Anneke Wills
Actor
Born October 20, 1941 in Berkshire, England, UK
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
Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace
Polly Wright (voice)
Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones
Polly (voice)
Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
Polly Wright (voice)
Doctor Who: Behind the Sofa
Self
Remembering Deborah Watling
Self
Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time
Polly (archive footage)
The Doctors: The Pat Troughton Years
Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks
Polly (Voice)
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
Self
Second Time Around: The Troughton Years
The End of the Line?
Doctor Who: Meanwhile in the TARDIS: Part 2
Polly Wright (archive footage)
Now, Get Out of That
The Ties That Bind Us
Polly Wright (archive footage)
The Dalek Tapes
Self
The Story of Doctor Who
Carnival of Monsters
Lust in Space
Self
Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary
Self
Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks
Polly Wright (archive footage) (uncredited)
Strange Report
Evelyn McLean
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
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
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Julia
The Pleasure Girls
Angela
The Likely Lads
Judith Francis
The Wednesday Play
Leda
Nothing But the Best
Young Wife
Doctor Who
Polly Wright
The Sentimental Agent
Sarah
The Saint
Fran Roeding
Some People
Anne
Candidate for Murder
Jacqueline
The Avengers
Judy
The Light Fantastic
Girl in Flamenco Club
The Strange World of Gurney Slade
Girl on Airfield (as Annika Wills)
No Hiding Place
Child's Play
Alice Nightingale