Alison Doody

Alison Doody was born in Dublin in the Republic of Ireland, on the 11th of November 1996. She is a model as well as an Irish actor. After making her debut in a feature film by playing a minor role in the Bond film A View to a Kill (1985) she went on to portray the Nazi-sympathising archaeologist Elsa Schneider, in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). Siobhan was in A Prayer for the Dying, Charlotte in Taffin and Rebecca Flannery Major League II. Doody was invited by a photographer, and started to model. Then she began a career of commercial modelling. Doody was adamantly against glamour and naked work, a rule that was extended to her acting profession. After catching the eye of the casting director for the upcoming James Bond movie, she was cast in A View to a Kill in the role of Jenny Flex. Doody was named one of the top 12 promising young Actors of 1986 in John Willis Screen World, Volume. 38. At just 18 when she appeared in the character Doody was, and still is - the youngest Bond girl to date. In 1987, Mickey Rourke starred in A Prayer for the Dying in which she portrayed IRA member Siobhan Doovan. Doody had an unspoken role as Archibald Craven's spouse Lilias when she appeared in the film adaptation of his fantasy, 1987's version to The Secret Garden. The episode of the Storyteller Sapsorrow was her first lead part. It took place in 1988 with Dawn French, John Hurt and 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 Nazisympathiser and Archaeologist Dr. Elsa Schneider playing alongside Harrison Ford. In the film, she also appeared alongside Sean Connery as Indy's father Doody was a part of three actors who have portrayed James Bond. Doody was a co-star in the year 1991 alongside Jonathan Pryce opposite the British mini-series Selling Hitler, which was inspired by the publication fraud called the Hitler Diaries. Following her move to Hollywood Doody was famous. She was chosen to replace Cybill Shepard in the role of L'Oreal spokeswoman. She went on to star opposite Charlie Sheen as Flannery, his agent and girlfriend in Major League II. Doody's first appearance on the screen was in 2003 when Michael Caine played Doody in an uncredited role. The roles she played included a TV movie adaptation of King Solomon's Mines in 2004, a booklet about the Holocaust, and a short film called Benjamin's Struggle in 2005. Doody made an appearance on Danny Dyer 2010's The Rapture. She guested in RTE's the medical thriller The Clinic. The project was later canceled. Pam Jefferson was her character in the E4 comedy Beaver Falls for two seasons. In 2014 she starred in We Still Kill the Old Way. In November of 2018 she was awarded the Almeria tierra de Cine Award and was awarded a Star on the Almeria Walk of Fame.