Megan Follows Biography, Age, Career, Lesbian, Net worth and Interview

Megan Follows Biography

Megan Follows, born Megan Elizabeth Laura Diana Follows, is a Canadian actress best known for her portrayal of Anne Shirley in the 1985 Canadian television miniseries “Anne of Green Gables” and its two sequels. Apart from being an actress, she has served as a spokeswoman for the relief organization World Vision Canada. She traveled to both Rwanda and Tanzania as a spokeswoman and a photographer.

She also participated in the 2005 benefit concert Canada for Asia held to support the relief efforts for Asia after the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. Along with this, she is also a member of the Canadian charity Artists Against Racism. 

Megan Follows Age

She was born on the 14th of March 1968 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. As of 2018, she is 50 years old.

Megan Follows Family

She is the youngest of four children born to Canadian theatre actor and director Ted Follows, and her mother, a Canadian actress Dawn Greenhalgh. Her elder sister Edwina is a writer, while her brother Laurence and sister Samantha Follows are also actors.

Megan Follows Husband / Megan Follows Married

She married Christopher David Porter, a Canadian gaffer and photographer in 1991. They met the set of “Deep Sleep”. In 1996, the couple got divorced. Since then, she had a long-term relationship with actor Stuart Hughes, but they broke up somewhere around 2010.

Megan Follows Children

She has two children, whom she bore with Christopher, Lyla Anne Porter, born in 1991, and Russell Porter, born in 1994.

Megan Follows Career

She first acted at age nine in a commercial for Bell Canada. She found steady work in Canada, appearing in a few TV series such as “Matt and Jenny”, “The Baxters”, and “The Littlest Hobo”, with her entire family in a three-part episode. She also starred in the short film “Boys and Girls” (1983), which won an Academy Award. She was cast as Anne Shirley in the 1985 miniseries “Anne of Green Gables” which turned out to be her breakthrough.

Her performances 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 installment, “Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story”. She was replaced by Barbara Hershey in the next sequel, “Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning”, however, she is seen in archive footage in the beginning when Anne is reminiscing.

She has made numerous television appearances in both Canadian and US sets. Among her earliest American television appearances were roles in  “The Facts of Life”. Since 2000, she has appeared on “Law & Order”,  “ER”, “The X-Files”, “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation”, “CSI: Miami”, “Cold Case”, and “Lie to Me”, and many others. In 2018, it was announced that Megan would be the lead director on “Held”, a psychological web series to be produced by Marblemedia.

She has appeared in a number of feature films like Silver Bullet. She provided the voice of Clara from the cartoon Christmas film “The Nutcracker Prince” in 1990. Her most recent film credits include “Christmas Child”, “A Foreign Affair”, and a cameo in “Breakfast with Scot”. She also had a brief uncredited cameo as a grocery store clerk in the movie I Am Number Four in 2011.

Along with her career in film and TV, she has also done some stage productions. Her first stage credit was in “The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds”, in which she starred alongside her mother, Dawn, and her sister, Samantha, in 1988 in Toronto. She, however, did not appear in many stage productions until the 2000s even though her parents’ careers were mostly in theatre.

Her notable stage credits include “A Doll’s House” at the Minneapolis’ Guthrie Theater, “Othello” at the Edmonton’s Citadel Theatre and Ottawa’s National Arts Centre, “Uncle Vanya” in the Atlantic Theatre Festival, and Noël Coward’s “Hay Fever”, in which she appeared with her siblings, and was directed by her father.

Megan Follows Net Worth

Over the years of her career, she has accumulated a total net worth estimate of $2 million.

Megan Follows Christian

She was born and raised with Christian beliefs.

Megan Follows And Jonathan Crombie

Jonathan Crombie co-starred with Megan on the TV show “Anne Of Green Gables”. Jonathan died on the 15th of April 2015 of a Hemorrhagic stroke.

Megan Follows Lesbian

She has taken roles that require her to portray lesbian characters but in truth. she is straight. Her portrayals of these characters were good enough to earn her great praise from lesbians in many places.

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Megan Follows Interview

I’ve had a chance to watch the short, and I liked it quite a bit. It’s dreamy and interesting. What attracted you to the project in the first place?

Really, my friendship with Cassandra. She had asked me to participate and it was a little bit of a leap of faith in terms of what it was going to be. As you can see it’s somewhat conceptual, based on the poem. The poem is obviously very beautiful. I had known Cassandra through work. She had done a documentary on a theater project I had been involved in.

Where you familiar with the Elizabeth Bishop poem it is based on?

MNot the whole poem, by any means. I certainly knew of Elizabeth Bishop and bits of pieces of her work. It was more through Cassandra’s interest in this piece and wanting to explore it that I became aware of it. It’s also kind of amazing because it is a very personal interpretation for Cassandra.

Because it is such a dreamy, non-formed piece, how did you get yourself in the mindset of that character, E? What interested you about her journey?

You know, it was somewhat guerilla filmmaking for sure. What is interesting is when we shot in the club, the club was live and it was just really a club that was happening. There were some signs that said there might be a film crew walking around and we used a very subtle camera. So we just went into that club and started to dance.

It was pretty funny because it was very, very loud in there. And we couldn’t hear each other over the sound of the music. We had to devise hand signals. So often times my character was dancing with her eyes closed. I would no idea if the camera was still rolling or if they’d moved on to a different shot. A couple of times I got pretty intimate with people who were dancing who had nothing to do with the film. And then I’d be like, “Oh, I’m sorry, I guess we’re not rolling. If you could please get off of me, I have to go find my crew.” [Laughs] So, we had some fun.

Well, some people in that club certainly had a good night then.

Yes, they did.

This is also, of course, a lesbian role. How did that play into, if at all, how you prepared for and approached the role?

MIt seems like there is something holding the woman back. She is inhibited and not fully realizing something of herself. I think that is universal, or at least something I can identify with. Trying to figure out who you are and reaching out for intimacy. It’s an interesting piece because obviously for something that is very intimate – like a sexual encounter in a bathroom – it is also with a stranger so it is complex. She is searching for intimacy and connectedness and doing it in a way where that’s not actually what is happening. It is and it isn’t.

It seems to be in a state of disease with herself, trying to find something and not able to find it yet. And being alone, the piece is about that and the need for connection. I am curious for you, what did you get from the piece?

Yeah, kind of similar. She is obviously searching. She feels held back in certain ways – looking for a connection that she hasn’t had before or maybe had in the past. It is interesting, there’s not very much dialogue. I’ll have to watch it again. It was beautiful, really beautifully shot.

MYeah, the cinematographers did a beautiful job. We shot all throughout the night. We’d start at 8 at night wandering the streets in Toronto and in this club until 4 in the morning and then going down to the lake. So it was a journey we all went on.
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