Alison Doody

Alison Doody was born in Dublin in Ireland on November 11, 1996. Model as well as an Irish actress. Her feature film debut was a tiny part on the Bond film A View to a Kill. (1985). Later she played the Nazi-sympathising archaeologist Elsa Schneider (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 1989). Siobhan Doovan portrayed Charlotte in Taffin in 1988 and Rebecca Flannery starred in Major League II in 1994. A photographer approached Doody. Doody decided to take up modeling and subsequently a career in commercial modelling. Doody strictly avoided fashion, thongs and glamour during her modeling career. Doody was offered a tiny role in the film Jenny Flex for 1985's A View to a Kill when she was noticed by the director of casting. Doody was listed as one of 12 Promising New Actors of 1986 by John Willis Screen World, Vol. 38. Doody was just turning 18 years old when she was given the character as a Bond girl. She is still the youngest Bond girl to date. Another film from her early days was a small part as IRA member Siobhan Donovan on A Prayer for the Dying (1987) which featured Mickey Rourke. Doody played a non-speaking part in the 1987 television version of The Secret Garden appearing as Archibald Craven's wife Lilias in a dream. She played Sapsorrow in the Jim Henson's fable show The Storyteller, opposite John Hurt Dawn French Jennifer Saunders. She starred alongside Pierce Brosnan, in the 1988 film Taffin. In the following film, she played her biggest role yet as Austrian archaeologist and Nazisympathiser Dr. Elsa Schneider playing alongside Harrison Ford. Doody has been in three films with James Bond actors. Doody costarred with Jonathan Pryce, in the British mini-series Selling Hitler. The series was inspired by the Hitler Diaries publishing scam. When she moved to Hollywood, Doody became an international star. She played Flannery on the screen in Major League II, opposite Charlie Sheen. Doody, who had been absent from the stage for nearly 10 years, returned in 2003 to take on a tiny part in The Actors, a British comedy The Actors in which Michael Caine played her in a scene at the ceremony for awards. In 2004, Doody was in the film with Patrick Swayze alongside a TV version to King Solomon's Mines. Also Doody appeared on Benjamin's Struggle (2005), a pamphlet describing the Holocaust. Doody played a small role in Danny Dyer's movie The Rapture (2010). The Clinic, a medical drama that aired on RTE. The Asphyx was her 2011 remake. In 2011 she began the second season in the E4 comedy drama Beaver Falls playing Pam Jefferson. The show also featured her in We Still Kill the Old Way (2014). In November 2018 she received the Almeria tierra de Cine Award and was awarded a Star on the Walk of Fame in Almeria.