Anneke Wills
Biography
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).
Personal Details
Movies (35)
Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace
as Polly Wright (voice)
2023
The Power of the Daleks: Special Edition
as Polly Wright
2020
Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones
as Polly (voice)
2020
Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
as Polly Wright (voice)
2019
Remembering Deborah Watling
as Self
2018
Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time
as Polly (archive footage)
2017
The Doctors: The Pat Troughton Years
2017
Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks
as Polly (Voice)
2016
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
as Self
2013
Second Time Around: The Troughton Years
2012
The End of the Line?
2011
Doctor Who: Meanwhile in the TARDIS: Part 2
as Polly Wright (archive footage)
2010
Now, Get Out of That
2008
The Ties That Bind Us
as Polly Wright (archive footage)
2008
The Dalek Tapes
as Self
2006
The Story of Doctor Who
2003
Carnival of Monsters
1999
Lust in Space
as Self
1998
Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary
as Self
1996
Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks
as Polly Wright (archive footage) (uncredited)
1984
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
1967
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
1966
The Pleasure Girls
as Angela
1965
Nothing But the Best
as Young Wife
1964
Some People
as Anne
1962
Candidate for Murder
as Jacqueline
1962
The Light Fantastic
as Girl in Flamenco Club
1960
Child's Play
as Alice Nightingale
1954
