Megan Follows
Megan Follows was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on March 14th, 1968 and is the Movie Actress. At the age of 56, Megan Follows biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Megan Elizabeth Follows (born March 14, 1968) is a Canadian actress.
Anne Shirley appears in Anne of Green Gables, a 1985 Canadian television miniseries, as well as two sequels.
Catherine de' Medici appeared in Reign's television series from 2013 to 2017.
Early life
Follows was born in Toronto, Ontario, and was the youngest of four children in an acting family. Her father, Ted Follows, was a Canadian theatre actor and producer, and her mother, Dawn Greenhalgh, is from Canada. Her parents were divorced later in life.
Her three siblings work in entertainment. Edwina, her elder sister, is a writer, while her brother Laurence and sister Samantha Follows (who is married to American actor Sean O'Bryan) are both actors.
Personal life
Followings married Christopher David Porter, a Canadian gaffer and photographer who appeared on the set of Deep Sleep in 1991. Lyla Anne Porter (born 1991) and Russell Porter (born 1994). In 1996, the couple wed. Followings, the pair were involved in a long-term relationship with actor Stuart Hughes, who died in about 2010.
Career
She began working in Bell Canada at the age of nine, landing a position in a commercial. She was supposed to make an offensive gesture out of a school bus window, like sticking out her tongue, but she wound up doing a rather vulgar adult gesture instead. She found steady work in Canada, appearing in a few television series, including Matt and Jenny, The Baxters, and The Littlest Hobo, in which she appeared with her entire family in a three-part series. She has appeared in the short films The Olden Days Coat (1981) and Boys and Girls (1983), the latter of which received an Academy Award for Best Short Subject.
Anne Shirley's breakthrough came when she was cast as Anne Shirley in the 1985 miniseries Anne of Green Gables (as well as its two sequels). Despite early worries that she would be too old for the role, writer Kevin Sullivan's "Anne" was a coveted role for over 3,000 young girls. The miniseries, which was primarily produced in Canada, became a hit around the world, and it remains today the highest-rated drama in Canadian television history.
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. Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning was not reprised in her fourth film, and Barbara Hershey took over the role.
Follows has appeared on both Canadian and American televisions. She appeared in "The Dwarf" episode of The Ray Bradbury Theater in 1989. Peggy Ann was in the titular role in 1991, alongside actors David Soul and David Morse in the made-for-television film Cry in the Wild. The plot is based on the true story of Peggy Ann Bradnick's kidnapping by ex-convict and ex-mental patient William Diller Hollenbaugh, which took place in Shade Gap, Pennsylvania, on May 11, 1966. On May 6, 1991, it appeared on NBC. Megan Porter Follows (as she was then known, under her married name) appeared in The Outer Limits episode "The Choice" with Thora Birch in 1995. She appeared in Hockey Night, a popular made-for-TV film in Canada, around the time she appeared in Anne of Green Gables. She starred Cathy, a teenage girl who competed for the first all-male team in hockey. Other leading roles in the period drama Under the Piano and Major Crime are among the Canadian television shows on television.
She appeared in Robson Arms, the Canadian ensemble drama, as one of the Robson Arms apartment complex's tenants in 2005. Shania Twain, a Canadian singer, appeared in the hospital drama Open Heart as a nurse fighting a physician of negligence, as well as in Shania: A Life in Eight Albums. Booky Makes Her Mark, Booky and the Intuitive Santa, and Booky's Crush were three of Bernice Thurman Hunter's "Booky" films, Booky Makes Her Mark, Booky and the Unknown Santa's booky.
Among her early American television appearances in The Facts of Life (as Jo Polniaczek's nephew in Episode 23 of Season 3 that was supposed as a backdoor pilot for a proposed spin-off) in 1982, and in the short-lived series Domestic Life as Martin Mull's daughter in 1984. She appeared in two television films, Sin of Innocence and Shattered... If Your Kid's On Drugs (both 1986). She appeared in the CBS television series Second Chances from 1993 to 1994. Since 2000, she has appeared on Law & Order, ER, The X-Files, CSI: The X-Files, Miami, Cold Case, and Lie to Me, among other things. She has appeared in several episodes as Ty Borden's mother in the Canadian television series Heartland. She has also ruled Heartland on a regular basis.
Followings appeared in 2004 as one of the cast of the Hallmark film Plainsong, which included Aidan Quinn, Rachel Griffiths, and America Ferrera. In 2009, she appeared on Brothers and Sisters as a guest star. She appeared on House as a guest speaker in 2011. She appeared in Hollywood Heights in 2012. In 2012, she appeared as Alice Stewart in one episode of Longmire and as Lady Maud in the Starz series World Without End. Catherine de' Medici on Reign, a historical drama drama on The CW based on Mary, Queen of Scots' early life, was portrayed in 2013. The series ran for four seasons.
Followings, a psychological web series created by marblemedia, was announced in 2018. She also appears in a recurring role as the mother of the titular character on Wynonna Earp.
Followings will produce the psychological thriller film Maternal, which is her debut as a film producer, in 2020. Amybeth McNulty, the film's lead actress, has been attached to it.
Follows has appeared in a number of feature films. In the 1985 film version of Stephen King's novella, Silver Bullet, she costarred with Corey Haim and Gary Busey. Clara was the voice of Clara from the cartoon Christmas film The Nutcracker Prince in 1990. Christmas Child, A Foreign Affair (2003; released on DVD as Two Brothers and a Bride), and a cameo in Laurie Lynd's Breakfast with Scot are among her later films. In the film I Am Number Four (2011), she had a brief cameo as a grocery store clerk.
Despite the fact that Follows' parents' career was anchored in the theatre, she did not appear in many stage productions until the 2000s. In 1988 in Toronto, she appeared in The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, her first stage appearance. Juliet was born in 1992 and she reprised her role in Romeo and Juliet's production in Los Angeles. A Doll's House (Minneapolis' Guthrie Theater), Othello (Edmonton's Citadel Theatre and Ottawa's National Arts Centre), Uncle Vanya (Atlantic Theatre Festival), and Nol Coward's Hay Fever, in which she appeared with her siblings and father, among other notable stage performances include A Doll's House (Minneapolis' Guthrie Theatre), and Noll's Hay Fever, which was directed by her father's
Follows has performed as a regular on stage in recent years as a member of the Toronto-based Soulpepper Theatre Company. Shepard's primary role in May was in their production of Fool for Love in 2005. She continued to play Annie in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing, a co-production between Soulpepper and NAC English Theatre in Ottawa. Following this run, the performance appeared in Toronto as part of Soulpepper's 2006 season at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts. In 2007, she appeared as Marlene in the summer production of Caryl Churchill's Top Girls, a second time with the Soulpepper Theatre Company.
Megan's 2008 season, which came as a company's tenth anniversary, signaled the company's ten-year anniversary, signaling the company's prolific theatre career. She appeared in two productions during the past season. The first film, Mother, was Marsha Norman's 'night, Mother,' in which she co-starred with her real-life mother, Dawn Greenhalgh. Soulpepper's second appearance of Caryl Churchill's Top Girls, which was critically acclaimed in 2007.
She appeared in Mirvish Productions' revival of Churchill's Cloud 9 in 2010. In 2011, she returned to the stage to appear in Melissa James Gibson's This at the Vancouver Playhouse directed by Amiel Gladstone, and in 2012, she appeared in the lead role of "Penelope" at the Nightwood Theatre's production of The Penelopiad.