Alison Doody

Alison Doody, born 11 November 1966 in Ireland, is a model and actor. After making her film debut with a tiny part in Bond film A View to a Kill (1985) she was later cast to portray the Nazi-sympathising archaeologist Elsa Schneider, in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). Siobhan Doovan portrayed Charlotte as Taffin in 1988 and Rebecca Flannery starred in Major League II in 1994. Doody started modeling after being approached by an experienced photographer. The result was an impressive career as a commercial model. Doody was averse to glamour and nude work, a rule that she incorporated into her acting. After being spotted by to the director of casting for the upcoming James Bond film she accepted an unimportant role as Jenny Flex in 1985's A View to a Kill. Doody's name was included as a part of John Willis Screen World Vol. 12 of the most promising actors of 1986. 38. Doody was only 18 when she made her first appearance in the Bond role. To date, she is the youngest Bond girl. In 1987, Mickey Rourke starred in A Prayer for the Dying where she played IRA member Siobhan Doovan. Doody played Archibald Craven in his dreams in the 1987 adaptation from The Secret Garden. She played Lilias. The storyteller's episode Sapsorrow was her debut leading role. It aired in 1988 opposite Dawn French, John Hurt as well as Jennifer Saunders. She worked with Pierce Brosnan as Dr. Elsa Schneider, an Austrian Nazi sympathiser and a archaeologist for forensics in the film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Doody has been in three films with James Bond actors. In 1991 Doody was co-starring with Jonathan Pryce in British mini-series Selling Hitler inspired by the publication fraud, also known as the Hitler Diaries. In Hollywood Doody moved to. The decision was made to replace Cybill Shepard in the role of 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 screen Doody returned to acting with a small role in 2003's British comedy film The Actors with Michael Caine as her character in the awards ceremony scene. In 2004, Doody appeared alongside Patrick Swayze alongside a TV adaptation to King Solomon's Mines. Also, she appeared on Benjamin's Struggle (2005), an essay on the Holocaust. Doody was cast in Danny Dyer's The Rapture (2009). She guested in RTE's Medical drama The Clinic. The project was later shelved. Pam Jefferson was her character in the E4 comedy Beaver Falls for two seasons. The following year, she starred as Pam Jefferson on We Still Kill the Old Way. In November 2018 she was awarded the Almeria tierra de Cine Award and was awarded a Star on the Walk of Fame in Almeria.