nearly 10 years, returned in 2003 to play a small role of the British comedy The Actors in which Michael Caine was her character as a character at the ceremony for awards. Doody's roles include an appearance in a TV film version of King Solomon's Mines in 2004, a booklet about the Holocaust, and an animated short called Benjamin's Struggle in 2005. Doody played a small role in Danny Dyer's film The Rapture (2010). Later, she guest-starred on RTE's medical thriller The Clinic. She was also set to play the lead role in a remake in 2011 of the horror classic The Asphyx. However, this project fell through. Pam Jefferson was her character in the E4 comedy Beaver Falls for two seasons. She starred in We Still Kill the Old Way in 2014, a documentary. In November of 2018, she was honored by the Almeria Tierra de Cine award and she received the honor of a star on the Almeria Walk of Fame.