Alison Doody

Alison Doody, born 11 November 1966 in Ireland, is a model and actor. Her feature film debut was in a minor role in her debut role in the Bond film A View to a Kill. (1985). In the following film she played the Nazi-sympathising archaeologist Elsa Schneider (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 1989). Siobhan Doovan played Charlotte on Taffin in 1988 and Rebecca Flannery starred in Major League II in 1994. Doody started modelling after being approached by. It turned out to be an extremely lucrative profession. Doody did not like glamour or nude work, a rule that she incorporated into her acting. When she came to the director's attention in a James Bond film, Doody took on a part in A View to a Kill (1985). Doody was selected as one of the top twelve promising actors of the year in 1986 by John Willis Screen World. 38. Only 18 years old at the time she acted in the role Doody was - and remains one of the smallest Bond girl that has ever appeared. A Prayer for the Dying with Mickey Rourke also had a part for Doody as IRA Siobhan. Doody played Archibald Craven's wife Lilias as he portrayed his fantasy in 1987's television adaptation The Secret Garden. In the Jim Henson fantasy episode The Storyteller in 1988, Doody portrayed Sapsorrow along with John Hurt Dawn French Jennifer Saunders. The actress played Pierce Brosnan, in the 1988 film Taffin. She then took on her most memorable role to date as Austrian archaeologist and Nazisympathiser Doctor. Elsa Schneider playing alongside Harrison Ford. Doody has worked with three James Bond actors. Doody costarred with Jonathan Pryce, in the British mini-series Selling Hitler. The series was an inspiration for the Hitler Diaries publishing scam. Then, she moved to Hollywood. Chosen to replace Cybill Shepherd as spokeswoman for L'Oreal she was later chosen to perform alongside Charlie Sheen in 1994's Major League II in the role of Flannery his girlfriend and agent. Doody made her acting comeback in 2003, playing a small part in the British comedy film The Actors, in which Michael Caine played herself at the awards ceremony. In 2004, she starred with Patrick Swayze as a television adaptation of King Solomon's Mines. She played a role in Benjamin's Struggle, a 2005 pamphlet on the Holocaust. Doody was a part-time actress in Danny Dyer's film The Rapture (2010). She was also to be the main character in The Asphyx remake, but this project did not go ahead. In 2011, she started the second season on E4 comedy show Beaver Falls playing Pam Jefferson. In 2014, she starred as Pam Jefferson on We Still Kill the Old Way. On 21 November 2018 she was awarded by the Almeria tierra de cine award as well as a star in Almeria Walk of Fame.