Megan Follows
Biography
Megan Follows is a Canadian American stage, film and television actress, best known for playing Anne Shirley in the 1985 miniseries Anne of Green Gables, the highest-rated drama in Canadian television history. Her performance in the first three installments earned her two Gemini awards as best actress for the first two miniseries, Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel, and a Gemini nomination for the third, Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story.
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Acting History
2025
She Came Back as Janet
2024My Dead Mom as Fern
2024Heritage Minutes: Mary Riter Hamilton as Mary Riter Hamilton
2023Rabbit Hole as Senator Nora Evers
2020Lie Exposed as Diane
2020October Faction as Edith Mooreland
2019Hudson & Rex as Detective Sidney Scott
2017Home for the Holidays as Megan Byrne
2016Wynonna Earp as Michelle Gibson
2015Pirate's Passage as Meg O’Leary (voice)
2014Hard Drive as Barbara
2013Reign as Catherine de' Medici
2013Anne auf Green Gables 3 - Das Leben geht weiter
2012Flight of the Butterflies as Narrator
2012Where Are the Dolls as Elizabeth / Narrator
2012World Without End as Maud
2012Longmire as Alice Stewart
2011I Am Number Four as Supermarket Cashier (uncredited)
2010Republic of Doyle as Warden Barton
2009Booky's Crush as Francie Thomson
2009Lie to Me as Lorraine Burch
2008Raising the Bar as Reanne Chrisman
2007Booky & the Secret Santa as Francie Thomson
2007Breakfast with Scot as Barbara Warren
2007Heartland as Lily Borden
2006Brothers and Sisters as Maggie Stephens
2006Booky Makes Her Mark as Francie Thomson
2006The Great Polar Bear Adventure as Narrator (voice)
2006Kevin Sullivan's Classic as Self - Anne Shirley
2006L.M. Montgomery's Island as Anne Shirley (archive footage)
2005Shania A Life in Eight Albums as Sharon Twain
2005Robson Arms as Janice Keneally
2004House as Jennifer Williams
2004Christmas Child as Meg Davenport
2004Open Heart as Sherry Cardinal
2004Plainsong as Ella Guthrie
2004A Foreign Affair as Lena
2003Cold Case as Maura (2005)
2003Threat Matrix as Denise
2002CSI: Miami as Chloe Grand
2002The Stork Derby as Kate Harrington
2001Crossing Jordan as Beth
2001The Division as Science Teacher
2000CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Beth Darian
2000Strong Medicine as Dana's Doctor
2000Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story as Anne Shirley
2000Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story as Anne Shirley Blythe
1999American Prophet: The Story of Joseph Smith as Emma Smith (voice)
1999Family Law as Nancy Quinn
1999Big Wolf on Campus
1999What Katy Did as Cousin Helen
1997Major Crime as Joanie Wells
1997Reluctant Angel as Lisa / Cheryl
1996Under The Piano as Rosetta Basilio
1995The Outer Limits as Karen Ross
1994ER as Christy Larkin
1993Second Chances as Kate Benedict
1993When Pigs Fly as Kathleen
1993The X-Files as Kath McCready
1993Stratford Festival: Romeo and Juliet as Juliet
1991Cry in the Wild: The Taking of Peggy Ann as Peggy Ann Bradnick
1991The Chase as Gloria Whipple
1990The Nutcracker Prince as Clara (voice)
1990Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn as Becky
1990Law & Order as Megan Parnell
1990Deep Sleep as Shelley
1989Termini Station as Micheline Dushane
1989Champagne Charlie as Louise
1988A Time of Destiny as Irene
1988Inherit the Wind as Rachel Brown
1987Seasonal Differences as Dana
1987Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel as Anne Shirley
1987Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel as Anne Shirley
1987Stacking as Anna Mae Morgan
1986Anne auf Green Gables
1986Shattered: If Your Kid's on Drugs as Kim Wilson
1986Sin of Innocence as Jenny Colleran
1985Anne of Green Gables as Anne Shirley
1985Anne of Green Gables as Anne Shirley
1985Silver Bullet as Jane Coslaw
1985The Comedy Factory as Tina Jackson
1985The Ray Bradbury Theater as Aimee
1984Hockey Night as Cathy Yarrow
1984Murder, She Wrote as Lila Nolan
1984Domestic Life as Didi Crane
1983Boys and Girls as Margaret
1981The Olden Days Coat as Sal
1980The Mating Season as Laura McLain
1979Matt and Jenny as Jenny Tanner
1979The Littlest Hobo as Rose
1979The Littlest Hobo as Marti Kendall
1979The Facts of Life
1972ABC Afterschool Special as Dana Sherman
—Stealing the Sky as Marilyn