Alison Doody

Alison Doody (born 11 November 1966) is an Irish actress and model. Her debut in a feature film was in a minor role on The James Bond film A View to a Kill. (1985). Later she played the Nazi-sympathising archaeologist Elsa Schneider (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 1989). Siobhan Donevan as A Prayer for the Dying (1997), Charlotte Taffin (1988), and Rebecca Flannery Major League II (1994) are other roles. Doody started modelling when she was approached. It turned out to be a profitable career. Doody was adamantly against the glamour of thongs, nakedness and nudity in her modelling career. In the event that she was brought to director's attention in a James Bond film, Doody was offered a small role on the film A View to a Kill (1985). Doody was named as one the twelve most promising young actors in the year 1986 in John Willis Screen World. 38. Only 18 years old when she appeared in the role Doody was and is the youngest Bond girl who has appeared in a film. The year 1987 was the time Mickey Rourke starred in A Prayer for the Dying in which she portrayed IRA Member Siobhan Donovan. Doody was an actress in silent films in a 1987 adaptation of The Secret Garden, playing Archibald Craven's dream bride Lilias. In the Jim Henson fantasy episode The Storyteller in 1988, Doody played Sapsorrow with John Hurt Dawn French Jennifer Saunders. She played opposite Pierce Brosnan, in the 1988 film Taffin. She then took on her greatest role as Austrian archaeologist and Nazisympathiser The doctor. Elsa Schneider playing alongside Harrison Ford. Doody has worked with three James Bond actors. In the year 1991, Doody co-starred opposite Jonathan Pryce in British mini-series Selling Hitler inspired by the publication fraud, also known as the Hitler Diaries. Doody later moved to Hollywood. The choice was made to replace Cybill Shepherd as the spokeswoman of L'Oreal she was later chosen to perform alongside Charlie Sheen in 1994's Major League II as Flannery his agent and girlfriend. Doody's return to the big screen took place in 2003, when Michael Caine played Doody in the role of a brief. Doody's roles included an appearance in a TV film version of King Solomon's Mines in 2004 as well as a booklet on the Holocaust as well as the short film Benjamin's Struggle in 2005. In 2010, Doody shot a part of Danny Dyer's movie The Rapture (2010). Then, she appeared on RTE's medical thriller The Clinic. She was scheduled to also be the star of an adaptation in 2011 of the classic horror film The Asphyx. However, that project eventually stalled. In 2011, she started the second season on E4 comedy show Beaver Falls playing Pam Jefferson. In 2014, she was on the show as Pam Jefferson in We Still Kill the Old Way. In November 2018 she was awarded the Almeria tierra de Cine Award and received a Star on the Walk of Fame in Almeria.