Alison Doody

Alison Doody has been an Irish model and actor since 11 November 1996. After her first small part as an archaeologist Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in 1989, her role as Elsa Schneider - a Nazi-sympathizing character in A View to a Kill (Bond film 1985) and then went on to play the Nazisympathizing Elsa Schneider. The other roles she played include Siobhan Donavan in A Prayer for the Dying (1987) Charlotte in Taffin (1988) and Rebecca Flannery in Major League II (1994). Doody was a model when she was approached. The outcome proved to be a profitable career. Doody did not wear fashion, thongs and glamour in her modelling career. After catching the eye of the casting director for an upcoming James Bond movie, she participated of A View to a Kill in the role of Jenny Flex. Doody's name was featured in John Willis Screen World Vol. 12 which features the most promising actors in 1986. 38. Doody was still only 18 when she made her appearance in the Bond role. Today Doody is considered to be the youngest Bond girl. A Prayer for the Dying which starred Mickey Rourke also had a performance by Doody, playing IRA Siobhan. Doody played Archibald Craven's wife Lilias In his dream in the 1987 adaptation of The Secret Garden. Doody performed the role of Sapsorrow in the Jim Henson's fantasy series The Storyteller, opposite John Hurt Dawn French Jennifer Saunders. She played opposite Pierce Brosnan, in the 1988 film Taffin. In the following film, she played her most memorable role to date as Austrian Nazisympathiser and Archaeologist Doctor. Elsa Schneider playing alongside Harrison Ford. Doody has collaborated with three James Bond actors. Doody played the role in the British series Selling Hitler with Jonathan Pryce. The show was inspired by The Hitler Diaries publication scam. In Hollywood Doody moved to. The role she played was Flannery in Major League II, opposite Charlie Sheen. Doody's return to the big screen came in 2003, when Michael Caine played Doody in a short role. She starred along with Patrick Swayze, in the 2004 TV film version to King Solomon's Mines. Doody was a part-time actress in Danny Dyer's movie The Rapture (2010). The Clinic, a medical drama on RTE. The Asphyx was her 2011 remake. The year 2011 saw her debut on the first season of two in the E4 comedy drama Beaver Falls playing Pam Jefferson. She appeared in We Still Kill the Old Way (2014). In November, she won the Almeria tierra de Cine Award and was awarded a Star on the Walk of Fame in Almeria.