Alison Doody

Alison Doody (born 11 November 1966) is an Irish actress and model. After her first small role as an archaeologist in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in 1989, her role as Elsa Schneider - a Nazi-sympathizing character from A View to a Kill (Bond film 1985) She went on to perform the role of Nazisympathizing 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 asked by a photographer to model and started to take on the role of model. Doody then began to build a career of commercial modelling. Doody was averse to glamour and nude work, a rule she carried over to her acting. Having come to the attention of the casting director of a new James Bond film she accepted a small part as Jenny Flex in 1985's A View to a Kill. Doody appears within John Willis Screen World's Vol. 3 as being one of the 12 promising actors from 1986. 38. Only 18 years old as she played the film, Doody was - and remains the youngest Bond girl that has ever appeared. Another early movie had her in a minor role in the role of IRA member Siobhan Donovan on A Prayer for the Dying (1987) that was a film starring Mickey Rourke. Doody was seen as Archibald Craven in his dreams in the 1987 TV adaptation from The Secret Garden. She was Lilias. In a Jim Henson fantasy episode The Storyteller in 1988, Doody portrayed Sapsorrow with John Hurt Dawn French Jennifer Saunders. The first time she appeared was in the 1988 movie Taffin with Pierce Brosnan. Next, she portrayed Dr. Elsa Schneider as an Austrian archaeologist, Nazi-sympathizer, and antagonist to Harrison Ford. In the film, she also appeared alongside Sean Connery as Indy's father Doody was a part of three actors that have played James Bond. Doody played co-starring in 1991 with Jonathan Pryce opposite the British miniseries Selling Hitler, which was an inspiration for the book fraud called the Hitler Diaries. She then moved to Hollywood. She was chosen to succeed Cybill Shepherd as the spokeswoman of L'Oreal She went on to appear alongside Charlie Sheen in 1994's Major League II as Flannery his girlfriend and agent. Doody was part of The 2003 British comedy The Actors. Michael Caine played her in a ceremony to receive an award. Doody acted alongside Patrick Swayze in a 2004 TV movie adaptation of King Solomon's Mines and also was a part of a short titled Benjamin's Struggle (2005) a pamphlet on the Holocaust as well as in the British TV program Waking the Dead (in a two-part series known as. Doody was part of Danny Dyer's The Rapture (2009). The Clinic, a medical drama on RTE. The Asphyx was her 2011 remake. The actress began her two seasons of the E4 comedy Beaver Falls in 2011 as Pam Jefferson. In 2014 she starred in We Still Kill the Old Way. In November 2018, she won the Almeria Tierra de Cinema Award as well as a star on the Walk of Fame in Almeria.