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. 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"). 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"., and was set to star in a 2011 remake of horror classic "The Asphyx", but the project later stalled.