Anneke Wills
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).
Acting
TV
Doctor Who
as Polly Wright
1963
TV
Doctor Who
as Polly
1963
TV
The Avengers
as Judy
1961
Movie
Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time
as Polly (archive footage)
2017
TV
The Saint
as Fran Roeding
1962
Movie
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
as Self
2013
Movie
Doctor Who: Meanwhile in the TARDIS: Part 2
as Polly Wright (archive footage)
2010
Movie
The Pleasure Girls
as Angela
1965
Movie
Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet
as Polly
1966
TV
The Likely Lads
as Judith Francis
1964
Movie
Nothing But the Best
as Young Wife
1964
Movie
Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks
as Polly
1966
Movie
Child's Play
as Alice Nightingale
1954
Movie
Doctor Who: The War Machines
as Polly
1966
Movie
Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace
as Polly
1967
Movie
Doctor Who: The Moonbase
as Polly
1967
Movie
Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones
as Polly
1967
Movie
Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks
as Polly Wright (archive footage) (uncredited)
1984
Movie
Some People
as Anne
1962
Movie
Doctor Who: The Highlanders
as Polly
1967
Movie
Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
as Polly
1967
TV
The Wednesday Play
as Leda
1964
Movie
Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
as Polly Wright (voice)
2019
Movie
Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks
as Polly (Voice)
2016