Megan Follows

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Megan Elizabeth Laura Diana Follows (born March 14, 1968) is a Canadian/American actress. She is known to international audiences for her role as Anne Shirley in the acclaimed 1985 Canadian television miniseries Anne of Green Gables and its two sequels. <p>Follows was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada to an acting family (sometimes referred to as "The Fighting Follows"). Her parents are noted Canadian theater actor and director Ted Follows and his first wife, actress Dawn Greenhalgh. Her siblings, Laurence, Edwina and Samantha Follows are also actors. Her first acting job came at age nine, when she landed a spot in a commercial. She was directed to make an impudent gesture out of a school bus window - like sticking out her tongue - but ended up making a rather obscene and adult gesture instead.<p>After a stint in the Canadian series "The Littlest Hobo", Follows was cast as Anne Shirley in the miniseries Anne of Green Gables, and subsequently appeared in the two sequels that followed. The...