After two years of teaching at the Avonlea schoolhouse, eighteen-year-old Anne makes the decision to leave Avonlea to accept a teaching position at Kingsport Ladies’ College in New Brunswick.

She rejects a marriage proposal from childhood friend Gilbert Blythe, believing that she has not yet experienced true love. She becomes infatuated with Morgan Harris, the father of one of her students, but realizes he may not be the one after all.

When she learns of Gilbert becoming gravely ill, she begins to accept the fact that she cares deeply for him.

Megan Follows was just 16 years old when she was chosen to play Anne, a role that earned her a 1986 and a 1988 Gemini Award for Best Performance by a Lead Actress.

Megan Follows' many other credits include lead roles in the feature films Reluctant Angel, Deep Sleep and Silver Bullet. Her numerous television credits include guest appearances on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Cold Case; television movies Under the Piano, the Emmy Award-winning Inherit the Wind with Kirk Douglas, Clare's Wish and The Great Detective; and a lead role in the mini-series Champagne Charlie.

Follows many stage credits include Stratford Festival's Romeo and Juliet and Amadeus as well as Atlantic Theatre Festival's Uncle Vanya and A Doll's House. She had the leading role of May in a production of Fool for Love by Sam Shepard, mounted at Toronto’s Soulpepper Theatre Company where she is still a member of the company.

Follows is married to fellow Canadian actor Stuart Hughes, and she divides her time between residences in Los Angeles and Toronto.

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