Alison Doody

Alison Doody has been an Irish model and actor since 11 November 1996. Her first feature film appearance was in a minor part in The James Bond film A View to a Kill. (1985). Then, later, she portrayed Nazi-sympathising Archaeologist Elsa Schneider (Indiana Jones and in the Last Crusade 1989). Siobhan Donovan was Charlotte on Taffin in 1988 and Rebecca Flannery starred in Major League II in 1994. Doody was invited by a photographer, and started to model. Doody then began to build a career of commercial modelling. Doody strictly avoided the glamour of thongs, nakedness and nudity during her modeling career. When she came to the director's notice 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 listed as one of 12 Promising New Actors of 1986 by John Willis Screen World, Volume. 38. Doody was only aged 18 at the time of her appearance in the Bond role. Today, she is the youngest Bond girl. The year 1987 was the time Mickey Rourke starred in A Prayer for the Dying where she played IRA members Siobhan Doovan. Doody was seen as Archibald Craven in his dreams in the 1987 adaptation from The Secret Garden. She also played Lilias. The first time she played the lead in an episode from 1988 of the Jim Henson fantasy series The Storyteller in the role of Sapsorrow opposite John Hurt Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders. She acted alongside Pierce Brosnan as Dr. Elsa Schneider, an Austrian Nazi sympathiser and a forensic archaeologist in the 1989 movie Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Doody appeared alongside Sean Connery in the film in the role of Indy's father. Doody played co-starring in 1991 with Jonathan Pryce opposite the British miniseries Selling Hitler, which was an inspiration for the book fraud known as The Hitler Diaries. Later, she relocated to Hollywood. She starred as Flannery on the screen in Major League II, opposite Charlie Sheen. Doody, who had been away from acting for almost 10 years, returned in 2003 to play a small role on the British comedy The Actors in which Michael Caine appeared as her in a scene during an awards ceremony. She was in the film with Patrick Swayze, in the 2004 TV film version of King Solomon's Mines. Doody had a minor role in Danny Dyer's movie The Rapture (2010). She guested in RTE's the medical thriller The Clinic. The project was eventually canceled. She began her first two seasons on Beaver Falls, the E4 comedy Beaver Falls in 2011 as Pam Jefferson. In 2014, she starred as Pam Jefferson on We Still Kill the Old Way. In November of 2018 she received the Almeria Tierra de Cinema Award and was awarded a Star on the Walk of Fame in Almeria.