Alison Doody

Alison Doody is an Irish actor and model. Born on 11th November, 1966. She made her movie debut as an actress and Bond model on the set of A View to a Kill, (1985). Then she appeared in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in 1989. Doody portrayed Nazi sympathizing archaeologist Elsa Schneider. Siobhan donnevan starred part of A Prayer for the Dying in 1987. Charlotte was in Taffin (in 1988) and Rebecca Flannery played Major League II. Doody began modelling after being invited by a professional photographer. The result was an impressive modeling career in the commercial world. Doody strove to avoid glamorous and sexy roles, this was the principle she applied in her acting. She was cast in a minor role as Jenny Flex for 1985's A View to a Kill when her name was picked by the director of casting. Doody was listed as a part of John Willis Screen World's Vol. 3 as being one of the 12 most promising actors from 1986. 38. Doody, at 18-years-old when she played Doody's role in Bond she was still the oldest Bond girl until today. A different early film had her in a minor role in a small role as IRA member Siobhan Donovan in A Prayer for the Dying (1987) which featured Mickey Rourke. Doody played an unseen role in the film as Archibald Craven's wife Lilias as she appeared in his film of a dream, the 1987 adaptation of The Secret Garden. In the Jim Henson fantasy episode The Storyteller in 1988, Doody played Sapsorrow along with John Hurt Dawn French Jennifer Saunders. The actress acted alongside Pierce Brosnan in the film Taffin (1988) before taking possibly her most famous role to date as Austrian Nazi-sympathiser and archaeologist the Dr. Elsa Schneider in 1989's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in which she starred alongside Harrison Ford. Doody was in the film with Sean Connery in the film in the role of Indy's father. In the year 1991, Doody played alongside Jonathan Pryce in British mini-series Selling Hitler inspired by the published fraud known as The Hitler Diaries. Doody then relocated to Hollywood. Chosen to replace Cybill Shepherd as spokesperson for L'Oreal she went on to play opposite Charlie Sheen in 1994's Major League II in the role of Flannery his girlfriend and agent. Doody who was off acting for more than 10 years, came back 2003 to take on a tiny role of the British comedy The Actors in which Michael Caine was her character in a scene during an award ceremony. Doody acted alongside Patrick Swayze in a 2004 film adaptation for television to King Solomon's Mines and also was a part of a short titled Benjamin's Struggle (2005) a pamphlet that discussed the Holocaust and also in the British TV program Waking the Dead (in a two-part series known as. Doody was a part-time actress in Danny Dyer's film The Rapture (2010). She later guest starred in the medical drama of RTE The Clinic and was set to be the lead actress in a remake of the classic horror film The Asphyx but the project later stalled. In 2011, she started the first of two seasons on E4 comedy drama Beaver Falls playing Pam Jefferson. She was a part of We Still Kill the Old Way which was a film from 2014. The Almeria tierra de film award was given to her on the 21st of November the 21st of November, 2018. The actress also was given a star at the Almeria Walk of Fame.