
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).
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TV Shows
Known For
45 Credits
Doctor Who
as Polly Wright
1963

Doctor Who
as Polly
1963

The Saint
as Fran Roeding
1962

The Avengers
as Judy
1961

No Hiding Place
1959

The Wednesday Play
as Leda
1964

The Likely Lads
as Judith Francis
1964

Doctor Who: Behind the Sofa
as Self
2018

The Sentimental Agent
as Sarah
1963

Strange Report
as Evelyn McLean
1969

Some People
as Anne
1962

Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time
as Polly (archive footage)
2017