Anneke Wills

Acting

Anneke Wills

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
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Birthday
Oct 20, 1941 (84 years old)

Anneke Wills

Known For

Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace
1h 39m
DOLBY
Movie 2023

Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace

The Doctor and his friends find themselves in the lost...

Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
1h 32m
DOLBY
Movie 2019

Doctor Who: The Macra Terror

The original 1967 master recordings of ‘The Macra Terror’ were...

Remembering Deborah Watling
31min
DOLBY
Movie 2018

Remembering Deborah Watling

Family, friends and colleagues pay tribute to Debbie Watling who...

Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time
1h
DOLBY
Movie 2017

Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time

As the Twelfth Doctor nears regeneration, he stumbles on his...

The Doctors: The Pat Troughton Years
6h
DOLBY
Movie 2017

The Doctors: The Pat Troughton Years

This is the definitive set of interviews with the team...

Second Time Around: The Troughton Years
52min
DOLBY
Movie 2012

Second Time Around: The Troughton Years

Writers, directors, actors and other people associated with Doctor Who...

The End of the Line?
43min
DOLBY
Movie 2011

The End of the Line?

Once the nation's favourite, by its third year Doctor Who...

Doctor Who: Meanwhile in the TARDIS: Part 2
4min
DOLBY
Movie 2010

Doctor Who: Meanwhile in the TARDIS: Part 2

Amy tries to flirt with The Doctor but he tries...

The Ties That Bind Us
16min
DOLBY
Movie 2008

The Ties That Bind Us

A look at the subtle (and not so subtle!) links...

The Dalek Tapes
55min
DOLBY
Movie 2006

The Dalek Tapes

A look at the appearances of the Daleks and Davros...

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).