Alison Doody (born November 11, 1966) is an Irish actress and model.
The youngest of three children, she was born to a well-off family in Dublin, Ireland. Her mother, Joan, was a beauty therapist, and her father, Patrick, worked in the property business and farmed. Doody attended Mount Anville Secondary School. She studied at the National College of Fine Arts, but left after a year.
Approached by a photographer, she took up modeling, which turned...
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Alison Doody (born November 11, 1966) is an Irish actress and model.
The youngest of three children, she was born to a well-off family in Dublin, Ireland. Her mother, Joan, was a beauty therapist, and her father, Patrick, worked in the property business and farmed. Doody attended Mount Anville Secondary School. She studied at the National College of Fine Arts, but left after a year.
Approached by a photographer, she took up modeling, which turned into a career in commercial modeling as she stringently avoided glamour and nude work -- a clause which she extended to her acting career. She came to the attention of the casting director of a new James Bond film and accepted a part as Jenny Flex in 1985's A View to a Kill. She was listed as one of 12 "Promising New Actors of 1986" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 38. [1986].
She then 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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