Alison Doody

Alison Doody was born in Dublin in Ireland on November 11, 1966. Model as well an Irish actress. Following her film debut with a tiny part in Bond film A View to a Kill (1985) she went on to portray the anti-Nazi archaeologist Elsa Schneider, in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). Siobhan Donnevan in A Prayer for the Dying (1997), Charlotte Taffin (1988) and Rebecca Flannery Major League II (1994) were other characters. Doody became a model after she was approached by an aspiring photographer. She has since evolved into commercial modelling. Doody stringently avoided glamour and naked work, a rule that she extended to her acting profession. She accepted a small role as Jenny Flex for 1985's A View to a Kill when she was spotted by the director who cast her. Doody was named as one of 12 Promising New Actors from 1986 in John Willis Screen World, Volume. 38. Doody was just turning age 18 when she took on the role as a Bond girl. Doody is the youngest Bond girl. A Prayer for the Dying with Mickey Rourke also had a part for Doody as IRA Siobhan. Doody had a non-speaking role in the 1987 TV adaptation of The Secret Garden appearing as Archibald Craven's wife Lilias in the movie of his dreams. Doody's first leading role came in the 1988 episode of Jim Henson fantasy series The Storyteller in the role of Sapsorrow alongside John Hurt Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders. She acted 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. It also featured Sean Connery as Indy's father Doody has acted alongside three actors that have played James Bond. Doody has co-starred alongside Jonathan Pryce, in the British mini-series Selling Hitler. The series was inspired by the Hitler Diaries publishing scam. Then, she moved to Hollywood. She was chosen to replace Cybill Shepard as L'Oreal spokesperson and then continued to play opposite Charlie Sheen as Flannery, his agent and girlfriend on the film Major League II. After a long absence from the stage Doody came back to acting, by playing a minor role in the 2003's British comedy movie The Actors with Michael Caine playing herself in an awards ceremony scene. In 2004, she starred with Patrick Swayze as a television adaptation of King Solomon's Mines. She played a role as a character in Benjamin's Struggle, a 2005 publication about the Holocaust. Doody had a minor role in Danny Dyer's film The Rapture (2010). Later, she guest-starred in the RTE the medical drama 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. Her first two seasons of The E4 comedy Beaver Falls in 2011 as Pam Jefferson. In 2014, she appeared on We Still Kill the Old Way (2014). The 21st of November, 2018, she received the Almeria tierra de cine award as well as a star in Almeria Walk of Fame.