Alison Doody

Alison Doody was born in Dublin, Ireland on November 11, in 1966. Model as well as an Irish actress. Her debut film performance as an archaeologist Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in 1989's Elsa Schneider - a Nazi-sympathizing character in A View to a Kill (Bond film, 1985), she went onto play the Nazisympathizing Elsa Schneider. Siobhan Donovan was Charlotte in Taffin in 1988, and Rebecca Flannery starred in Major League II in 1994. Approached by a photographer Doody decided to take up modeling that eventually led to a career in commercial modelling. Doody did not like glamour or nude work. This was a principle that she incorporated into her acting. After receiving notice from the casting directors of a James Bond new film, Doody took a small portion of Jenny Flex as in A View to a Kill. Doody's name was included in John Willis Screen World Vol. 12 which features the most promising new actors in 1986. 38. Doody had just turned age 18 at the time she was cast in the character of Bond girl. She remains the youngest Bondgirl to date. A different early film had her in a minor role in a small role as IRA Siobhan Doovan, a member of the IRA in A Prayer for the Dying (1987) that featured Mickey Rourke. Doody appeared as Archibald Craven in his dreams in the 1987 television version from The Secret Garden. She also played Lilias. In a Jim Henson fantasy episode The Storyteller in 1988, Doody portrayed Sapsorrow with John Hurt Dawn French Jennifer Saunders. Her first appearance was in the film Taffin alongside Pierce Brosnan. Next, she portrayed the role of Dr. Elsa Schneider as an Austrian Nazi-sympathizer and archaeologist opposite Harrison Ford. It also featured Sean Connery as Indy's father Doody has acted alongside three actors that have played James Bond. In the year 1991, Doody co-starred opposite Jonathan Pryce in British mini-series Selling Hitler inspired by the publishing fraud known as the Hitler Diaries. Then, she moved to Hollywood. She was Flannery Charlie Sheen's agent, as well as partner for Major League II. She was selected as the replacement for Cybill Shepherd who had been L'Oreal's spokesperson. After almost a decade away from the screen Doody was back in the acting world by playing a minor role in the 2003 British comedy film The Actors with Michael Caine as her character in the awards ceremony scene. Doody's roles include the TV movie version of King Solomon's Mines in 2004, a booklet about the Holocaust, and the short film Benjamin's Struggle in 2005. Doody was also cast in Danny Dyer's The Rapture (2009). Doody was a guest on RTE's the medical thriller The Clinic. The project was later canceled. Pam Jefferson, the character she played on E4's comedy Beaver Falls during its first season that ran for two years. In 2014, she appeared on We Still Kill the Old Way (2014). On 21 November 2018 she received the Almeria Tierra de Cine award as well as a star in Almeria Walk of Fame.