Anneke Wills

Actor · Born October 20, 1941 · Berkshire, England, UK

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).

Acted in 39

2020s

2023
Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace
Polly Wright (voice)
2020
Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones
Polly (voice)

2010s

2019
Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
Polly Wright (voice)
2017
Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time
Polly (archive footage)
The Doctors: The Pat Troughton Years
Movie
2016
Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks
Polly (Voice)
2012
Second Time Around: The Troughton Years
Movie
2011
The End of the Line?
Movie
2010
Doctor Who: Meanwhile in the TARDIS: Part 2
Polly Wright (archive footage)

2000s

2008
Now, Get Out of That
Movie
The Ties That Bind Us
Polly Wright (archive footage)
2003
The Story of Doctor Who
Movie

1990s

1999
Carnival of Monsters
Movie

1980s

1984
Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks
Polly Wright (archive footage) (uncredited)

1960s

1969
Strange Report
Evelyn McLean · 16 episodes
1967
Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones
Polly
Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
Polly
Doctor Who: The Moonbase
Polly
Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace
Polly
Doctor Who: The Highlanders
Polly
1966
Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks
Polly
Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet
Polly
Doctor Who: The Smugglers
Polly
Doctor Who: The War Machines
Polly
1965
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Julia · 1 episode
The Pleasure Girls
Angela
1964
The Likely Lads
Judith Francis · 1 episode
The Wednesday Play
Leda · 1 episode
Nothing But the Best
Young Wife
1963
Doctor Who
Polly Wright, Polly · 4 episodes
83
The Sentimental Agent
Sarah · 1 episode
1962
The Saint
Fran Roeding · 1 episode
75
Some People
Anne
Candidate for Murder
Jacqueline
1961
The Avengers
Judy, Pussy Cat · 1 episode
82
1960
The Light Fantastic
Girl in Flamenco Club
The Strange World of Gurney Slade
Girl on Airfield (as Annika Wills) · 1 episode