- She and her family lived in an internment camp in China as Japanese prisoners of war during World War 2.
- Mother with ex-husband actor and director Ted Follows of actresses Megan Follows and Samantha Follows, writer Edwina Follows and producer Laurence Follows.
- Appeared with her real-life daughter Megan Follows in the TV-movie Anne of Green Gables (1985) as the stern headmistress, Mrs Cadbury, of the orphanage where Anne is brought to at the beginning of the film.
- Dawn has 6 grandchildren, 3 girls and 3 boys.
- Mother-in-law of actor Sean O'Bryan (Samantha's husband) and former mother-in-law of Christopher Porter (Megan's ex husband).
- She played the older version of her daughter Megan Follows's character in Interview with a Werewolf (1999).
- 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 (Samantha's daughters), Lyla Porter-Follows and Russell Porter-Follows (Megan's children).
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