Alison Doody

Alison Doody (born 11 November 1966) is an Irish actress and model. She made her debut in a Bond movie, A View to a Kill in the year 1985. She starred in 1989 as Nazi-sympathizing archaeologist Elsa Schneider in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Siobhan is in A Prayer for the Dying, Charlotte in Taffin and Rebecca Flannery Major League II. Doody started modeling after being offered by an experienced photographer. The result was a successful professional career as a model for commercials. Doody did not shy away from glamour or naked work, a rule that allowed her to pursue an acting career. After catching the eye of the director of casting for an upcoming James Bond movie, she took a part of A View to a Kill in the role of Jenny Flex. Doody was named as one of 12 Promising New Actors of 1986 in John Willis Screen World, Vol. 38. Doody was only 18 years old when she made her debut in the Bond role. Today, she is the youngest Bond girl. A different early film was a small part as IRA member Siobhan Donovan on A Prayer for the Dying (1987) which featured Mickey Rourke. Doody was seen as Archibald Craven in his dreams in the 1987 television adaptation of The Secret Garden. She also played Lilias. The Storyteller episode from 1988 was her first appearance in the main character in the film Sapsorrow, alongside John Hurt Dawn French Jennifer Saunders. The year 1988 was the first time she appeared as Pierce Brosnan on the movie Taffin. Her most recognizable performance to date was her role as Austrian Nazi sympathiser as well as archaeologist Dr. Elsa Schneider opposite Harrison Ford in 1989's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. In the film, she also appeared alongside Sean Connery as Indy's father Doody is a co-star with three actors who have portrayed James Bond. In 1991 Doody played alongside Jonathan Pryce in British mini-series Selling Hitler inspired by the publishing fraud known as the Hitler Diaries. She then moved to Hollywood. She replaced Cybill Shepherd in the L'Oreal spokesperson role. She then played Flannery Sheen's lover and agent alongside Charlie Sheen, as Major League II came out in 1994. Doody made her acting comeback in 2003 with a minor part on The Actors, a British comedy film The Actors, in which Michael Caine played herself at an awards ceremony. In 2004, Doody appeared alongside Patrick Swayze alongside a TV adaptation to King Solomon's Mines. Also, she appeared as a character in Benjamin's Struggle (2005), which was a pamphlet that described the Holocaust. Doody was cast in Danny Dyer's The Rapture (2009). Doody appeared on RTE's Medical drama The Clinic. The project was later canceled. Pam Jefferson was her character in the E4 comedy Beaver Falls for two seasons. In 2014 she appeared in We Still Kill the Old Way. The film was awarded the Almeria film award on November 21, 2018.