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).
Filmography (45 titles)
1.0MovieDoctor Who: The Underwater Menace
Polly Wright (voice) · 2023
7.0MovieDoctor Who: The Faceless Ones
Polly (voice) · 2020
7.5MovieDoctor Who: The Macra Terror
Polly Wright (voice) · 2019
ShowDoctor Who: Behind the Sofa
Self · 2018
8.0MovieRemembering Deborah Watling
Self · 2018
8.0MovieDoctor Who: Twice Upon a Time
Polly (archive footage) · 2017
MovieThe Doctors: The Pat Troughton Years
2017
7.5MovieDoctor Who: The Power of the Daleks
Polly (Voice) · 2016
7.8MovieThe Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
Self · 2013
MovieSecond Time Around: The Troughton Years
2012
MovieThe End of the Line?
2011
6.5MovieDoctor Who: Meanwhile in the TARDIS: Part 2
Polly Wright (archive footage) · 2010
MovieNow, Get Out of That
2008
MovieThe Ties That Bind Us
Polly Wright (archive footage) · 2008
7.5MovieThe Dalek Tapes
Self · 2006
8.0MovieThe Story of Doctor Who
2003
7.0MovieCarnival of Monsters
1999
9.0MovieLust in Space
Self · 1998
7.5MovieBidding Adieu: A Video Diary
Self · 1996
7.9MovieDoctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks
Polly Wright (archive footage) (uncredited) · 1984
7.7ShowStrange Report
Evelyn McLean · 1969
7.9MovieDoctor Who: The Faceless Ones
Polly · 1967
8.0MovieDoctor Who: The Macra Terror
Polly · 1967
7.3MovieDoctor Who: The Moonbase
Polly · 1967
5.0MovieDoctor Who: The Underwater Menace
Polly · 1967
6.3MovieDoctor Who: The Highlanders
Polly · 1967
8.1MovieDoctor Who: The Power of the Daleks
Polly · 1966
7.9MovieDoctor Who: The Tenth Planet
Polly · 1966
5.8MovieDoctor Who: The Smugglers
Polly · 1966
7.4MovieDoctor Who: The War Machines
Polly · 1966