Alison Doody

Alison Doody (born 9 March 1966) Doody attended Mount Anville Secondary School.

Career Approached by a photographer, Doody took up modeling, which turned into a commercial career. Doody avoided glamour and nude work, a point which she extended to her acting career.

Having come to the attention of the casting director of a new James Bond film, she accepted a small part as Jenny Flex in 1985's A View to a Kill. Doody was listed as one of 12 Promising New Actors of 1986 in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 38. Still only 18 when she appeared in the role, Doody was – and remains – the youngest Bond girl to date. Another early appearance was as IRA member Siobhan Donovan in A Prayer for the Dying (1987), which starred Mickey Rourke.

Doody had a non-speaking role in the 1987 television adaptation of The Secret Garden appearing as Archibald Craven's wife, Lilias, in his dream. Her first lead role was in a 1988 episode of Jim Henson fantasy series The Storyteller as Sapsorrow, opposite John Hurt, Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders.

She played opposite Pierce Brosnan in the film Taffin (1988) before taking probably her most high-profile part to date, as Austrian Nazi-sympathiser and archaeologist Elsa Schneider in 1989's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade playing opposite Harrison Ford. The film also starred Sean Connery as Indy's father; Doody has acted alongside three actors (Moore, Connery, and Brosnan) who have portrayed James Bond.

In 1991, Doody co-starred opposite Jonathan Pryce in mini-series Selling Hitler, inspired by the publishing fraud known as the Hitler Diaries. She subsequently relocated to Hollywood. Chosen to replace Cybill Shepherd as spokeswoman for L'Oréal, she went on to play opposite Charlie Sheen in 1994's Major League II as Flannery, his girlfriend and agent.

After almost a decade away from the screen, Doody returned to acting with a small role in 2003 film The Actors with Michael Caine, playing herself in an award ceremony scene. She played alongside Patrick Swayze in the 2004 television film King Solomon's Mines and also starred in a short called Benjamin's Struggle (2005), a pamphlet about the Holocaust, and in the TV series Waking the Dead (in a two-part episode called "The Fall"). In 2010, Doody shot a part in Danny Dyer's film The Rapture (2010). She later guest starred in RTÉ's medical drama The Clinic, and was set to star in a 2011 remake of horror classic The Asphyx, but the project later stalled.

In 2011, she began the first of two series 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 received the "Almería, tierra de cine" award, and she received a star on Almeria Walk of Fame.

On 20 November 2019 she made her debut in the Indian film industry with the film RRR.

Personal life Doody married Gavin O'Reilly, CEO of the Independent News & Media, on 25 June 1994, at the O'Reilly family residence Castlemartin. The couple made their home at Bartra House, a home overlooking the sea in Dalkey; at the time of purchase, it was the most expensive house in Ireland. They had two daughters before separating in 2004 and divorcing in 2006.

During the 2011 filming of the comedy-drama Beaver Falls in South Africa, Doody met Douglas De Jager, a packaging tycoon from Cape Town. The couple had a low-key relationship before De Jager died of a heart attack in July 2012.

She was engaged to businessman Tadhg Geary from 2014 to 2015.

Filmography Film Year Title Role(s) Notes 1985 A View to a Kill Jenny Flex Film Debut 1987 A Prayer for the Dying Siobhan Donovan The Secret Garden Mrs. Lilias Craven (dream; cameos) 1988 Taffin Charlotte 1989 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Elsa Schneider 1991 Duel of Hearts Lady Caroline Faye 1992 Ring of the Musketeers Ann-Marie Athos 1994 Major League II Rebecca Flannery Temptation Lee Reddick 2003 The Actors Herself 2005 Benjamin's Struggle Katrina Stockhausen Short film 2010 The Rapture Professor Alison Hayes 2011 Billy & Chuck Mother Short film 2014 We Still Kill the Old Way Susan Taylor 2016 Brother Grace 2017 Division 19 Neilsen 2019 The Rising Hawk Rada Muse Grace 2022 RRR Lady Catherine Buxton Indian film

Television

Non-acting television Year Title Role Notes 1990 WoganHerself Series 92003 Entertainment Tonight 1st Irish Film & Television AwardsPresenterTV special 2004 2nd Irish Film & Television AwardsTV special 2006 The Hollywood Greats Series 7 with Harrison Ford2008 Indy's Women: The American Film Institute Tribute Herself XposéHerselfSeason 3 Episode 16 2009 The Late Late Show Herself 2010 7th Irish Film & Television Awards PresenterTV special

Documentaries Year Title Role Notes 2003 Indiana Jones: Making the TrilogyHerself 2004 Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde