Alison Doody

Alison Doody is an Irish actor and model. She was born on 11th November 1966. She made her film debut with a tiny part in Bond film A View to a Kill (1985) she went on to appear as a anti-Nazi archaeologist Elsa Schneider, in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). Siobhan in A Prayer for the Dying, Charlotte in Taffin and Rebecca Flannery Major League II. Doody started modelling after she was approached. The outcome proved to be a profitable career. Doody avoided nude and glamour work. This was a principle that was carried into her acting. Once she caught the attention of the director of casting for an upcoming James Bond movie, she was cast in A View to a Kill in the role of Jenny Flex. Doody made an appearance on John Willis Screen World Volume 2. She was one of twelve promising young actors for the year 1986. 38. Still only 18 as she played the role Doody was - and remains - the youngest Bond girl who has appeared in a film. in 1987 Mickey Rourke starred in A Prayer for the Dying in which she played IRA member Siobhan Doovan. Doody was a silent actress in a 1987 film adaptation from The Secret Garden, playing Archibald Craven's dream wife Lilias. In the Jim Henson fantasy episode The Storyteller in 1988, Doody played Sapsorrow along with John Hurt Dawn French Jennifer Saunders. In 1988, she starred as Pierce Brosnan on the movie Taffin. Her most notable part to date was that of Austrian Nazi sympathiser and archaeologist Doctor Elsa Schneider opposite Harrison Ford in 1989's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Doody has worked with three James Bond actors. Doody was co-starring with Jonathan Pryce, in the British mini-series Selling Hitler. The series was in part inspired by the Hitler Diaries publishing scam. When she moved to Hollywood, Doody became an international star. The choice was made to replace Cybill Shepherd as the spokeswoman of L'Oreal she was later chosen to appear alongside Charlie Sheen in 1994's Major League II as Flannery the agent's girlfriend. Doody was part of the 2003 British comedy The Actors. Michael Caine played her in a ceremony in recognition of an award. She was in the film with Patrick Swayze, in the 2004 TV film version to King Solomon's Mines. In 2010, Doody shot a part of Danny Dyer's movie The Rapture (2010). Doody was later a guest on the medical drama of RTE The Clinic and was set to star in a 2011 remake of horror classic The Asphyx but the project was later put on hold. In 2011 she began the first season of two on E4 comedy drama Beaver Falls playing Pam Jefferson. She also appeared on the show in 2014 as We Still Kill the Old Way. She was given the Almeria tierra de cinema award on 21 November 2018.