Megan Follows

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.

She Came Back
2025
Director

Heritage Minutes: Mary Riter Hamilton
2024
Mary Riter Hamilton

Marry Me This Christmas
2020
Director

Lie Exposed
2020
Diane

Christmas Around the Corner
2018
Director

Home for the Holidays
2017
Megan Byrne

Pirate's Passage
2015
Meg O’Leary (voice)

Hard Drive
2014
Barbara

Flight of the Butterflies
2012
Narrator

I Am Number Four
2011
Supermarket Cashier (uncredited)

Booky's Crush
2009
Francie Thomson

Breakfast with Scot
2007
Barbara Warren

Booky & the Secret Santa
2007
Francie Thomson

The Great Polar Bear Adventure
2006
Narrator (voice)

L.M. Montgomery's Island
2006
Anne Shirley (archive footage)

Kevin Sullivan's Classic
2006
Self - Anne Shirley

Booky Makes Her Mark
2006
Francie Thomson

Shania A Life in Eight Albums
2005
Sharon Twain

Open Heart
2004
Sherry Cardinal

Christmas Child
2004
Meg Davenport

Plainsong
2004
Ella Guthrie

A Foreign Affair
2003
Lena

The Stork Derby
2002
Kate Harrington

Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story
2000
Anne Shirley

What Katy Did
1999
Cousin Helen

American Prophet: The Story of Joseph Smith
1999
Emma Smith (voice)

Reluctant Angel
1997
Lisa / Cheryl

Major Crime
1997
Joanie Wells

Under The Piano
1996
Rosetta Basilio

When Pigs Fly
1993
Kathleen

Stratford Festival: Romeo and Juliet
1993
Juliet

Cry in the Wild: The Taking of Peggy Ann
1991
Peggy Ann Bradnick

The Chase
1991
Gloria Whipple

The Nutcracker Prince
1990
Clara (voice)

Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
1990
Becky

Deep Sleep
1990
Shelley

Champagne Charlie
1989
Louise

Termini Station
1989
Micheline Dushane

A Time of Destiny
1988
Irene

Inherit the Wind
1988
Rachel Brown

Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel
1987
Anne Shirley

Seasonal Differences
1987
Dana

Stacking
1987
Anna Mae Morgan

Sin of Innocence
1986
Jenny Colleran

Shattered: If Your Kid's on Drugs
1986
Kim Wilson

Anne of Green Gables
1985
Anne Shirley

Silver Bullet
1985
Jane Coslaw

Hockey Night
1984
Cathy Yarrow

Boys and Girls
1983
Margaret

The Olden Days Coat
1981
Sal

The Mating Season
1980
Laura McLain