Anneke Wills
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- October 20, 1941 (age 85)
- Birthplace
- Berkshire, England, UK
Biography
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).
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Filmography
Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace
Movie · as Polly Wright (voice)
Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones
Movie · as Polly (voice)
Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
Movie · as Polly Wright (voice)
Remembering Deborah Watling
Movie · as Self
Doctor Who: Behind the Sofa
TV · as Self · 4 eps
The Doctors: The Pat Troughton Years
Movie
Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time
Movie · as Polly (archive footage)
Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks
Movie · as Polly (Voice)
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
Movie · as Self
Second Time Around: The Troughton Years
Movie
The End of the Line?
Movie
Doctor Who: Meanwhile in the TARDIS: Part 2
Movie · as Polly Wright (archive footage)
The Ties That Bind Us
Movie · as Polly Wright (archive footage)
Now, Get Out of That
Movie
The Dalek Tapes
Movie · as Self
The Story of Doctor Who
Movie
Carnival of Monsters
Movie
Lust in Space
Movie · as Self
Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary
Movie · as Self
Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks
Movie · as Polly Wright (archive footage) (uncredited)
Strange Report
TV · as Evelyn McLean · 16 eps
Doctor Who: The Highlanders
Movie · as Polly
Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace
Movie · as Polly
Doctor Who: The Moonbase
Movie · as Polly
Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
Movie · as Polly
Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones
Movie · as Polly
Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet
Movie · as Polly
Doctor Who: The War Machines
Movie · as Polly
Doctor Who: The Smugglers
Movie · as Polly
Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks
Movie · as Polly
The Pleasure Girls
Movie · as Angela
Thirty-Minute Theatre
TV · as Julia · 1 ep
Nothing But the Best
Movie · as Young Wife
The Likely Lads
TV · as Judith Francis · 1 ep
The Wednesday Play
TV · as Leda · 1 ep
Doctor Who
TV · as Polly Wright · 4 eps
The Sentimental Agent
TV · as Sarah · 1 ep
Some People
Movie · as Anne
Candidate for Murder
Movie · as Jacqueline
The Saint
TV · as Fran Roeding · 1 ep
The Avengers
TV · as Judy, Pussy Cat · 1 ep
Winning Widows
TV · as Sheila · 1 ep
The Light Fantastic
Movie · as Girl in Flamenco Club
The Strange World of Gurney Slade
TV · as Girl on Airfield (as Annika Wills) · 1 ep
No Hiding Place
TV · 2 eps
Child's Play
Movie · as The Holy Terrors - Alice Nightingale (as Anneke Willys)