Mother with ex-husband actor and director Ted Follows of actresses Megan Follows and Samantha Follows , writer Edwina Follows and producer Laurence Follows .Dawn has 6 grandchildren, 3 girls and 3 boys.Mother-In-Law of actor Sean O'Bryan and former mother-in-law of Christopher Porter .She and her family lived in an internment camp in China as Japanese prisoners of war during World War 2.Appeared with her real-life daughter Megan Follows in the TV-movie Anne of Green Gables (1985) (TV) as the stern headmistress, Mrs Cadbury, of the orphanage where Anne is brought to at the beginning of the film.Performed at Canada's Stratford Festival (1995). Was standby to actress Martha Henry for the role of Mary Tyrone in the Stratford Festival production of "Long Day's Journey Into Night".Grandmother of Mckayla and Rowan O'Bryan and Lyla Anne and Russell Porter.