Alison Doody

Alison Doody was born in Dublin, Ireland on November 11, in 1966. She is a model as well as an Irish actress. Her debut in a feature film was a tiny role on her debut role in the Bond film A View to a Kill. (1985). In the following film, she portrayed Nazi-sympathising Archaeologist Elsa Schneider (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 1989). Siobhan Doovan played Charlotte in Taffin in 1988 and Rebecca Flannery starred in Major League II in 1994. Doody was first introduced to modeling when she was approached by a professional photographer. It led to an enviable modeling career in the commercial world. Doody avoided nude and glamour work. This was a principle that was carried into her acting. After catching the eye of the casting director for an upcoming James Bond movie, she participated in A View to a Kill as Jenny Flex. Doody was named one of the twelve most promising young actors in 1986 in John Willis Screen World. 38. Doody, at 18-years-old in the role of Doody in Bond she was still the youngest Bond gal until today. A Prayer for the Dying (1997) which starred Mickey Rourke, also featured one of her roles as IRA Siobhan. Doody was a voice actor in the 1987 television version of The Secret Garden appearing as Archibald Craven's wife Lilias in a dream. In a Jim Henson fantasy episode The Storyteller in 1988, she played Sapsorrow alongside John Hurt Dawn French Jennifer Saunders. The year 1988 was the first time she played with Pierce Brosnan on the movie Taffin. Her most recognizable part to date was that of Austrian Nazi sympathizer as well as archaeologist Dr. Elsa Schneider opposite Harrison Ford in 1989's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Doody appeared alongside Sean Connery in the film and played the role of her father in the film. Doody has co-starred alongside Jonathan Pryce, in the British miniseries Selling Hitler. The series was in part inspired by the Hitler Diaries publishing scam. She then moved to Hollywood. She was replaced by Cybill Shepherd in the L'Oreal spokesperson's character. She then played Flannery Sheen's wife and agent opposite Charlie Sheen, as Major League II was released in 1994. After almost a decade away from the stage Doody came back to acting, by playing a minor role in the 2003 British comedy movie The Actors with Michael Caine playing herself in an event scene for the award ceremony. Doody was a co-star with Patrick Swayze in a 2004 TV movie adaptation to King Solomon's Mines and also was a part of a short titled Benjamin's Struggle (2005) a pamphlet about the Holocaust as well as in the British TV series Waking the Dead (in a two-part show known as. Doody appeared on Danny Dyer 2010's The Rapture. The following year, she had been scheduled scheduled to take on the role of lead for The Asphyx remake, but this project did not go ahead. Pam Jefferson is her role in the E4 Comedy Drama Beaver Falls' first of two seasons. She was a part of We Still Kill the Old Way, a 2014 film. In November she received the Almeria Tierra de Cinema Award and received a Star on the Walk of Fame in Almeria.