Anneke Wills
Anneke Wills is a British actress famous for playing Polly, the swinging sixties companion to the first and second Doctor in Doctor Who from 1966 to 1967. Other roles include Evelyn in the ITC drama The Strange Report (1969-1970) and guest appearances in The Avengers and Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased). Film roles include Anne in Some People (1962) and Angela in The Pleasure Girls (1965). From 1962 to 1979 she was married to Michael Gough but has subsequently twice remarried. The father of her first child was Anthony Newley, who left her for Joan Collins. In 1970 Wills effectively gave up acting to be a full time mum. Following her divorce from Gough, she left the UK in 1980 and lived in various places in the 16 years afterwards, including in Laos, Vietnam and India in the early 1980s, in the USA from 1983–1986, and in Canada from 1986–1996. She returned to live in the UK in 1996 and is a popular figure on the Doctor Who convention circuit. She has returned sporadically to acting for Doctor Who themed productions and has published three volumes of her memoirs: Self Portrait (2007), Naked (2009), and In Focus (2012).
Known For
Credits
- 2023 · Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace as Polly Wright (voice)
- 2020 · Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones as Polly (voice)
- 2019 · Doctor Who: The Macra Terror as Polly Wright (voice)
- 2018 · Remembering Deborah Watling as Self
- 2017 · Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time as Polly (archive footage)
- 2017 · The Doctors: The Pat Troughton Years as
- 2016 · Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks as Polly (Voice)
- 2013 · The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot as Self
- 2005 · Doctor Who as Polly (archive footage)
- 2003 · The Story of Doctor Who as
- 2002 · Myth Makers 53: Patrick Troughton as Herself
- 1999 · Carnival of Monsters as
- 1999 · Myth Makers 43: William Hartnell as
- 1998 · Lust in Space as
- 1996 · Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary as Self
- 1969 · Strange Report as Evelyn McLean
- 1967 · Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones as Polly
- 1967 · Doctor Who: The Macra Terror as Polly
- 1967 · Doctor Who: The Moonbase as Polly
- 1967 · Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace as Polly
- 1967 · Doctor Who: The Highlanders as Polly
- 1966 · Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks as Polly
- 1966 · Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet as Polly
- 1966 · Doctor Who: The Smugglers as Polly
- 1966 · Doctor Who: The War Machines as Polly
- 1965 · The Pleasure Girls as Angela
- 1964 · The Likely Lads as Judith Francis
- 1964 · Nothing But the Best as Young Wife
- 1963 · Doctor Who as Polly Wright
- 1963 · Doctor Who as Polly
- 1962 · The Saint as Fran Roeding
- 1962 · Some People as Anne
- 1961 · The Avengers as Judy
- 1959 · No Hiding Place as
- 1954 · Child's Play as Alice Nightingale