# Whatever Happened to Actress Amanda Peterson? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 11, 2005, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-actress-amanda-peterson/307896 "2005-06-11T23:07:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2005, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-actress-amanda-peterson/307896/1 "2005-06-11T23:07:09Z")
She played the popular cheerleader in 1987’s “Can’t Buy Me Love.” According to IMDB, she hasn’t worked since 1995. Anyone have any better info? ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2005, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-actress-amanda-peterson/307896/2 "2005-06-11T23:16:40Z")
Married with two kids, according to this site: [http://www.theactionteam.org/archives/2003\_10\_26\_archive.html](http://www.theactionteam.org/archives/2003_10_26_archive.html) ---
**Author:** ![guest1971](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/aeb1de/32.png) [@guest1971](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guest1971)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-actress-amanda-peterson/307896/3 "2015-09-20T01:02:47Z")
Edited ---
**Author:** ![Claverhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Claverhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claverhouse)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-actress-amanda-peterson/307896/4 "2015-09-20T01:31:52Z")
I rather think much of that is private information of which my knowledge constitutes intrusion. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Nylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/77aa72/32.png) [@Mr.Nylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Nylock)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-actress-amanda-peterson/307896/5 "2015-09-20T02:05:50Z")
> [@guest1971](#): > > Edited This post is not creepy at all, not even a little bit, no sir. ---
**Author:** ![jimbuff314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c57346/32.png) [@jimbuff314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimbuff314)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-actress-amanda-peterson/307896/6 "2015-09-20T02:18:00Z")
And quoting the entirety of it for a one-liner sure as hell wasn’t either. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-actress-amanda-peterson/307896/7 "2015-09-20T02:21:46Z")
Maybe guest1971 is Amanda Peterson, planting false information as part of an elaborate faking of her own death for insurance purposes. ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-actress-amanda-peterson/307896/8 "2015-09-20T02:22:59Z")
Initially i thought the timeline was some sort of prediction from 2005 and i was thoroughly freaked out. Then i looked more closely and realized it’s really an obsessive recounting of her life. … i am still a little weirded out. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Nylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/77aa72/32.png) [@Mr.Nylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Nylock)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-actress-amanda-peterson/307896/9 "2015-09-20T02:24:55Z")
> [@jimbuff314](#): > > And quoting the entirety of it for a one-liner sure as hell wasn’t either. I didn’t think of it that way, perhaps it’s a pot calling the kettle black situation. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Nylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/77aa72/32.png) [@Mr.Nylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Nylock)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-actress-amanda-peterson/307896/10 "2015-09-20T02:51:16Z")
On a more serious note, **guest1971** appears to have only joined the board to talk about Amanda Peterson. Amanda Peterson was born in 1971, and the only other time **guest1971** has posted was to write the same exact thing in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=18700366#post18700366) about Amanda Peterson. Not to mention the join date is shortly after her death. So, **guest1971** , what is the deal - if you don’t mind me asking? ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-actress-amanda-peterson/307896/11 "2015-09-20T03:12:26Z")
What a sad life. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-actress-amanda-peterson/307896/12 "2015-09-20T06:19:48Z")
> [@guest1971](#): > > Edited Don’t post anything like this again or you will be banned. This is not only spam, it’s a huge privacy issue as well. ---
**Author:** ![Spud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spud/32/347_2.png) [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-actress-amanda-peterson/307896/13 "2015-09-20T12:29:45Z")
For those of us who missed it… what kind of info was posted that was so offensive? No, I don’t want the details of the info, but did they post home phone numbers, address, kid’s addresses, etc.? I’m just trying to figure out what kind of stalkerish info there could have been. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Nylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/77aa72/32.png) [@Mr.Nylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Nylock)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-actress-amanda-peterson/307896/14 "2015-09-20T12:37:00Z")
> [@Spud](#): > > For those of us who missed it… what kind of info was posted that was so offensive? No, I don’t want the details of the info, but did they post home phone numbers, address, kid’s addresses, etc.? I’m just trying to figure out what kind of stalkerish info there could have been. It was a very detailed account of her life, chronologically organized with dates starting from her early childhood. IIRC it had addresses but no phone numbers, and was at least 50 lines. It was highly unusual and rightfully deleted IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-actress-amanda-peterson/307896/15 "2015-09-20T13:56:10Z")
> [@Spud](#): > > For those of us who missed it… what kind of info was posted that was so offensive? No, I don’t want the details of the info, but did they post home phone numbers, address, kid’s addresses, etc.? I’m just trying to figure out what kind of stalkerish info there could have been. It was a very detailed timeline of her life going back many, many years. It included very specific medical and legal information. It also included exact addresses and the dates she lived at those addresses. Very creepy. I’m glad it was deleted. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-actress-amanda-peterson/307896/16 "2015-09-20T15:51:32Z")
> [@Honey](#): > > It was a very detailed timeline of her life going back many, many years. It included very specific medical and legal information. It also included exact addresses and the dates she lived at those addresses. > > Very creepy. I’m glad it was deleted. Me too. I reported it.