She won the “Miss South Carolina” pageant in 1979.
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She won the “Miss USA” pageant in 1980 and the “Miss World” (sometimes called “Miss Universe”) pageant in 1980 held in Seoul, South Korea where she became the 5th person from the U.S. to ever win that honor.
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Shawn graduated from Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina in 1982.
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Shawn’s first professional acting appearance was playing a character named “Billie Ann” on 4 February 1983 in an episode of the weekly TV Comedy series “The Dukes of Hazzard”.
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Here very first year in Acting in 1983 she appeared in 8 different episodes of 5 different TV series’.
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She performed in 4 different episodes of the weekly TV Action, Crime, Drama “T. J. Hooker” starring “William Shatner” and “Heather Locklear” in 1983.
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In 1984 she performed for the first time on the BIG Screen in a small roll where she played “Blake's Girl in Bed” in the Comedy Film “Cannonball Run II” starring “Burt Reynolds”, “Dom DeLuise”, “Sammy Davis Jr.” & “Frank Sinatra who played “Blake”.
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Possibly her biggest break was when she played the role of Beautiful “Jill Riley” from 1989 to 1990 in the weekly TV Actin, Drama “Baywatch” starring “David Hasselhoff” and “Parker Stevenson”.
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