Megan Follows
Acting
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.
Born: March 14, 1968
Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Known For
Major Crime
Undercover police work to bring a pedophile to justice.
Anne of Green Gables
When Anne Shirley arrives at the Cuthbert’s Farm on Prince Edward Island, she is a precocious, romantic child, desperate to be loved, and highly sensitive about her red hair and homely looks. Anne moves from one mishap to another as her wild imagination and far-fetched antics combine to constantly bring trouble upon her shoulders.
Home for the Holidays
"Home for the Holidays" is the third stand-alone two hour Christmas special of the "Murdoch Mysteries" that first aired on December 18, 2017 on CBC, followed by a second airing on December 25, 2017 in Canada. Murdoch and Ogden travel to Victoria, B.C. to visit Murdoch’s brother, RCMP officer Jasper Linney. There, they investigate a murder connected to an archaeologist Megan Byrne who has uncovered an ancient Indigenous settlement, leading to a trek through the rugged beauty of British Columbia and encounters with the Songhees and Haida nations. Meanwhile, the Brackenreids are offered a surefire investment opportunity that may not be all it seems. At the Station House, Crabtree and Higgins prepare for a ski-chalet holiday in Vermont with their girlfriends Nina and Ruth, but learn it may be more dangerous than expected.
House
Dr. Gregory House, a drug-addicted, unconventional, misanthropic medical genius, leads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton–Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey.
Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel
Anne Shirley, now a schoolteacher, has begun writing stories and collecting rejection slips. She acts as Diana's maid of honor, develops a relationship with Gilbert Blythe, and finds herself at Kingsport Ladies' College. But while Anne enjoys the battles and the friends she makes, she finds herself returning to Avonlea.
Hudson & Rex
Detective Charlie Hudson teams up with what he calls his "highly trained law enforcement animal" German Shepherd dog named Rex who he prefers to team up with because he doesn't talk his ear off.
The X-Files
The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.
Heartland
Life is hard on the Flemings' ranch in the Alberta foothills where abused or neglected horses find refuge with a kind, hard-working family. Debts abound and the bank is about to foreclose. Can they keep the ranch running?
Family Law
Family attorney and mom, Lynn Holt, has had to scramble to keep her family and her law firm together, since her husband left her and took most of their joint law practice with him. Although the attorneys are carting plenty of life's baggage, they're all determined to make the most of this unexpected second chance—and make each month's mortgage payment.
Anne of Green Gables
At the turn of the century on Prince Edward Island, Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla decide to take on an orphan boy as help for their farm. But they get an unexpected jolt when they're mistakenly sent a girl instead: Anne Shirley.
Filmography
as Janet
as Marilyn
as Fern
as Mary Riter Hamilton
as Senator Nora Evers
as Diane
as Edith Mooreland
as Detective Sidney Scott
as Megan Byrne
as Michelle Gibson
as Meg O’Leary (voice)
as Barbara
as Catherine de' Medici
as Narrator
as Maud
as Alice Stewart
as Supermarket Cashier (uncredited)
as Warden Barton
as Francie Thomson
as Lorraine Burch
as Reanne Chrisman
as Francie Thomson
as Barbara Warren
as Lily Borden
as Maggie Stephens
as Francie Thomson
as Narrator (voice)
as Self - Anne Shirley
as Anne Shirley (archive footage)
as Sharon Twain
as Janice Keneally
as Jennifer Williams
as Meg Davenport
as Sherry Cardinal
as Ella Guthrie
as Lena
as Maura (2005)
as Denise
as Chloe Grand
as Kate Harrington
as Beth
as Science Teacher
as Beth Darian
as Dana's Doctor
as Anne Shirley
as Anne Shirley Blythe
as Emma Smith (voice)
as Nancy Quinn
as Cousin Helen
as Joanie Wells
as Lisa / Cheryl
as Rosetta Basilio
as Karen Ross
as Christy Larkin
as Kate Benedict
as Kathleen
as Kath McCready
as Juliet
as Peggy Ann Bradnick
as Gloria Whipple
as Clara (voice)
as Megan Parnell
as Shelley
as Micheline Dushane
as Louise
as Irene
as Rachel Brown
as Dana
as Anne Shirley
as Anne Shirley
as Anna Mae Morgan
as Kim Wilson
as Jenny Colleran
as Anne Shirley
as Anne Shirley
as Jane Coslaw
as Tina Jackson
as Aimee
as Cathy Yarrow
as Lila Nolan
as Didi Crane
as Margaret
as Sal
as Laura McLain
as Jenny Tanner
as Marti Kendall
as Rose
as Dana Sherman