Cast & creator
Anneke Wills
Best known for Doctor Who, Doctor Who, The Wednesday Play
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).
34
film credits
13
television credits
47
1954–2023 · acting roles
6.9
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (47)
Showing 47 of 47 credits
Doctor Who
Polly Wright
1963Doctor Who
Polly
1963
The Wednesday Play
Leda
1964
The Avengers
Judy
1961
The Saint
Fran Roeding
1962
No Hiding Place
1959
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Julia
1965
Doctor Who: Behind the Sofa
Self
2018
The Likely Lads
Judith Francis
1964
Strange Report
Evelyn McLean
1969
The Sentimental Agent
Sarah
1963
The Strange World of Gurney Slade
Girl on Airfield (as Annika Wills)
1960
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
Self
2013
Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time
Polly (archive footage)
2017
Nothing But the Best
Young Wife
1964
Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks
Polly Wright (archive footage) (uncredited)
1984
Some People
Anne
1962
Doctor Who: The Moonbase
Polly
1967
The Pleasure Girls
Angela
1965
Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones
Polly
1967
Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks
Polly
1966
The Ties That Bind Us
Polly Wright (archive footage)
2008
Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary
Self
1996
Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet
Polly
1966Winning Widows
Sheila
1961
The Story of Doctor Who
2003
Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace
Polly
1967
Doctor Who: The War Machines
Polly
1966
Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
Polly Wright (voice)
2019
Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace
Polly Wright (voice)
2023
Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
Polly
1967
Now, Get Out of That
2008
Doctor Who: The Highlanders
Polly
1967
Second Time Around: The Troughton Years
2012
The Doctors: The Pat Troughton Years
2017
Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones
Polly (voice)
2020
The End of the Line?
2011
Doctor Who: The Smugglers
Polly
1966
Doctor Who: Meanwhile in the TARDIS: Part 2
Polly Wright (archive footage)
2010
The Light Fantastic
Girl in Flamenco Club
1960
Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks
Polly (Voice)
2016
The Dalek Tapes
Self
2006
Child's Play
Alice Nightingale
1954
Candidate for Murder
Jacqueline
1962
Carnival of Monsters
1999
Lust in Space
Self
1998
Remembering Deborah Watling
Self
2018