Alison Doody

Alison Doody has been an Irish model and actor since 11 November 1996. After her first small performance 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 on to portray the Nazi-sympathizing Elsa Schneider. Siobhan in A Prayer for the Dying, Charlotte in Taffin and Rebecca Flannery Major League II. Doody was invited by a photographer, and started to take on the role of model. She then developed a career of commercial modelling. Doody was adamantly against glamour and nude work a clause which allowed her to pursue an acting profession. When she was spotted by the director of casting in the upcoming James Bond movie, she was cast of A View to a Kill as Jenny Flex. Doody was named one of the 12 most promising new Actors from 1986 in John Willis Screen World, Vol. 38. Doody was just turning 18 when she took on the character of Bond girl. She remains the youngest Bondgirl to date. Another film from her early days played a tiny part in the film in a small role as IRA Siobhan Doovan, a member of the IRA in A Prayer for the Dying (1987) that featured Mickey Rourke. Doody was seen as Archibald Craven in his dreams in the 1987 version of The Secret Garden. She played Lilias. In the Jim Henson fantasy episode The Storyteller in 1988, Doody portrayed Sapsorrow with John Hurt Dawn French Jennifer Saunders. The first time she appeared was in the movie Taffin alongside Pierce Brosnan. Next, she portrayed the role of Dr. Elsa Schneider as an Austrian archaeologist, Nazi-sympathizer, and antagonist to Harrison Ford. Doody played the role alongside Sean Connery, who played Indiana Jones' father. Doody co-starred in 1991 with Jonathan Pryce opposite the British miniseries Selling Hitler, which was an inspiration for the book fraud known as the Hitler Diaries. Then she moved to Hollywood. She went on as Flannery Charlie Sheen's agent and partner on the set of Major League II. She was selected as the replacement for Cybill Shepherd who was L'Oreal's first spokeswoman. Doody returned to acting in 2003, playing a small role on the British comedy The Actors, in which Michael Caine played herself at an awards ceremony. In 2004, she appeared alongside Patrick Swayze as a television adaptation of King Solomon's Mines. She was also on Benjamin's Struggle, a 2005 pamphlet on the Holocaust. Doody was cast in Danny Dyer's The Rapture (2009). Then, she appeared in the RTE medical thriller The Clinic. She was also set to play the lead role in a remake in 2011 of the horror classic The Asphyx. However, that project eventually stalled. In 2011 she began the first season of two on E4 comedy show Beaver Falls playing Pam Jefferson. She also starred as Pam Jefferson in We Still Kill the Old Way. The film was awarded the Almeria tierra de cinema award on November 21, 2018.