Alison Doody

Alison Doody, born 11 November 1966 in Ireland is an actress and model. Her debut came in the Bond movie, A View to a Kill in 1985. In 1989 she played Nazi-sympathizing archaeologist Elsa Schneider in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. The other roles she played include Siobhan Donavan on the film A Prayer for the Dying (1987) Charlotte in Taffin (1988) and Rebecca Flannery in Major League II (1994). Doody was a model when the opportunity was offered by a hopeful photographer. Her career has since evolved into commercial modelling. Doody tried to stay clear of glamorous and sexy roles, this was the principle she applied in her acting. She accepted a small role in the film Jenny Flex for 1985's A View to a Kill following the fact that she was noticed by the director who cast her. Doody made an appearance in John Willis Screen World Volume 2 as one of 12 promising actors to be cast in 1986. 38. Doody, at 18-years-old in the role of Doody in Bond She was still the youngest Bond girl until today. A different early film had her in a minor role in the role of IRA Siobhan Doovan, a member of the IRA in A Prayer for the Dying (1987) which starred Mickey Rourke. Doody appeared as Archibald Craven in his dreams in the 1987 adaptation from The Secret Garden. She played Lilias. The Storyteller episode from 1988 was her first appearance in the main character in the film Sapsorrow as well as John Hurt Dawn French Jennifer Saunders. She first appeared in the 1988 movie Taffin alongside Pierce Brosnan. Next, she portrayed the role of Dr. Elsa Schneider as an Austrian archaeologist, Nazi-sympathizer, and antagonist to Harrison Ford. Doody has been in three films with James Bond actors. Doody played co-starring in 1991 with Jonathan Pryce opposite the British miniseries Selling Hitler, which was inspired by the publication fraud named The Hitler Diaries. She then moved to Hollywood. She was chosen to replace Cybill Shepard as L'Oreal spokeswoman. She went on to star opposite Charlie Sheen as Flannery, his agent and girlfriend in Major League II. After nearly a decade from the screen Doody was back in the acting world and acted in a tiny role in 2003 British comedy movie The Actors with Michael Caine acting as herself in an event scene for the award ceremony. Doody acted alongside Patrick Swayze in a 2004 television movie adaptation to King Solomon's Mines and also appeared in a short film called Benjamin's Struggle (2005) a pamphlet about the Holocaust and in the British TV series Waking the Dead (in a two-part series named. Doody was also cast in Danny Dyer's The Rapture (2009). Doody was a guest on RTE's Medical drama The Clinic. The project was later canceled. Pam Jefferson was her character in the E4 comedy Beaver Falls for two seasons. The show featured her in We Still Kill the Old Way in 2014, a documentary. In November of 2018 she was awarded the Almeria tierra de Cine Award as well as a star on the Walk of Fame in Almeria.