Alison Doody

Alison Doody was born in Dublin, Ireland on November 11, 1966. She is a model as well an Irish actress. Doody made her acting debut in the Bond film, A View to a Kill in 1985. She starred in 1989 as the archaeologist who was sympathetic to Nazis Elsa Schneider in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Siobhan Donnevan in A Prayer for the Dying (1997), Charlotte Taffin (1988) and Rebecca Flannery Major League II (1994) also play roles. Doody was a model when she was approached by an aspiring photographer. She has since evolved into commercial modelling. Doody stringently avoided glamour and sexually explicit work. This was a policy was extended to her acting profession. After receiving notice from the directors who were casting an upcoming James Bond new film, Doody took a small part in Jenny Flex as in A View to a Kill. Doody's name appeared within John Willis Screen World Vol. 12 which features the most promising new actors from 1986. 38. Doody is only 18 when she played the part of Doody in the film A Prayer for the Dying (1987) with Mickey Rourke, is the tiniest Bond girl to be seen. A Prayer for the Dying (1997) which starred Mickey Rourke, also featured one of her roles as IRA Siobhan. Doody was a silent actress in a 1987 film adaptation from The Secret Garden, playing Archibald Craven's dream wife Lilias. The Storyteller episode from 1988 featured her in the lead role in Sapsorrow, alongside John Hurt Dawn French Jennifer Saunders. She worked with Pierce Brosnan as Dr. Elsa Schneider, an Austrian Nazi sympathizer as well as a forensic archaeologist in the 1989 movie Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. The film also starred Sean Connery as Indy's father Doody has acted alongside three actors that have played James Bond. Doody was co-starring with Jonathan Pryce, in the British mini-series Selling Hitler. The series was an inspiration for the Hitler Diaries publishing scam. She later moved to Hollywood. She replaced Cybill Shepherd as the L'Oreal spokesperson's character. She then played Flannery Sheen's wife and agent, opposite Charlie Sheen, as Major League II became available in 1994. After nearly a decade from screen Doody was back in the acting world and acted in a tiny role in 2003 British comedy movie The Actors with Michael Caine as her character in the event scene for the award ceremony. Doody's roles included an appearance in a TV movie adaptation of King Solomon's Mines in 2004 as well as a booklet on the Holocaust, and the short film Benjamin's Struggle in 2005. Doody filming a character in Danny Dyer's film The Rapture. The Clinic, a medical drama that aired on RTE. The Asphyx was the remake she made in 2011. Pam Jefferson is her role in the E4 Comedy Drama Beaver Falls' first of two seasons. The show featured her in We Still Kill the Old Way, a 2014 film. She was given the Almeria Tierra de Cinema award on November 21, 2018.