Alison Doody

Alison Doody (born 11 November 1966) is a famous Irish model and actress. Her feature film debut was a tiny role in the Bond film A View to a Kill. (1985). In the following film, she portrayed Nazi-sympathising Archaeologist Elsa Schneider (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 1989). The other roles she played include Siobhan Donavan 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. The career she pursued has evolved into commercial modelling. Doody stringently avoided glamour and naked work, a rule that was extended to her acting career. When she was dragged into the sights of the casting director of the upcoming James Bond film she accepted an unimportant role as Jenny Flex in 1985's A View to a Kill. Doody is listed within John Willis Screen World's Vol. 3. She is listed as one of the 12 most promising actors of 1986. 38. Doody was just turning age 18 when she was given the character as a Bond girl. She is still the youngest Bond girl to date. A Prayer for the Dying with Mickey Rourke also had a performance by Doody, playing IRA Siobhan. Doody was seen as Archibald Craven in his dreams in the 1987 television adaptation of The Secret Garden. She also played Lilias. The first time she played the lead in a 1988 episode of Jim Henson fantasy series The Storyteller in the role of Sapsorrow with John Hurt Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders. The year 1988 was the first time she appeared with Pierce Brosnan on the movie Taffin. Her most recognizable part to date was that of Austrian Nazi sympathizer as well as archaeologist Dr. Elsa Schneider opposite Harrison Ford in 1989's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Doody appeared alongside Sean Connery in the film, as Indy's dad. Doody was co-starring with Jonathan Pryce, in the British miniseries Selling Hitler. The series was inspired by 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 girlfriend and his agent opposite Charlie Sheen, as Major League II was released in 1994. Doody returned to acting in 2003 with a minor role in the British comedy The Actors, in which Michael Caine played herself at an awards show. In 2004, she starred in a film with Patrick Swayze as a television adaptation of King Solomon's Mines. She played a role in Benjamin's Struggle, a 2005 pamphlet on the Holocaust. Doody was also cast in Danny Dyer's The Rapture (2009). 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. Pam Jefferson, the character she played on E4's comedy Beaver Falls during its first season of two years. She also was on the show as Pam Jefferson on We Still Kill the Old Way. In November of 2018, she was awarded by the Almeria the tierra de cine prize and she received the honor of a star on the Almeria Walk of Fame.