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.

Filmography

• Little House on the Prairie — Grandma (uncredited)
• 2026Revel — Diane Dean, Executive Producer
• 2025She Came Back — Janet, Director
• 2025Stealing the Sky — Marilyn, Director, Executive Producer
• 2024Heritage Minutes: Mary Riter Hamilton — Mary Riter Hamilton
• My Dead Mom — Fern
• Rabbit Hole — Senator Nora Evers
• The Republic of Sarah — Director
• 2020Lie Exposed — Diane
• 2020Marry Me This Christmas — Director
• October Faction — Edith Mooreland, Director
• Hudson & Rex — Detective Sidney Scott
• When Hope Calls — Director
• Charmed — Director
• 2018Christmas Around the Corner — Director
• 2017Home for the Holidays — Megan Byrne
• Wynonna Earp — Michelle Gibson
• 2015Pirate's Passage — Meg O’Leary (voice)
• 2014Hard Drive — Barbara
• Anne auf Green Gables 3 - Das Leben geht weiter
• Reign — Catherine de' Medici, Director
• 2012Flight of the Butterflies — Narrator
• Hollywood Heights — Beth Bridges
• Longmire — Alice Stewart
• 2012Where Are the Dolls — Elizabeth / Narrator
• World Without End — Maud
• 2011I Am Number Four — Supermarket Cashier (uncredited)
• Republic of Doyle — Warden Barton
• 2009Booky's Crush — Francie Thomson
• Lie to Me — Lorraine Burch
• Raising the Bar — Reanne Chrisman
• 2007Booky & the Secret Santa — Francie Thomson
• 2007Breakfast with Scot — Barbara Warren
• Heartland — Lily Borden, Director
• 2006Booky Makes Her Mark — Francie Thomson
• Brothers and Sisters — Maggie Stephens
• 2006L.M. Montgomery's Island — Anne Shirley (archive footage)
• 2006The Great Polar Bear Adventure — Narrator (voice)
• Robson Arms — Janice Keneally
• 2005Shania A Life in Eight Albums — Sharon Twain
• 2004Christmas Child — Meg Davenport
• House — Jennifer Williams
• 2004Open Heart — Sherry Cardinal
• 2004Plainsong — Ella Guthrie
• 2003A Foreign Affair — Lena
• Cold Case — Maura (2005)
• Threat Matrix — Denise
• CSI: Miami — Chloe Grand
• 2002The Stork Derby — Kate Harrington
• Crossing Jordan — Beth
• The Division — Science Teacher
• 2000Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story — Anne Shirley
• Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story — Anne Shirley Blythe
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — Beth Darian
• Strong Medicine — Dana's Doctor
• 1999American Prophet: The Story of Joseph Smith — Emma Smith (voice)
• Big Wolf on Campus — Violet Thorne
• Family Law — Nancy Quinn
• 1999What Katy Did — Cousin Helen
• 1997Major Crime — Joanie Wells
• 1997Reluctant Angel — Lisa / Cheryl
• 1996Under The Piano — Rosetta Basilio
• The Outer Limits — Karen Ross
• ER — Christy Larkin
• Second Chances — Kate Benedict
• 1993Stratford Festival: Romeo and Juliet — Juliet
• The X-Files — Kath McCready
• 1993When Pigs Fly — Kathleen
• 1991Cry in the Wild: The Taking of Peggy Ann — Peggy Ann Bradnick
• Heritage Minutes — Mary Riter Hamilton
• 1991The Chase — Gloria Whipple
• The Hidden Room — Deanna Matthews
• 1990Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn — Becky
• 1990Deep Sleep — Shelley
• Law & Order — Megan Parnell
• 1990The Nutcracker Prince — Clara (voice)
• 1989Champagne Charlie — Louise
• 1989Termini Station — Micheline Dushane
• 1988A Time of Destiny — Irene
• 1988Inherit the Wind — Rachel Brown
• 1987Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel — Anne Shirley
• Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel — Anne Shirley
• 1987Seasonal Differences — Dana
• 1987Stacking — Anna Mae Morgan
• Anne of Green Gables
• 1986Shattered: If Your Kid's on Drugs — Kim Wilson
• 1986Sin of Innocence — Jenny Colleran
• 1985Anne of Green Gables — Anne Shirley
• Anne of Green Gables — Anne Shirley
• 1985Silver Bullet — Jane Coslaw
• The Comedy Factory — Tina Jackson
• The Ray Bradbury Theater — Aimee
• Domestic Life — Didi Crane
• 1984Hockey Night — Cathy Yarrow
• Murder, She Wrote — Lila Nolan
• 1983Boys and Girls — Margaret
• American Playhouse — Anna Mae Morgan
• 1981The Olden Days Coat — Sal
• 1980The Mating Season — Laura McLain
• Matt and Jenny — Jenny Tanner
• The Facts of Life
• The Littlest Hobo — Rose, Marti Kendall
• ABC Afterschool Special — Dana Sherman
• The Way Home — Tessa

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 2006Kevin Sullivan's Classic — Self - Anne Shirley