Amy Johnston with Gary Busey in The Buddy Holly Story
She played the rocker s girlfriend in the Gary Busey starrer and a woman with a thing for Vinnie Barbarino on Welcome Back, Kotter.
Amy Johnston, who portrayed Cindy Lou, the girlfriend of Gary Busey s character in
The Buddy Holly Story as the pioneering rock n roller is first starting out, has died. She was 66.
Johnston died March 17 at her home in West Fork, Arkansas, after a long battle with cancer, her brother
, Mark Suarez, announced.
Johnston made her onscreen debut in 1977 in a two-part episode of ABC s
Welcome Back, Kotter titled Barbarino in Love, in which she and John Travolta s character get together after the Sweathogs perform as the group Three Do s and a Don t in a talent competition.