Alison Doody

Alison Doody was born in Dublin, Ireland on November 11, in 1966. The model is and an Irish actor. Her debut came in a Bond film, A View to a Kill in 1985. She starred in 1989 as the archaeologist who was sympathetic to Nazis Elsa Schneider in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Siobhan in A Prayer for the Dying, Charlotte in Taffin and Rebecca Flannery Major League II. Doody became a model after she was approached by a aspiring photographer. The career she pursued has evolved into commercial modelling. Doody stringently avoided glamour and nude work a clause which was extended to her acting career. If she came to the director's notice for a James Bond film, Doody took on a part in A View to a Kill (1985). Doody appeared in John Willis Screen World Volume 2 as one of 12 promising actors to be cast in 1986. 38. Doody was just 18 at the time of her first appearance in the Bond character. Today, she is the youngest Bond girl. A Prayer for the Dying featuring Mickey Rourke in 1987, was a film from the beginning where Doody played IRA Siobhan. Doody played Archibald Craven's wife Lilias as he portrayed his fantasy in the 1987 adaptation of The Secret Garden. The Storyteller episode from 1988 was her first appearance in the main part in Sapsorrow, alongside John Hurt Dawn French Jennifer Saunders. She starred alongside Pierce Brosnan in the film Taffin (1988) prior to taking probably her most high-profile part in her career in the role of Austrian Nazi-sympathiser as well as archaeologist Dr. Elsa Schneider in 1989's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade playing opposite Harrison Ford. Doody acted in the film with Sean Connery, who played Indiana Jones' father. Doody costarred with Jonathan Pryce, in the British miniseries Selling Hitler. The series was in part inspired by The Hitler Diaries publishing scam. Then she moved to Hollywood. The decision was made to replace Cybill Shepard in the role of L'Oreal spokeswoman. She continued to play opposite Charlie Sheen as Flannery, his agent and girlfriend on the film Major League II. Doody's first appearance on the screen was in 2003, when Michael Caine played Doody in a short role. In 2004, Doody starred alongside Patrick Swayze alongside a TV adaptation of King Solomon's Mines. Also Doody appeared on Benjamin's Struggle (2005), an essay on the Holocaust. Doody played a small role in Danny Dyer's movie The Rapture (2010). Later, she appeared as a guest in the medical drama of RTE The Clinic and was set to star in a 2011 remake of the horror film The Asphyx but the project later stalled. In 2011, she started the first season of two in the E4 comedy show Beaver Falls playing Pam Jefferson. In 2014 she appeared in We Still Kill the Old Way. In November of 2018, she was awarded by the Almeria Tierra de Cine award and was awarded the honor of a star on the Almeria Walk of Fame.