Alison Doody

Alison Doody has been an Irish model and actor since 11 November 1996. Her debut came in the Bond movie, A View to a Kill in the year 1985. She starred in 1989 as an archaeologist with Nazi sympathies Elsa Schneider in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Siobhan Doovan played Charlotte on Taffin in 1988 and Rebecca Flannery starred in Major League II in 1994. Doody was a model when she was approached. The outcome proved to be a profitable career. Doody was extremely determined not to do the glamorous work or doing nude. The same rule continued into Doody's acting work. If she came to the director's notice for the role in a James Bond film, Doody took on a part in A View to a Kill (1985). Doody was named one of the twelve most promising actors of the year in 1986 in John Willis Screen World. 38. Only 18 years old at the time she acted in the role Doody was and is the youngest Bond girl to date. A Prayer for the Dying (1997), starring Mickey Rourke, also featured a smaller role as IRA Siobhan. Doody played a non-speaking part in the 1987 adaptation of The Secret Garden appearing as Archibald Craven's wife Lilias in a dream. The Storyteller episode from 1988 included her in the leading role of Sapsorrow and was portrayed by John Hurt Dawn French Jennifer Saunders. She acted alongside Pierce Brosnan as Dr. Elsa Schneider, an Austrian Nazi sympathizer and an archaeologist for forensics in the film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Doody is a member of the James Bond family, having acted along with Sean Connery and Jonathan Pryce in 1989's Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade. In 1991 Doody played alongside Jonathan Pryce in British mini-series Selling Hitler inspired by the published fraud known as The Hitler Diaries. Doody then relocated to Hollywood. The role she played was Flannery in Major League II, opposite Charlie Sheen. After a long absence from screen Doody was back in the acting world with a small role in 2003 British comedy film The Actors with Michael Caine acting as herself in an event scene for the award ceremony. She was in the film alongside Patrick Swayze, in the 2004 TV film adaptation to King Solomon's Mines. Doody was as a character in Danny Dyer 2010's The Rapture. In the following year, she was a guest in RTE's Medical thriller The Clinic. She was scheduled to also play the lead role in an adaptation in 2011 of the classic horror film The Asphyx. However, that project eventually stalled. Pam Jefferson is her role in the E4 Comedy Drama Beaver Falls' first of two seasons. In 2014, she appeared in We Still Kill the Old Way. In November, she won the Almeria award for best film and received a Star on the Walk of Fame in Almeria.