Alison Doody

Alison Doody was born in Dublin in the Republic of Ireland, on the 11th of November 1996. The model is as well an Irish actress. After her first small part as an archaeologist Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in 1989's Elsa Schneider - a Nazi-sympathizing character in A View to a Kill (Bond film 1985), she went onto play the Nazisympathizing Elsa Schneider. Siobhan Donnevan is in A Prayer for the Dying (1997), Charlotte Taffin (1988) as well as Rebecca Flannery Major League II (1994) were other characters. Doody was invited by a photographer, and started to take on the role of model. Then she began her career as a commercial model. Doody strictly avoided glamour, nudity and thongs during her modeling career. When she came to the director's attention for a James Bond film, Doody took on a part in A View to a Kill (1985). Doody was named one of the 12 most promising young actors in the year 1986 by John Willis Screen World. 38. Doody, who was only 18 at the time she portrayed Doody in the movie A Prayer for the Dying (1987), starring Mickey Rourke, is the tiniest Bond girl to be seen. in 1987 Mickey Rourke starred in A Prayer for the Dying where she played IRA member Siobhan Doovan. Doody played an unseen role as the wife of Archibald Craven Lilias during his film of a dream, the 1987 adaptation to The Secret Garden. The first time she played the lead in a 1988 episode of Jim Henson fantasy series The Storyteller as Sapsorrow opposite John Hurt Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders. The year 1988 was the first time she starred alongside Pierce Brosnan on the movie Taffin. Her most recognizable role to date was as Austrian Nazi sympathiser as well as archaeologist Dr. Elsa Schneider opposite Harrison Ford in 1989's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Doody has collaborated with three James Bond actors. In 1991 Doody co-starred opposite Jonathan Pryce in British mini-series Selling Hitler inspired by the published fraud known as The Hitler Diaries. In Hollywood, she moved to. She went on as Flannery her agent as well as her girlfriend in Major League II. She was chosen to be an alternative to Cybill Shepherd who was once L'Oreal's spokeswoman. After a long absence from screen Doody was back in the acting world and acted in a tiny role in 2003 British comedy movie The Actors with Michael Caine acting as herself in an award ceremony scene. Her roles include an appearance in a TV movie adaptation of King Solomon's Mines in 2004, a booklet about the Holocaust and the short film Benjamin's Struggle in 2005. Doody played a small role in Danny Dyer's film The Rapture (2010). 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 appeared on We Still Kill the Old Way (2014). In November she was awarded the Almeria Tierra de Cinema Award and was awarded a Star on the Walk of Fame in Almeria.