Anneke Wills
Acting • Born 1941-10-20
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).
Filmography
45 credits
Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones
Movie • 2020
Polly (voice)
The Pleasure Girls
Movie • 1965
Angela
Some People
Movie • 1962
Anne
Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace
Movie • 2023
Polly Wright (voice)
Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
Movie • 2019
Polly Wright (voice)
Lust in Space
Movie • 1998
Self
The Doctors: The Pat Troughton Years
Movie • 2017
Remembering Deborah Watling
Movie • 2018
Self
Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks
Movie • 2016
Polly (Voice)
Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet
Movie • 1966
Polly
Child's Play
Movie • 1954
Alice Nightingale
Doctor Who: The Highlanders
Movie • 1967
Polly
Doctor Who: The War Machines
Movie • 1966
Polly
Doctor Who: The Smugglers
Movie • 1966
Polly
Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace
Movie • 1967
Polly
Doctor Who: The Moonbase
Movie • 1967
Polly
Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
Movie • 1967
Polly
Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones
Movie • 1967
Polly
Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary
Movie • 1996
Self
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
Movie • 2013
Self
Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time
Movie • 2017
Polly (archive footage)
Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks
Movie • 1966
Polly
The Story of Doctor Who
Movie • 2003
Carnival of Monsters
Movie • 1999
Nothing But the Best
Movie • 1964
Young Wife
The Dalek Tapes
Movie • 2006
Self
Doctor Who: Meanwhile in the TARDIS: Part 2
Movie • 2010
Polly Wright (archive footage)
Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks
Movie • 1984
Polly Wright (archive footage) (uncredited)
The End of the Line?
Movie • 2011
Second Time Around: The Troughton Years
Movie • 2012
The Light Fantastic
Movie • 1960
Girl in Flamenco Club
The Ties That Bind Us
Movie • 2008
Polly Wright (archive footage)
Candidate for Murder
Movie • 1962
Jacqueline
Now, Get Out of That
Movie • 2008
The Power of the Daleks: Special Edition
Movie • 2020
Polly Wright
The Avengers
TV • 1961
Judy
The Saint
TV • 1962
Fran Roeding
No Hiding Place
TV • 1959
Strange Report
TV • 1969
Evelyn McLean
Doctor Who
TV • 1963
Polly Wright
The Likely Lads
TV • 1964
Judith Francis
Doctor Who
TV • 1963
Polly
The Wednesday Play
TV • 1964
Leda
The Sentimental Agent
TV • 1963
Sarah
Doctor Who: Behind the Sofa
TV • 2018
Self