Acting · Berkshire, England, UK · Born October 20, 1941
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).
MovieDoctor Who: The Underwater Menace
2023
as Polly Wright (voice)
MovieDoctor Who: The Faceless Ones
2020
as Polly (voice)
MovieDoctor Who: The Macra Terror
2019
as Polly Wright (voice)
TVDoctor Who: Behind the Sofa
2018
as Self
MovieRemembering Deborah Watling
2018
as Self
MovieDoctor Who: Twice Upon a Time
2017
as Polly (archive footage)
MovieThe Doctors: The Pat Troughton Years
2017
MovieDoctor Who: The Power of the Daleks
2016
as Polly (Voice)
MovieThe Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
2013
as Self
MovieSecond Time Around: The Troughton Years
2012
MovieThe End of the Line?
2011
MovieDoctor Who: Meanwhile in the TARDIS: Part 2
2010
as Polly Wright (archive footage)
MovieNow, Get Out of That
2008
MovieThe Ties That Bind Us
2008
as Polly Wright (archive footage)
MovieThe Dalek Tapes
2006
as Self
MovieThe Story of Doctor Who
2003
MovieCarnival of Monsters
1999
MovieLust in Space
1998
as Self
MovieBidding Adieu: A Video Diary
1996
as Self
MovieDoctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks
1984
as Polly Wright (archive footage) (uncredited)
TVStrange Report
1969
as Evelyn McLean
MovieDoctor Who: The Faceless Ones
1967
as Polly
MovieDoctor Who: The Macra Terror
1967
as Polly
MovieDoctor Who: The Moonbase
1967
as Polly
MovieDoctor Who: The Underwater Menace
1967
as Polly
MovieDoctor Who: The Highlanders
1967
as Polly
MovieDoctor Who: The Power of the Daleks
1966
as Polly
MovieDoctor Who: The Tenth Planet
1966
as Polly
MovieDoctor Who: The Smugglers
1966
as Polly
MovieDoctor Who: The War Machines
1966
as Polly
TVThirty-Minute Theatre
1965
as Julia
MovieThe Pleasure Girls
1965
as Angela
TVThe Likely Lads
1964
as Judith Francis
TVThe Wednesday Play
1964
as Leda
MovieNothing But the Best
1964
as Young Wife
TVDoctor Who
1963
as Polly Wright
TVThe Sentimental Agent
1963
as Sarah
TVThe Saint
1962
as Fran Roeding
MovieSome People
1962
as Anne
MovieCandidate for Murder
1962
as Jacqueline
TVThe Avengers
1961
as Judy
MovieThe Light Fantastic
1960
as Girl in Flamenco Club
TVThe Strange World of Gurney Slade
1960
as Girl on Airfield (as Annika Wills)
TVNo Hiding Place
1959
MovieChild's Play
1954
as Alice Nightingale
