Alison Doody

Alison Doody has been an Irish actor and model since November 11, 1996. After her first small role as an archaeologist in 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 portray the Nazi-sympathizing Elsa Schneider. Siobhan Donnevan as A Prayer for the Dying (1997), Charlotte Taffin (1988) as well as Rebecca Flannery Major League II (1994) are other roles. Doody began her modeling career after her being approached by a aspiring photographer. The career she pursued has transformed into commercial modeling. Doody was averse to glamour and nude work. This was a principle she carried over to her acting. When she came to the director's notice for a James Bond film, Doody took on a part in A View to a Kill (1985). Doody was on John Willis Screen World Volume 2. She was one of twelve promising actors to be cast in 1986. 38. Still only 18 when she appeared in the film, Doody was - and remains one of the smallest Bond girl to date. A Prayer for the Dying featuring Mickey Rourke in 1987, was another early film where Doody played IRA Siobhan. Doody played an unseen role in the film as Archibald Craven's wife Lilias during the film adaptation of his fantasy, 1987's version of The Secret Garden. The storyteller's episode Sapsorrow was her first leading part. It aired in 1988 opposite John Hurt, Dawn France and Jennifer Saunders. She played opposite Pierce Brosnan, in the 1988 film Taffin. Then she took her most memorable role to date as Austrian Archaeologist and Nazisympathiser Doctor. Elsa Schneider playing alongside Harrison Ford. Doody appeared alongside Sean Connery in the film, as Indy's dad. Doody played alongside Jonathan Pryce as Hitler Diaries, a British mini-series based on Hitler Diaries. In Hollywood Doody moved to. The role she played was Flannery in Major League II, opposite Charlie Sheen. After nearly a decade from screen Doody came back to acting, by playing a minor role in the 2003's British comedy movie The Actors with Michael Caine playing herself in an award ceremony scene. She played alongside Patrick Swayze in a 2004 TV movie adaptation from King Solomon's Mines and also starred in a short called Benjamin's Struggle (2005) a pamphlet that discussed the Holocaust as well as in the British TV show Waking the Dead (in a two-part show named. Doody was also cast in Danny Dyer's The Rapture (2009). In the following year, she was a guest on RTE's Medical thriller The Clinic. She was scheduled to also be the star of an adaptation in 2011 of the horror movie The Asphyx. However, that project eventually stalled. Pam Jefferson was her character in the E4 comedy Beaver Falls for two seasons. The show featured her in We Still Kill the Old Way, a 2014 film. On 21 November 2018 she was awarded by the Almeria tierra de cine award as well as an award in the Almeria Walk of Fame.