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).
44 acting credits
Acting · 44
The Avengers
1961
Doctor Who
1963
The Saint
1962
The Wednesday Play
1964
No Hiding Place
1959
The Likely Lads
1964
Strange Report
1969
Doctor Who: Behind the Sofa
2018
The Sentimental Agent
1963
The Strange World of Gurney Slade
1960
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
2013
Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time
2017
Doctor Who: Meanwhile in the TARDIS: Part 2
2010
The Ties That Bind Us
2008
Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks
1984
Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks
1966
Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones
1967
Nothing But the Best
1964
Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
1967
Some People
1962
Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace
1967
Candidate for Murder
1962
Child's Play
1954
Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace
2023
Doctor Who: The Moonbase
1967
The Pleasure Girls
1965
The Dalek Tapes
2006
Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary
1996
Lust in Space
1998
The Story of Doctor Who
2003
Doctor Who: The Smugglers
1966
Second Time Around: The Troughton Years
2012
Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet
1966
Doctor Who: The War Machines
1966
Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones
2020
The Light Fantastic
1960
Doctor Who: The Highlanders
1967
Carnival of Monsters
1999
The End of the Line?
2011
Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
2019
Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks
2016
The Doctors: The Pat Troughton Years
2017
Remembering Deborah Watling
2018
Now, Get Out of That
2008