Shawn Weatherly is an American actress and beauty queen who won the titles of Miss USA 1980 and Miss Universe 1980. She starred as Cadet Karen Adams in the film Police Academy 3: Back in Training (1986) and as Jill Riley in the first season of the TV series Baywatch (1989–1990).

Early life

Weatherly was born in San Antonio, Texas, but raised in Sumter, South Carolina. She grew up alongside two brothers, Kurt and Michael; their father Albert was a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Air Force. (Joanne, the Weatherly siblings' mother, died of cancer in 1968.) Shawn attended Clemson University as a nursing major, and was also a member of the Delta Delta Delta sorority.

Career

Weatherly is best known for her work as Jill Riley on the television show Baywatch and for the early reality show Oceanquest, which had her swimming with sharks. She played a small part on a Dukes of Hazzard episode "Coy vs. Vance," and she appeared in other shows such as The A-Team, T. J. Hooker and Happy Days. She also had a main role in the 1986 comedy film Police Academy 3: Back in Training. In 2014, she was in the horror-comedy film Love in the Time of Monsters.

Personal life

In 1994 she married Chip Harris, president of a biotech research company, and they have two children. Previously she had relationships with Lee Majors and Dwight Clark.

Filmography