Anneke Wills
Born: 1941-10-20 in Berkshire, England, UK
Known For: Acting
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
2023
- Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace as Polly Wright (voice)
2020
- The Power of the Daleks: Special Edition as Polly Wright
- 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)
- The Doctors: The Pat Troughton Years
2016
- Servants and Masters the Making of 'The Power of the Daleks' as Self
- Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks as Polly (Voice)
2015
2013
- Frozen Out as Self
- The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot as Self
2011
2010
- Doctor Who: Meanwhile in the TARDIS: Part 2 as Polly Wright (archive footage)
2009
- Girls! Girls! Girls - The 1960s as Self
2008
- The Ties That Bind Us as Polly Wright (archive footage)
- Now, Get Out of That
- WOTAN Assembly as Self (Narrator)
2006
- The Dalek Tapes as Self
2002
1998
- Lust in Space as Self
1996
- Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary as Self
1993
- Myth Makers 26: Anneke Wills as Self
1984
- Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks as Polly Wright (archive footage) (uncredited)
1969
- Strange Report as Evelyn McLean
1967
- Doctor Who: The Macra Terror as Polly
- Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace as Polly
- Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones as Polly
- Doctor Who: The Highlanders as Polly
- Doctor Who: The Moonbase as Polly
1966
- Doctor Who: The Smugglers as Polly
- Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks as Polly
- Doctor Who: The War Machines as Polly
- Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet as Polly
1965
- The Pleasure Girls as Angela
1964
- The Wednesday Play as Leda
- Nothing But the Best as Young Wife
- The Likely Lads as Judith Francis
1963
- Doctor Who as Polly Wright
- The Sentimental Agent as Sarah
1962
- The Saint as Fran Roeding
- Some People as Anne
- Candidate for Murder as Jacqueline
1961
- The Avengers as Judy
1960
- The Light Fantastic as Girl in Flamenco Club
1959
1954
- Child's Play as Alice Nightingale