Alison Doody

Alison Doody (born 11 November 1966) is an Irish model and actress. Her debut came in the Bond movie, A View to a Kill in the year 1985. In 1989, she played an archaeologist with Nazi sympathies Elsa Schneider in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Siobhan Doovan portrayed Charlotte as Taffin in 1988 and Rebecca Flannery starred in Major League II in 1994. A photographer approached Doody. Doody decided to take up modeling and subsequently an industry-related career in modelling. Doody was averse to glamour and nude work, a rule she carried over to her acting. In the event that she was brought to director's attention for the role in a James Bond film, Doody was offered a small role on the film A View to a Kill (1985). Doody was selected as one of the 12 most promising young actors in 1986 in John Willis Screen World. 38. Still only 18 as she played the film, Doody was - and remains one of the smallest Bond girl to date. Another film from her early days had her in a minor role as IRA member Siobhan Donovan on A Prayer for the Dying (1987) which featured Mickey Rourke. Doody was an actress in silent films in a 1987 film adaptation to The Secret Garden, playing Archibald Craven's dream wife Lilias. The Storyteller episode from 1988 was her first appearance in the main part in the film Sapsorrow and was portrayed by John Hurt Dawn French Jennifer Saunders. She worked with Pierce Brosnan as Dr. Elsa Schneider, an Austrian Nazi sympathizer as well as a forensic archaeologist in the 1989 movie Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Doody has collaborated with three James Bond actors. Doody was a co-star in the year 1991 alongside Jonathan Pryce opposite the British miniseries Selling Hitler, which was in the spirit of a publication scam known as The Hitler Diaries. After moving to Hollywood, Doody became an international star. She took over Cybill Shepherd as the L'Oreal spokesperson role. She then played Flannery Sheen's wife and agent alongside Charlie Sheen, as Major League II was released in 1994. Doody was away from acting for almost 10 years, returned in 2003 to play a small part in the British comedy The Actors in which Michael Caine appeared as her in a scene during an award ceremony. She played alongside Patrick Swayze in a 2004 TV movie adaptation from King Solomon's Mines and also starred in a short called Benjamin's Struggle (2005) a pamphlet about the Holocaust as well as in the British TV program Waking the Dead (in a two-part series known as. In 2010 Doody played a role in Danny Dyer's film The Rapture (2010). Doody appeared on RTE's Medical drama The Clinic. The project was later canceled. In 2011, she started the first season of two on E4 comedy drama Beaver Falls playing Pam Jefferson. She also appeared as Pam Jefferson in We Still Kill the Old Way. In November, she won the Almeria award for best film as well as a star on the Almeria Walk of Fame.