[1] 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).

Weatherly was born on July 24, 1959, in San Antonio, Texas, and was raised in Sumter, South Carolina.

[2] She grew up alongside two brothers, Kurt and Michael; their father Albert was a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Air Force.

[5][6][7] 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.

[8] In 1994 she married Chip Harris, president of a biotech research company, and they have two children.