Alison Doody

Alison Doody, born 11 November 1966 in Ireland, is an actress and model. Her feature film debut was a tiny part in her debut role in the Bond film A View to a Kill. (1985). In the following film she played the Nazi-sympathising archaeologist Elsa Schneider (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 1989). There were also roles for Siobhan Dovan as Charlotte in A Prayer for the Dying (1987) Charlotte in Taffin (1988) and Rebecca Flannery in Major League II (1994). Doody was first introduced to modeling when she was approached by a professional photographer. The result was an impressive professional career as a model for commercials. Doody strictly avoided glamour, nudity and thongs during her modeling career. Having come to the attention of the director who cast an upcoming James Bond film she accepted an unimportant role as Jenny Flex in 1985's A View to a Kill. Doody appears within John Willis Screen World's Vol. 3 as one of the 12 top actors of 1986. 38. Doody was still only 18 years old when she made her first appearance in the Bond role. To date Doody is considered to be the youngest Bond girl. A Prayer for the Dying which starred Mickey Rourke in 1987, was a film from the beginning where Doody portrayed IRA Siobhan. Doody had a non-speaking role in the 1987 television film adaptation The Secret Garden appearing as Archibald Craven's wife Lilias in a dream. The Storyteller's episode Sapsorrow was her first lead role. It took place in 1988 opposite John Hurt, Dawn France and Jennifer Saunders. She played opposite Pierce Brosnan in the film Taffin (1988) prior to taking possibly her most famous role in her career as Austrian Nazi-sympathiser as well as archaeologist the Dr. Elsa Schneider in 1989's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade playing opposite Harrison Ford. Doody is a part of the James Bond family, having been in the film with Sean Connery and Jonathan Pryce in the film Indiana Jones and the Final Crusade. In the year 1991, Doody co-starred opposite Jonathan Pryce in British mini-series Selling Hitler inspired by the publication fraud, also known as the Hitler Diaries. In Hollywood Doody moved to. Chosen to replace Cybill Shepherd as the spokeswoman of L'Oreal she was later chosen to perform alongside Charlie Sheen in 1994's Major League II as Flannery his girlfriend and agent. Doody made her acting comeback in 2003 with a minor role as a character in the British comedy film The Actors, in which Michael Caine played herself at an awards ceremony. Doody was a co-star, along alongside Patrick Swayze, in the 2004 TV film adaptation of King Solomon's Mines. Doody appeared in Danny Dyer 2010's The Rapture. She later guest starred in the medical drama of RTE The Clinic and was set to star in a 2011 remake of the horror film The Asphyx but the project ended up being cancelled. In 2011 she began the first of two seasons on the E4 comedy drama Beaver Falls playing Pam Jefferson. The show also featured her in We Still Kill the Old Way (2014). In November of 2018, she won the Almeria tierra de Cine Award and was awarded a Star on the Almeria Walk of Fame.