Alison Doody

Alison Doody was born in Dublin in 1966, in an upper-class family. She is the youngest child of three. She was educated in a convent and was able to develop a passion for arts. In the following years, she returned to the National College of Fine Arts in Dublin. But in the absence of motivation she decided she needed a rest and would give the school ten months. While sitting with her friends in a coffee shop where a photographer walked in, she was inquired if she would like to be a model. As she was convinced she could earn some cash modeling, she agreed. The modeling business proved entertaining and lucrative. And quickly she was modeling professionally. Modeling agreements led to commercials, and she travelled the globe. After seeing her work as an actor her work, she was urged to pursue modeling. She was 19 when she was referred to London where she got the audition to be in A View to a Kill ( 1985), a new James Bond movie. Her passion for acting led her to pursue it as a career. After her first film and a short film, she filmed a couple of TV series in London and Dublin But her most memorable breakthrough came when she was given the role of Aryan sexual seductress, The Dr. Elsa Schneider in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989).