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Anneke Wills
ActorBorn October 20, 1941 (83 years)
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
| 2019 | Doctor Who: The Macra Terror · as Polly Wright (voice) |
| 2018 | Doctor Who: Devious (TV Series) · as Polly Wright |
| 2017 | Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time · as Polly (archive Footage) |
| 2017 | |
| 2016 | Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks · as Polly (voice) |
| 2013 | An Adventure in Space and Time · as Party Guest |
| 2013 | Being a Girl · as Polly |
| 2009 | Cybermen · as Polly |
| 2008 | The Ties That Bind Us · as Polly Wright |
| 2007 | The Crowded TARDIS · as Polly |
| 2003 | |
| 1999 | |
| 1998 | |
| 1998 | Doctor Who: The Missing Years · as Polly |
| 1993 | Doctor Who: Thirty Years in the TARDIS · as Polly |
| 1992 | Cybermen: The Early Years · as Polly Wright |
| 1969 | Strange Report (TV Series) · as Evelyn Mclean |
| 1967 | Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones · as Polly |
| 1967 | Doctor Who: The Moonbase · as Polly |
| 1967 | Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace · as Polly |
| 1966 | Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet · as Polly |
| 1966 | Doctor Who: The War Machines · as Polly |
| 1965 | Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) · as Julia |
| 1965 | The Pleasure Girls · as Angela |
| 1964 | The Likely Lads (TV Series) · as Judith Francis |
| 1964 | The Wednesday Play (TV Series) · as Leda |
| 1964 | Nothing But the Best · as Young Wife |
| 1963 | Doctor Who (TV Series) · as Polly |
| 1963 | The Sentimental Agent (TV Series) · as Sarah |
| 1962 | |
| 1962 | Some People · as Anne |
| 1962 | Candidate for Murder · as Jacqueline |
| 1961 | The Avengers (TV Series) · as Judy |
| 1960 | The Strange World of Gurney Slade (TV Series) · as Girl On Airfield |
| 1960 | BBC Sunday-Night Play (TV Series) · as Katrina Hoefler |
| 1959 | No Hiding Place (TV Series) |
| 1959 | The Edgar Wallace Mysteries (TV Series) · as Jacqueline |
| 1957 | Emergency-Ward 10 (TV Series) · as Clarissa Wallace |
| 1956 | Armchair Theatre (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1955 | ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) · as Chris Durley |
| 1955 | ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) · as Peggy |
| 1954 | Child's Play · as Alice Nightingale |