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