Alison Doody
Alison Doody is an Irish model and actress. Her birth date was 11th November, 1966. Following her film debut by playing a minor role in the Bond film A View to a Kill (1985) she went on to appear as a anti-Nazi archaeologist Elsa Schneider, in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). There were also roles for Siobhan Dovan in A Prayer for the Dying (1987) Charlotte in Taffin (1988) as well as Rebecca Flannery in Major League II (1994). Approached by a photographer Doody took up modelling that eventually led to a career in commercial modelling. Doody was determined to steer clear of glamour and nude roles, this was the principle she followed in her acting. Doody was offered a tiny role in the film Jenny Flex for 1985's A View to a Kill when her name was picked by the director of casting. Doody was named one of the 12 most promising young actors in 1986 in John Willis Screen World. 38. At just 18 as she played the role Doody was and is - the youngest Bond girl who has appeared in a film. A Prayer for the Dying (1997) with Mickey Rourke, also featured an unimportant role in the form of IRA Siobhan. Doody was Archibald Craven's wife Lilias In his dream in the 1987 adaptation of The Secret Garden. Doody performed the role of Sapsorrow in an episode of Jim Henson's fable show The Storyteller, opposite John Hurt Dawn French Jennifer Saunders. She worked with Pierce Brosnan as Dr. Elsa Schneider, an Austrian Nazi sympathiser and a archaeologist from the forensic field in the 1989 film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Doody is a member of the James Bond family, having acted along with Sean Connery and Jonathan Pryce in the film Indiana Jones and the Final Crusade. Doody costarred with Jonathan Pryce, in the British miniseries Selling Hitler. The series was inspired by the Hitler Diaries publishing scam. Doody later moved to Hollywood. She played Flannery on the screen in Major League II, opposite Charlie Sheen. Doody returned to acting in 2003 when she played a minuscule role as a character in The Actors, a British comedy film The Actors, in which Michael Caine played herself at the awards ceremony. In 2004, she appeared alongside Patrick Swayze as a television adaptation of King Solomon's Mines. She also appeared in Benjamin's Struggle, a 2005 booklet on the Holocaust. Doody was as a character in Danny Dyer 2010's The Rapture. Then, she appeared in RTE's Medical thriller The Clinic. She was also set to be the star of a remake in 2011 of the horror movie The Asphyx. However, this project fell through. In 2011, she started the second season on E4 comedy drama Beaver Falls playing Pam Jefferson. In 2014 she appeared in We Still Kill the Old Way. On 21 November 2018 she was honored by the Almeria Tierra de Cine award and she received an award in the Almeria Walk of Fame.
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