Actor was 16 when she starred opposite Patrick Dempsey as an attractive high school student who agrees to feign a relationship with a local ‘nerd’ for $1,000Actor Amanda Peterson, briefly a star name in Hollywood following her turn as an Arizona cheerleader in the 1980s romantic comedy Can’t Buy Me Love, has died at the age of 43.The twice-married mother of two was found alone at her home, an apartment complex in Greeley, Colorado, on 5 July.