The youngest of three children, Doody was born in Dublin, Ireland. Her mother, Joan, was a beauty therapist, and her father, Patrick, worked in the property business and farmed.[2] Doody attended Mount Anville Secondary School.
Career
Approached by a photographer, Doody took up modeling, which turned into a commercial career. Doody avoided glamour and nude work, a point which she extended to her acting career.
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 was listed as one of 12 Promising New Actors of 1986 in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 38. Still only 18 when she appeared in the role, Doody was – and remains – the youngest Bond girl to date.[3] Another early movie was a small part as IRA member Siobhan Donovan in A Prayer for the Dying (1987), which starred Mickey Rourke.
After 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.[4] She played alongside Patrick Swayze in the 2004 television film King Solomon's Mines and also starred in a short called Benjamin's Struggle (2005),[citation needed] a pamphlet about the Holocaust, and in the TV series Waking the Dead (in a two-part episode called "The Fall"). In 2010, Doody shot a part in Danny Dyer's film The Rapture (2010). She later guest starred in RTÉ's medical drama The Clinic.[citation needed], and was set to star in a 2011 remake of horror classic The Asphyx, but the project later stalled.
In 2011, she began the first of two series on E4 comedy-drama Beaver Falls, playing Pam Jefferson. In 2014 she appeared in We Still Kill the Old Way.
On 21 November 2018, she received the "Almería, tierra de cine" award,[5] and she received a star on Almeria Walk of Fame.[6]
On 20 November 2019 she made her debut in the Indian film industry with the film RRR.[7]
Personal life
Doody married Gavin O'Reilly, CEO of the Independent News & Media, on 25 June 1994, at the O'Reilly family residence Castlemartin. The couple made their home at Bartra House,[8] a 10,000-square-foot (930m2) home overlooking the sea in Dalkey; at the time of purchase, it was the most expensive house in Ireland.[9] The marriage produced two daughters. She separated from O'Reilly in 2004, and divorced him in 2006.[10][11][failed verification][citation needed]
During the 2011 filming of the comedy-drama Beaver Falls in South Africa, Doody met Douglas De Jager, a packaging tycoon from Cape Town. The couple had been keeping their relationship low-key, before De Jager died of a heart attack in July 2012.[12]
She was engaged to businessman Tadhg Geary from 2014 to 2015.[13]
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