Alison Doody

Alison Doody has been an Irish model and actor from 11 November 1996. After making her feature film debut with a small part in Bond film A View to a Kill (1985) she went on to portray the anti-Nazi archaeologist Elsa Schneider, in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). Siobhan Donnevan in A Prayer for the Dying (1997), Charlotte Taffin (1988), and Rebecca Flannery Major League II (1994) are other roles. Doody was invited by a photographer, and began to model. She then developed her career as a commercial model. Doody was adamantly against glamour and naked work, a rule that allowed her to pursue an acting career. If she came to the 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 one of the top twelve promising actors of the year in 1986 by John Willis Screen World. 38. Doody had just turned age 18 when she was given the role as a Bond girl. She is still the youngest Bond girl. A Prayer for the Dying (1997) with Mickey Rourke, also featured an unimportant role in the form of IRA Siobhan. Doody had a non-speaking role in the 1987 adaptation of The Secret Garden appearing as Archibald Craven's wife Lilias in a dream. She was Sapsorrow in an episode of Jim Henson's fantasy show The Storyteller, opposite John Hurt Dawn French Jennifer Saunders. She played opposite Pierce Brosnan, in the 1988 film Taffin. She then took on her most memorable role to date in the film Taffin as Austrian Archaeologist and Nazisympathiser Dr. Elsa Schneider playing alongside Harrison Ford. Doody has collaborated 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 then relocated to Hollywood. She took over Cybill Shepherd in the L'Oreal spokesperson role. Doody then appeared as Flannery Sheen's wife and agent opposite Charlie Sheen, as Major League II was released in 1994. After almost a decade away from screen Doody came back to acting, by playing a minor role in the 2003's British comedy film The Actors with Michael Caine as her character in the awards ceremony scene. The roles she played include an appearance in a TV movie version of King Solomon's Mines in 2004 as well as a booklet on the Holocaust and the short film Benjamin's Struggle in 2005. Doody was part of Danny Dyer's The Rapture (2009). Doody was later a guest on RTE's medical drama The Clinic and was set to appear in a remake of the classic horror film The Asphyx but the project ended up being cancelled. Pam Jefferson is her role in the E4 Comedy Drama Beaver Falls' first of two seasons. In 2014 she starred in We Still Kill the Old Way. The film was awarded the Almeria Tierra de Cinema award on the 21st of November, 2018.