Alison Doody

Alison Doody is an Irish actor and model. She was born on 11th November 1966. Alison Doody made her film debut as a Bond model in A View to a Kill, (1985). Then she appeared in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in 1989. Doody portrayed Nazi sympathetic archaeologist Elsa Schneider. There were also roles for Siobhan Dovan on the film 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 a hopeful photographer. The career she pursued has evolved into commercial modelling. Doody was adamantly against glamour and nude work a clause which allowed her to pursue an acting profession. Once she caught the attention of the director of casting in an upcoming James Bond movie, she took a part of A View to a Kill as Jenny Flex. Doody's name appeared within John Willis Screen World Vol. 12 of the most promising new actors of 1986. 38. Doody had just turned 18 years old at the time she was cast in the character of Bond girl. Doody is the youngest Bond girl to date. A Prayer for the Dying (1997) with Mickey Rourke, also featured an unimportant role in the form of IRA Siobhan. Doody was a voice actor in the 1987 film adaptation The Secret Garden appearing as Archibald Craven's wife Lilias in a dream. She was Sapsorrow in an episode of Jim Henson's fable show The Storyteller, opposite John Hurt Dawn French Jennifer Saunders. She acted alongside Pierce Brosnan as Dr. Elsa Schneider, an Austrian Nazi sympathizer and an archaeologist for forensics in the film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Doody played the role alongside Sean Connery, who played Indy's father. Doody played alongside Jonathan Pryce as Hitler Diaries the British mini-series based on Hitler Diaries. After moving to Hollywood, Doody became an international star. She starred as Flannery in Major League II, opposite Charlie Sheen. Doody returned to acting in 2003 when she played a minuscule performance on her role in the British comedy The Actors, in which Michael Caine played herself at an awards ceremony. Doody's roles include the TV movie adaptation of King Solomon's Mines in 2004 and a book about the Holocaust as well as a short film called Benjamin's Struggle in 2005. Doody filming a character in Danny Dyer's 2010 film The Rapture. The following year, she had been scheduled to play the lead role in The Asphyx remake, but the project was cancelled. She began her first two seasons of the E4 comedy Beaver Falls in 2011 as Pam Jefferson. The show also featured her in We Still Kill the Old Way (2014). The film was awarded the Almeria Tierra de Cinema award on 21 November 2018.