1. Alison Doody was born on March 9,1966 and is an Irish actress and model.
13 Facts About Alison Doody
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The youngest of three children, Doody was born in Dublin, Ireland.
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Alison Doody's mother, Joan, was a beauty therapist, and her father, Patrick, worked in the property business and farmed.
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Alison Doody avoided glamour and nude work, a point which she extended to her acting career.
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Alison Doody was listed as one of 12 Promising New Actors of 1986 in John Willis' Screen World, Vol.
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Alison 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.
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Alison Doody played opposite Pierce Brosnan in the film Taffin 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.
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The film starred Sean Connery as Indy's father; Alison Doody has acted alongside three actors who have portrayed James Bond.
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In 1991, Alison Doody co-starred opposite Jonathan Pryce in mini-series Selling Hitler, inspired by the publishing fraud known as the Hitler Diaries.
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Alison Doody played alongside Patrick Swayze in the 2004 television film King Solomon's Mines and starred in a short called Benjamin's Struggle, a pamphlet about the Holocaust, and in the TV series Waking the Dead.
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In 2010, Alison Doody shot a part in Danny Dyer's film The Rapture.
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Alison Doody separated from O'Reilly in 2004, and divorced him in 2006.
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Alison Doody was engaged to businessman Tadhg Geary from 2014 to 2015.