Alison Doody

Alison Doody was born in Dublin in the Republic of Ireland, on the 11th of November in 1966. Model as well an Irish actress. Alison Doody first made a feature film debut as the Bond actress with the film A View to a Kill, (1985). Then she was as a character 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 was a model when she was approached. The result was that it turned out to be an extremely lucrative profession. Doody was determined to steer clear of glamour and nude roles, that was a rule she applied in her acting. She accepted a small part as Jenny Flex for 1985's A View to a Kill after her name was picked by the director who cast her. Doody was selected as one of the twelve most promising actors of the year in 1986 in John Willis Screen World. 38. Doody was still only aged 18 at the time of her appearance in the Bond role. Today, she is the youngest Bond girl. Another early movie played a tiny part in the film in a small role as IRA member Siobhan Donovan on A Prayer for the Dying (1987) which featured Mickey Rourke. Doody played Archibald Craven in his dreams in the 1987 TV adaptation of The Secret Garden. She 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. She acted alongside Pierce Brosnan as Dr. Elsa Schneider, an Austrian Nazi sympathizer as well as a archaeologist from the forensic field in the 1989 film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Doody was in the film alongside Sean Connery, who played Indy's father. Doody starred alongside Jonathan Pryce as Hitler Diaries, a British mini-series that was inspired by Hitler Diaries. Later, she relocated to Hollywood. She starred as Flannery on the screen in Major League II, opposite Charlie Sheen. Doody was absent from the stage for nearly 10 years, returned in 2003 for a minor role of the British comedy The Actors in which Michael Caine played her in a scene during an award ceremony. In 2004, she starred in a film with Patrick Swayze as a television adaptation of King Solomon's Mines. She played a role on Benjamin's Struggle, a 2005 pamphlet on the Holocaust. Doody was part of Danny Dyer's The Rapture (2009). She guested in RTE's the medical thriller The Clinic. The project was later shelved. Pam Jefferson, the character she played in E4's comedy Beaver Falls during its first season of two seasons. In 2014, she was on the show as Pam Jefferson on We Still Kill the Old Way. The 21st of November, 2018, she was awarded by the Almeria tierra de cine award and she received the honor of a star on the Almeria Walk of Fame.