Anneke Wills

Birthday: 1941-10-20
Birthplace: Berkshire, England, UK
Gender: Female
Owned By: Unowned

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).

Credits

Year Title Character
2023-11-13 Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace Polly Wright (voice)
2020-03-16 Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones Polly (voice)
2019-03-25 Doctor Who: The Macra Terror Polly Wright (voice)
2017-07-01 The Doctors: The Pat Troughton Years
2016-11-05 Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks Polly (Voice)
2003-12-30 The Story of Doctor Who
1999-11-13 Carnival of Monsters
1999-06-02 Myth Makers 43: William Hartnell
1998-05-28 Lust in Space
1967-05-13 Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones Polly
1967-04-01 Doctor Who: The Macra Terror Polly
1967-03-04 Doctor Who: The Moonbase Polly
1967-02-04 Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace Polly
1967-01-07 Doctor Who: The Highlanders Polly
1966-11-05 Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks Polly
1966-10-29 Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet Polly
1966-10-01 Doctor Who: The Smugglers Polly
1966-07-16 Doctor Who: The War Machines Polly
1965-05-01 The Pleasure Girls Angela
1964-03-10 Nothing But the Best Young Wife
1962-05-31 Some People Anne
1954-10-01 Child's Play Alice Nightingale