<Tr> <Th> Spouse (s) </Th> <Td> Christopher Porter (m . 1991--1996) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Children </Th> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <P> Megan Elizabeth Laura Diana Follows (born March 14, 1968) is a Canadian actress . She is known for her role as Anne Shirley in the 1985 Canadian television miniseries Anne of Green Gables and its two sequels . From 2013 to 2017, she starred as Catherine de' Medici in the television series Reign . </P> <P> Follows was born in Toronto, Ontario, the youngest of four children, in an acting family . Her father was Canadian theatre actor and director Ted Follows, and her mother is Canadian actress Dawn Greenhalgh; her parents later divorced . </P>

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