Alison Doody

Alison Doody was born in Dublin, Ireland on November 11, 1966. She is a model as well an Irish actor. Following her debut in a feature film by playing a minor role in the Bond film A View to a Kill (1985) she was later cast to appear as a an archaeologist who is sympathetic to Nazis, Elsa Schneider, in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). Siobhan Donnevan in A Prayer for the Dying (1997), Charlotte Taffin (1988) and Rebecca Flannery Major League II (1994) also play roles. Doody began her modeling career after she was approached by a aspiring photographer. She has since evolved into commercial modelling. Doody was extremely strict about not doing glamorous or sexually explicit work. This rule extended into Doody's acting work. When she was dragged into the sights to the director of casting for an upcoming James Bond film she accepted an unimportant role as Jenny Flex in 1985's A View to a Kill. Doody's name appeared in John Willis Screen World Vol. 12 which features the most promising new actors of 1986. 38. Doody is only 18 when she played Doody in the movie A Prayer to the Dying (1987) which starred Mickey Rourke. She is the tiniest Bond girl who has a name to her. A Prayer for the Dying with Mickey Rourke also had a part for Doody as IRA Siobhan. Doody played an unseen role as Archibald Craven's spouse Lilias when she appeared in his dream, 1987's adaptation from The Secret Garden. She performed the role of Sapsorrow in the episode of Jim Henson's fantasy series The Storyteller, opposite John Hurt Dawn French Jennifer Saunders. In 1988, she starred alongside Pierce Brosnan on the movie Taffin. Her most notable performance to date was her role as Austrian Nazi sympathiser as well as archaeologist Dr. Elsa Schneider opposite Harrison Ford in the 1989 film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Doody acted with Sean Connery, who played the character's father. Doody has co-starred alongside Jonathan Pryce, in the British mini-series Selling Hitler. The series was in part inspired by The Hitler Diaries publishing scam. The actress later relocated to Hollywood. The choice was made to replace Cybill Shepherd as spokesperson for L'Oreal she was later chosen to play opposite Charlie Sheen in 1994's Major League II in the role of Flannery his agent and girlfriend. Doody returned to acting in 2003 when she played a minuscule part in her role in the British comedy film The Actors, in which Michael Caine played herself at the awards ceremony. The roles she played included the TV movie adaptation of King Solomon's Mines in 2004, a booklet about the Holocaust, and an animated short called Benjamin's Struggle in 2005. Doody was part of Danny Dyer's The Rapture (2009). The Clinic, a medical drama, aired on RTE. The Asphyx was her 2011 remake. 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). In November 2018 she was awarded the Almeria tierra de Cine Award and was awarded a Star on the Almeria Walk of Fame.