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Anneke Wills

Born · October 20, 1941 (83 years old)

Known For: Acting

Place of Birth: Berkshire, England, UK

Bio

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

Doctor Who

Doctor Who

Doctor Who

Doctor Who

The Avengers

The Avengers

Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time

Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time

Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace

Polly Wright (voice)

2023

Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones

Polly (voice)

2020

Doctor Who: The Macra Terror

Polly Wright (voice)

2019

Remembering Deborah Watling

Self

2018

Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time

Polly (archive footage)

2017

The Doctors: The Pat Troughton Years

2017

Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks

Polly (Voice)

2016

The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot

Self

2013

Second Time Around: The Troughton Years

2012

The End of the Line?

2011

Doctor Who: Meanwhile in the TARDIS: Part 2

Polly Wright (archive footage)

2010

The Ties That Bind Us

Polly Wright (archive footage)

2008

The Dalek Tapes

Self

2006

The Story of Doctor Who

2003

Myth Makers 53: Patrick Troughton

Herself

2002

Carnival of Monsters

1999

Myth Makers 43: William Hartnell

1999

Lust in Space

Self

1998

Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary

Self

1996

Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks

Polly Wright (archive footage) (uncredited)

1984

Strange Report

Evelyn McLean · (16 episodes)

1969

Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones

Polly

1967

Doctor Who: The Macra Terror

Polly

1967

Doctor Who: The Moonbase

Polly

1967

Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace

Polly

1967

Doctor Who: The Highlanders

Polly

1967

Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks

Polly

1966

Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet

Polly

1966

Doctor Who: The Smugglers

Polly

1966

Doctor Who: The War Machines

Polly

1966

The Pleasure Girls

Angela

1965

The Likely Lads

Judith Francis · (1 episode)

1964

The Wednesday Play

Leda · (1 episode)

1964

Nothing But the Best

Young Wife

1964

Doctor Who

Polly Wright · (4 episodes)

1963

Doctor Who

Polly · (32 episodes)

1963

The Saint

Fran Roeding · (1 episode)

1962

Some People

Anne

1962

The Avengers

Judy · (2 episodes)

1961

The Light Fantastic

Girl in Flamenco Club

1960

No Hiding Place

(2 episodes)

1959

Child's Play

Alice Nightingale

1954