Alison Doody

Alison Doody was born in Dublin in the Republic of Ireland, on the 11th of November 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 perform the role of Nazisympathizing Elsa Schneider. Other roles include Siobhan Donavan as Charlotte in A Prayer for the Dying (1987) Charlotte in Taffin (1988) as well as Rebecca Flannery in Major League II (1994). Doody became a model after her being approached by an aspiring photographer. Her career has since evolved into commercial modelling. Doody avoided nude and glamour work. This was a principle that she incorporated into her acting. She was cast in a minor role as Jenny Flex for 1985's A View to a Kill after her name was picked by the director of casting. Doody was named one of the top twelve promising young actors in the year 1986 by John Willis Screen World. 38. At just 18 as she played the role Doody was, and still is one of the smallest Bond girl that has ever appeared. A Prayer for the Dying (1997) with Mickey Rourke, also featured an unimportant role in the form of IRA Siobhan. Doody was a silent actress in a 1987 adaptation from The Secret Garden, playing Archibald Craven's dream wife Lilias. In a Jim Henson fantasy episode The Storyteller in 1988, Doody portrayed Sapsorrow with John Hurt Dawn French Jennifer Saunders. She starred alongside Pierce Brosnan, in the 1988 film Taffin. In the following film, she played her greatest role as Austrian Archaeologist and Nazisympathiser Doctor. Elsa Schneider playing alongside Harrison Ford. The film also starred Sean Connery as Indy's father Doody was a part of three actors in the role of James Bond. In 1991 Doody was co-starring with Jonathan Pryce in British mini-series Selling Hitler inspired by the publishing fraud known as the Hitler Diaries. Following her move to Hollywood Doody made her a star. The role she played was Flannery in Major League II, opposite Charlie Sheen. Doody was a part of The 2003 British comedy The Actors. Michael Caine played her in a ceremony for an award. She starred along together with Patrick Swayze, in the 2004 TV film version of King Solomon's Mines. Doody had a minor role in Danny Dyer's movie The Rapture (2010). Later, she appeared as a guest in RTE's medical drama The Clinic and was set to appear in a remake of horror classic The Asphyx but the project was later put on hold. She began her first two seasons of Beaver Falls, the E4 comedy Beaver Falls in 2011 as Pam Jefferson. She was a part of We Still Kill the Old Way, a 2014 film. Almeria film award, tierra de cine as well as an Almeria Walk of Fame star was presented on the 21st November 2018.