Anneke Wills
Acting
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
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movieDoctor Who: The Underwater Menace
2023
Polly Wright (voice)
movieDoctor Who: The Faceless Ones
2020
Polly (voice)
movieDoctor Who: The Macra Terror
2019
Polly Wright (voice)
movieDoctor Who: Twice Upon a Time
2017
Polly (archive footage)
movieDoctor Who: The Power of the Daleks
2016
Polly (Voice)
movieDoctor Who: Meanwhile in the TARDIS: Part 2
2010
Polly Wright (archive footage)
movieThe Ties That Bind Us
2008
Polly Wright (archive footage)
movieDoctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks
1984
Polly Wright (archive footage) (uncredited)
tvStrange Report
1969
Evelyn McLean
tvThe Likely Lads
1964
Judith Francis
movieNothing But the Best
1964
Young Wife
tvDoctor Who
1963
Polly Wright / Polly
tvThe Saint
1962
Fran Roeding
movieCandidate for Murder
1962
Jacqueline
movieThe Light Fantastic
1960
Girl in Flamenco Club
tvThe Strange World of Gurney Slade
1960
Girl on Airfield (as Annika Wills)
movieChild's Play
1954
Alice Nightingale