ĭuring the 2011 filming of the comedy-drama Beaver Falls in South Africa, Doody met Douglas De Jager, a packaging tycoon from Cape Town. She separated from O'Reilly in 2004, and divorced him in 2006. The couple made their home at Bartra House, a 10,000-square-foot (930 m 2) home overlooking the sea in Dalkey at the time of purchase, the most expensive house in Ireland. Personal life ĭoody married Gavin O'Reilly, CEO of the Independent News & Media on 25 June 1994, at the O'Reilly family residence Castlemartin. On 20 November 2019 she was announced to be debuting in the Indian film industry with the film RRR. On 21 November 2018 she was honoured with the "Almería, tierra de cine" award, and she received a star on Almeria Walk of Fame. In 2014 she appeared in We Still Kill the Old Way. In 2011 she began the first of two series on E4 comedy-drama Beaver Falls, playing Pam Jefferson. , and was set to star in a 2011 remake of horror classic The Asphyx, but the project later stalled. She later guest starred in RTÉ's medical drama The Clinic. In 2010, Doody shot a part in Danny Dyer's film The Rapture (2010). She played alongside Patrick Swayze in a 2004 television movie adaptation of 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"). 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.Īfter 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. In 1991 Doody co-starred opposite Jonathan Pryce in mini-series Selling Hitler, inspired by the publishing fraud known as the Hitler Diaries. 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. 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. 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. Another early movie was a small part as IRA member Siobhan Donovan in A Prayer for the Dying (1987), which starred Mickey Rourke.ĭoody had a non-speaking role in the 1987 television adaptation of The Secret Garden appearing as Archibald Craven's wife, Lilias, in his dream. Still only 19 when she appeared in the role, Doody was – and remains – the youngest Bond girl to date. Doody was listed as one of 12 Promising New Actors of 1986 in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 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 stringently avoided glamour and nude work, a clause which she extended to her acting career. Doody attended Mount Anville Secondary School.Īpproached by a photographer, Doody took up modelling, which turned into a career in commercial modelling. Her mother, Joan, was a beauty therapist, and her father Patrick, worked in the property business and farmed. The youngest of three children, Doody was born in Dublin, Ireland.
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