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Anneke Wills Biography and Full Filmography - MovieWise

Quick Facts

Born:
1941-10-20

Birthplace:
Berkshire, England, UK

Credits:
45 Total Roles

Anneke Wills

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Biography

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).

Known For

Full Filmography

Year Title Role
2023 Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace MOVIE Polly Wright (voice)
2020 The Power of the Daleks: Special Edition MOVIE Polly Wright
2020 Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones MOVIE Polly (voice)
2019 Doctor Who: The Macra Terror MOVIE Polly Wright (voice)
2018 Doctor Who: Behind the Sofa TV Self
2018 Remembering Deborah Watling MOVIE Self
2017 Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time MOVIE Polly (archive footage)
2017 The Doctors: The Pat Troughton Years MOVIE Self
2016 Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks MOVIE Polly (Voice)
2013 The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot MOVIE Self

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