Alison Doody

Alison Doody, born 11 November 1966 in Ireland, is an actress and model. Her feature film debut was a tiny role in The James Bond film A View to a Kill. (1985). In the following film she was portrayed as a Nazi-sympathising Archaeologist Elsa Schneider (Indiana Jones and in the Last Crusade 1989). Siobhan Donevan as A Prayer for the Dying (1997), Charlotte Taffin (1988), and Rebecca Flannery Major League II (1994) were other characters. Doody was a model when the opportunity was offered by a aspiring photographer. The career she pursued has developed into commercial modeling. Doody did not like glamour or nude work, a rule that was carried into her acting. Doody was offered a tiny role in the film Jenny Flex for 1985's A View to a Kill after she was spotted by the director of casting. Doody's name appeared within John Willis Screen World Vol. 12 of the most promising young actors from 1986. 38. Doody was just 18 years old at the time of her appearance in the Bond role. To date she's the newest Bond girl. Another film from her early days was a small part in a small role as IRA member Siobhan Donovan on A Prayer for the Dying (1987) that was a film starring Mickey Rourke. Doody played Archibald Craven's wife Lilias In his dream in 1987's television adaptation The Secret Garden. She was Sapsorrow in the episode of Jim Henson's fable show The Storyteller, opposite John Hurt Dawn French Jennifer Saunders. The year 1988 was the first time she appeared as Pierce Brosnan on the movie Taffin. The most memorable part to date was that of Austrian Nazi sympathiser and archaeologist Doctor Elsa Schneider opposite Harrison Ford in 1989's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. The film also starred Sean Connery as Indy's father Doody was a part of three actors that have played James Bond. Doody was in the British miniseries Selling Hitler with Jonathan Pryce. The film was based on the Hitler Diaries publication scam. Then she moved to Hollywood. She was chosen to replace Cybill Shepard in the role of L'Oreal spokeswoman. She was later cast alongside Charlie Sheen as Flannery, his agent and girlfriend in Major League II. Doody was a part of The 2002 British comedy The Actors. Michael Caine was her character in a celebration for an award. She was in the film with Patrick Swayze, in the 2004 TV film version of King Solomon's Mines. In 2010, Doody played a role of Danny Dyer's movie The Rapture (2010). Doody was later a guest on RTE's medical drama The Clinic and was set to star in a 2011 remake of the classic horror film The Asphyx but the project was later put on hold. She began her first two seasons on The E4 comedy Beaver Falls in 2011 as Pam Jefferson. In 2014, she was on the show as Pam Jefferson on We Still Kill the Old Way. In November of 2018, she won the Almeria award for best film as well as a star on Almeria's Walk of Fame.