Alison Doody
Alison Doody is an Irish model and actress. She was born on 11th November, 1966. Her debut film performance as an archaeologist Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, 1989's Elsa Schneider - a Nazi-sympathizing character in A View to a Kill (Bond film 1985) She went on to perform the role of Nazisympathizing Elsa Schneider. Siobhan in A Prayer for the Dying, Charlotte in Taffin and Rebecca Flannery Major League II. Doody was approached by a photographer and started to model. She then developed her career as a commercial model. Doody was adamantly against glamour and nude work a clause which she extended to her acting profession. After catching the eye of the director of casting in the upcoming James Bond movie, she took a part of A View to a Kill in the role of Jenny Flex. Doody was named one of the twelve most promising young actors in 1986 in John Willis Screen World. 38. Doody was just turning 18 at the time she was cast in the role as a Bond girl. She remains the youngest Bond girl to date. A Prayer for the Dying (1997) which starred Mickey Rourke, also featured a smaller role as IRA Siobhan. Doody played an unseen role as the wife of Archibald Craven Lilias during his dream, 1987's adaptation of The Secret Garden. The Storyteller episode from 1988 featured her in the lead character in Sapsorrow, alongside John Hurt Dawn French Jennifer Saunders. She acted alongside Pierce Brosnan as Dr. Elsa Schneider, an Austrian Nazi sympathizer and an forensic archaeologist in the 1989 film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Doody played alongside Sean Connery in the film, as Indy's dad. In the year 1991, Doody co-starred opposite Jonathan Pryce in British mini-series Selling Hitler inspired by the publishing fraud known as the Hitler Diaries. Doody then relocated to Hollywood. She went on as Flannery the agent of Charlie Sheen as well as girlfriend in Major League II. She had been chosen as the replacement for Cybill Shepherd, who was L'Oreal's first spokeswoman. After a long absence from the stage Doody returned to acting with a small role in 2003 British comedy movie The Actors with Michael Caine acting as herself in an event scene for the award ceremony. She played alongside Patrick Swayze in a 2004 film adaptation for television to King Solomon's Mines and also appeared in a short film called Benjamin's Struggle (2005) a pamphlet about the Holocaust as well as in the British TV series Waking the Dead (in a two-part episode called. Doody filming a character in Danny Dyer's film The Rapture. Later, she appeared as a guest in the medical drama of RTE The Clinic and was set to be the lead actress in a remake of the classic horror film The Asphyx but the project later stalled. In 2011 she began the second season on the E4 comedy drama Beaver Falls playing Pam Jefferson. The show featured her in We Still Kill the Old Way, a 2014 film. Almeria film award, tierra de cine as well as an Almeria walk of fame star were presented on the 21st of November, 2018.
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