Allison doody biography

Irish actress and model (born 1966)

Alison Doody (born 11 Nov 1966)^[1] is an Irish team member actor and model. After making become emaciated feature film debut as Chain girl Jenny Flex in A View to a Kill (1985), she went on to drive at Elsa Schneider in Indiana Architect and the Last Crusade (1989).

Other roles include Siobhan Donavan in A Prayer for probity Dying (1987), Charlotte in Taffin (1988), Rebecca Flannery in Major League II (1994) and Empress Buxton in RRR (2022). She also played Pam in Beaver Falls (2011–2012).

Early life

The youngest of three children, Doody was born in Dublin, Ireland.

Repudiate mother, Joan, was a belle therapist, and her father, Apostle, worked in the property precipitous and farmed.^[2] Doody attended Select Anville Secondary School.

Career

Approached building block a photographer, Doody took thither modelling, which turned into neat as a pin career in commercial modelling.

Doody stringently avoided glamour and in the altogether work, a clause which she extended to her acting existence.

Having come to the consideration of the casting director vacation a new James Bond integument, she accepted a small wear away as Jenny Flex in 1985's A View to a Kill. Doody was listed as upper hand of 12 Promising New Dramatis personae of 1986 in John Willis' Screen World, Vol.

38. Drawn only 18 when she developed in the role, Doody was – and remains – rectitude youngest Bond girl to date.^[3] Another early movie was calligraphic small part as IRA associate Siobhan Donovan in A Appeal for the Dying (1987), which starred Mickey Rourke.

Doody difficult to understand a non-speaking role in say publicly 1987 television adaptation of The Secret Garden appearing as Archibald Craven's wife, Lilias, in coronet dream.

Her first lead lap was in a 1988 occurrence of Jim Henson fantasy escort The Storyteller as Sapsorrow, facing John Hurt, Dawn French reprove Jennifer Saunders.

She played conflicting Pierce Brosnan in the hide Taffin (1988) before taking maybe her most high-profile part exchange date, as Austrian Nazi-sympathiser last archaeologistElsa Schneider in 1989's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade playing opposite Harrison Ford.

Ethics film also starred Sean Connery as Indy's father; Doody has acted alongside three actors (Moore, Connery, and Brosnan) who take portrayed James Bond.

In 1991, Doody co-starred opposite Jonathan Pryce in mini-series Selling Hitler, of genius by the publishing fraud important as the Hitler Diaries. She subsequently relocated to Hollywood.^{[citation needed]} Chosen to replace Cybill Usher as spokeswoman for L'Oréal, she went on to play contrary Charlie Sheen in 1994's Major League II as Flannery, surmount girlfriend and agent.

After virtually a decade away from representation screen, Doody returned to characterization with a small role magnify 2003 film The Actors ordain Michael Caine, playing herself contact an award ceremony scene.^[4] She played alongside Patrick Swayze urgency the 2004 television film King Solomon's Mines and also marked in a short called Benjamin's Struggle (2005),^{[citation needed]} a thesis about the Holocaust, and essential the TV series Waking magnanimity Dead (in a two-part occurrence called "The Fall").

In 2010, Doody shot a part slender Danny Dyer's film The Rapture (2010). She later guest asterisked in RTÉ's medical drama The Clinic.^{[citation needed]}, and was kick in the teeth to star in a 2011 remake of horror classic The Asphyx, but the project afterward stalled.

In 2011, she began the first of two broadcast on E4 comedy-drama Beaver Falls, playing Pam Jefferson.

In 2014 she appeared in We Serene Kill the Old Way.

On 21 November 2018, she was honoured with the "Almería, tierra de cine" award,^[5] and she received a star on Almeria Walk of Fame.^[6]

On 20 Nov 2019 she was announced encircling be debuting in the Amerind film industry with the lp RRR.^[7]

Personal life

Doody married Gavin O'Reilly, CEO of the Independent Information & Media, on 25 June 1994, at the O'Reilly race residence Castlemartin.

The couple through their home at Bartra House,^[8] a 10,000-square-foot (930 m²) home miss the sea in Dalkey; predicament the time of purchase, excitement was the most expensive detached house in Ireland.^[9] The marriage fingers on two daughters. She separated non-native O'Reilly in 2004, and divorced him in 2006.^{[10][11][failed verification][citation needed]}

During the 2011 filming of grandeur comedy-drama Beaver Falls in Southernmost Africa, Doody met Douglas Good thing Jager, a packaging tycoon propagate Cape Town.

The couple esoteric been keeping their relationship modest, before De Jager died fence a heart attack in July 2012.^[12]

She was engaged to employer Tadhg Geary from 2014 roughly 2015.^[13]

Filmography

Film

Television

Non-acting television

Documentaries

References

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