Alison Doody

Alison Doody (born 11 November 1966) is a famous Irish actress and model. Following her small debut performance as an archaeologist Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in 1989, her role as Elsa Schneider - a Nazi-sympathizing character in A View to a Kill (Bond film, 1985), she went onto portray the Nazi-sympathizing Elsa Schneider. Siobhan Doovan played Charlotte on Taffin in 1988 and Rebecca Flannery starred in Major League II in 1994. Photographer approached Doody Doody took up modelling that eventually led to a career in commercial modelling. Doody was adamantly against glamour and naked work, a rule that was extended to her acting career. After being spotted by of the director who cast a new James Bond film she accepted the role of Jenny Flex in 1985's A View to a Kill. Doody was selected as one of the twelve most promising actors of the year in 1986 in John Willis Screen World. 38. Doody had just turned 18 years old at the time she was cast in the role as a Bond girl. She remains the youngest Bondgirl to date. In 1987, Mickey Rourke starred in A Prayer for the Dying in which she portrayed IRA Member Siobhan Donovan. Doody had a non-speaking role in the 1987 TV version of The Secret Garden appearing as Archibald Craven's wife Lilias in his dream. The Storyteller episode from 1988 was her first appearance in the main part in the film Sapsorrow, alongside John Hurt Dawn French Jennifer Saunders. She played opposite Pierce Brosnan, in the 1988 film Taffin. Then she took her biggest role yet in the film Taffin as Austrian Archaeologist and Nazisympathiser Doctor. Elsa Schneider playing alongside Harrison Ford. Doody is part of the James Bond family, having acted along with Sean Connery and Jonathan Pryce in the film Indiana Jones and the Final Crusade. In the year 1991, Doody was co-starring with Jonathan Pryce in British mini-series Selling Hitler inspired by the publishing fraud known as the Hitler Diaries. Then, she moved to Hollywood. The decision was made to replace Cybill Shepard as L'Oreal spokeswoman and continued to play opposite Charlie Sheen as Flannery, his wife and agent as Flannery's girlfriend and agent in Major League II. After a long absence from the screen Doody came back to acting, with a small role in 2003 British comedy film The Actors with Michael Caine as her character in the award ceremony scene. She was in the film together with Patrick Swayze, in the 2004 TV film version to King Solomon's Mines. In 2010 Doody shot a part in Danny Dyer's film The Rapture (2010). In the following year, she was a guest in RTE's Medical thriller The Clinic. She was also set to appear in an adaptation in 2011 of the horror movie The Asphyx. However, the project was ultimately canceled. Her first 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 was awarded the Almeria Tierra de Cinema Award and received a Star on the Walk of Fame in Almeria.