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Anneke Wills
Berkshire, England, UK
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 Evel…
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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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2023
Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace
Movie Polly Wright (voice)
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2020
Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones
Movie Polly (voice)
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2019
Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
Movie Polly Wright (voice)
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2018
Doctor Who: Behind the Sofa
TV show Self
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2018
Remembering Deborah Watling
Movie Self
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2017
Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time
Movie Polly (archive footage)
- 2017
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2016
Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks
Movie Polly (Voice)
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2013
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
Movie Self
- 2012
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2011
The End of the Line?
Movie
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2010
Doctor Who: Meanwhile in the TARDIS: Part 2
Movie Polly Wright (archive footage)
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2008
Now, Get Out of That
Movie
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2008
The Ties That Bind Us
Movie Polly Wright (archive footage)
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2006
The Dalek Tapes
Movie Self
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2003
The Story of Doctor Who
Movie
More credits
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1999
Carnival of Monsters
Movie
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1998
Lust in Space
Movie Self
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1996
Bidding Adieu: A Video Diary
Movie Self
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1984
Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks
Movie Polly Wright (archive footage) (uncredited)
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1969
Strange Report
TV show Evelyn McLean
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1967
Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones
Movie Polly
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1967
Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
Movie Polly
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1967
Doctor Who: The Moonbase
Movie Polly
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1967
Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace
Movie Polly
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1967
Doctor Who: The Highlanders
Movie Polly
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1966
Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks
Movie Polly
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1966
Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet
Movie Polly
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1966
Doctor Who: The Smugglers
Movie Polly
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1966
Doctor Who: The War Machines
Movie Polly
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1965
Thirty-Minute Theatre
TV show Julia
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1965
The Pleasure Girls
Movie Angela
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1964
The Likely Lads
TV show Judith Francis
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1964
The Wednesday Play
TV show Leda
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1964
Nothing But the Best
Movie Young Wife
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1963
Doctor Who
TV show Polly Wright
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1963
The Sentimental Agent
TV show Sarah
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1962
The Saint
TV show Fran Roeding
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1962
Some People
Movie Anne
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1962
Candidate for Murder
Movie Jacqueline
