[4] She found steady work in Canada, appearing in a few TV series such as Matt and Jenny, The Baxters, and The Littlest Hobo, in which she guest-starred with her entire family in a three-part episode.

The miniseries, wholly produced in Canada, became successful worldwide and remains the highest-rated drama in Canadian television history.

The plot is based on the true story of the abduction of Peggy Ann Bradnick by an ex-convict and ex-mental patient William Diller Hollenbaugh which took place in Shade Gap, Pennsylvania on May 11, 1966.

She also appeared in the hospital drama Open Heart[12] as a nurse fighting a physician of malpractice, and in Shania: A Life in Eight Albums, as Sharon Twain.

[14] In 2004, Follows was part of the ensemble cast of the Hallmark movie Plainsong, which included Aidan Quinn, Rachel Griffiths, and America Ferrera.

Also in 2012, she appeared as Alice Stewart in one episode of Longmire, and in the Starz series World Without End, playing Lady Maud.

In 2013, she was cast as Catherine de' Medici on Reign,[6] a historical drama series on The CW, based on the early life of Mary, Queen of Scots.

She co-starred with Corey Haim and Gary Busey in the 1985 film adaptation of Stephen King's novella, Silver Bullet.

[6] Her later film credits include 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.

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.

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

[4] The following year, she took on the role of Annie in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing which ran at Ottawa's National Arts Centre as a co-production between Soulpepper and NAC English Theatre.

Following this run, the play made its way to Toronto as part of Soulpepper's 2006 season at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts.

In 2007, she played the role of Marlene in the critically acclaimed summer production of Caryl Churchill's Top Girls with Soulpepper.

[citation needed] Soulpepper's 2008 season, marking the company's tenth anniversary signaled the continuation of Megan's prolific theatre career.

[22] In 1991, Follows married Christopher David Porter, a Canadian gaffer and photographer she met on the set of Deep Sleep.