Lisa Blount

Lisa Blount
Born	Lisa Suzanne Blount July 1, 1957 Fayetteville, Arkansas, U.S.
Died	October 25, 2010(2010-10-25) (aged 53) Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S.
Alma mater	University of Arkansas at Little Rock Valdosta State University San Francisco State University
Occupation(s)	Actress, producer
Years active	1977–2010
Spouses	Christopher Tufty (m. 1982; div. 1998?) Ray McKinnon ​ (m. 1998)​
Awards	Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film 2001 The Accountant

Lisa Suzanne Blount (July 1, 1957 – October 25, 2010) was an American actress and film producer. She was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year for her performance in An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), and later won an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for producing The Accountant (2001).

Early life

Blount was born in Fayetteville, Arkansas, to Margaret Louise Martin and Glen Roscoe Blount, and was raised in Jacksonville, Arkansas. She attended Jacksonville High School, but dropped out before graduating. She nonetheless studied theatre at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and Valdosta State University in Georgia.

Career

After several small television roles and in films like September 30, 1955 and Dead & Buried, Blount received a Golden Globe nomination for New Star of the Year for her performance as Lynette Pomeroy, in An Officer and a Gentleman (1982).

She subsequently appeared in several "scream queen" horror film roles, including What Waits Below (1984, dir. Don Sharp), Cut and Run (1985, dir. Ruggero Deodato), Nightflyers (1987, dir. and most notably) John Carpenter's 1987 cult classic Prince of Darkness. Another role was that of Jim Profit's stepmother Bobbi Stakowski in the television series Profit. She appeared in season two of Moonlighting in the episode "Sleep Talkin' Guy" (1986).

Blount returned to college in 1986, this time at San Francisco State University (SFSU), where she completed her degree in Theater Arts and spent the 1986/1987 academic year competing on SFSU's Forensics (Speech and Debate) Team. In the fall of 1987, she was cast as the female lead in the American Conservatory Theater's revival of the musical Hair.

Blount later became a producer, and with her husband Ray McKinnon, won the Academy Award in 2001 for best live action short film for the film The Accountant. That film also credits her as wardrobe mistress. Blount produced and acted in Chrystal, which starred Billy Bob Thornton and was directed by McKinnon

Her last acting role was in the film Randy and the Mob, which she also produced and was directed by McKinnon.

Death

Blount was found dead in her home in Little Rock, Arkansas by her mother on October 25, 2010. The coroner told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that Blount appeared to have died two days earlier. No foul play was suspected, according to the Pulaski County coroner.

Although the coroner did not release an official cause of death, Blount's mother told RadarOnline.com that her daughter had had idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), in which low levels of platelets keep blood from clotting and lead to bleeding and bruising. "I think that might have been part of the problem when she passed away because when I found her she had a purple look on her neck that looked like blood on the surface".

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1977	September 30, 1955	Billie Jean Turner
1979	The Swap	Vivan Buck
1981	Dead & Buried	Lisa
1982	An Officer and a Gentleman	Lynette Pomeroy	Nominated—Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year
1984	What Waits Below	Leslie Peterson
1985	Radioactive Dreams	Miles Archer
	Cut and Run	Fran Hudson
	Cease Fire	Paula Murphy
1987	Nightflyers	Audrey
	Prince of Darkness	Catherine Danforth
1988	South of Reno	Anette Clark
1989	Out Cold	Phyllis
	Great Balls of Fire!	Lois Brown
	Blind Fury	Annie Winchester
1991	Femme Fatale	Jenny Purge
1993	Needful Things	Cora Rusk	Uncredited
1994	Stalked	Janie
	Murder Between Friends	Janet Myers
	Judicial Consent	Theresa Lewis
1996	Box of Moonlight	Purlene Dupre
1999	If... Dog... Rabbit...	Sarah Cooper-Toole
2001	The Accountant	—	Short film; executive producer only Academy Award for Best Short Film, Live Action (shared with Ray McKinnon) Spirit of Slamdance Award (shared with Ray McKinnon & Walton Goggins)
2002	A.K.A. Birdseye	Vicky Sharpless
2005	Chrystal	Chrystal	Also producer Best Actress Award – Stockholm Film Festival
2007	Randy and the Mob	Charlotte Pearson	Also producer

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1977	The Gong Show	Appears on The Gong Show	Episode: Same episode with Pee Wee Herman
1982	Seven Brides for Seven Brothers	Talley	Episode: "Daniel's Song"
1983	Murder Me, Murder You	Michelle Jameson	Television film
1984	Boone	Sonny Watson	Episode: "Hard to Get"
1985	Stormin' Home	Sissy Rigetti	Television film
1986	Moonlighting	Toby	Episode: "Sleep Talkin' Guy"
1986	Annihilator	Cindy	Television film
1986	Deadly Nightmares	Miranda	Episode: "One Last Prayer"
1986	Starman	Angela	Episode: "Secrets"
1987	Magnum, P.I.	Andrea Nicholson	Episode: "Out of Sync"
1988	CBS Summer Playhouse	Pat Yaraslovsky	Episode: "Off Duty"
1988	Unholy Matrimony	Karen Sader	Television film
1990	Murder, She Wrote	Andrea Bascomb Douglas	Episode: "Always a Thief"
1991	Sons and Daughters	Mary Ruth Hammersmith	7 episodes
1992	In Sickness and in Health	Carmen	Television film
1992	Picket Fences	Melanie Marino	Episode: "Pilot"
1992	An American Story	Becky Meadows	Television film
1994	Murder Between Friends	Janet Myers	Television film
1995	The Client	Bernice	Episode: "Them That Has..."
1997	Get to the Heart: The Barbara Mandrell Story	Mary Mandrell	Television film
1997	Fitz	Diana Falls	Episode: "Sons and Lovers"
1996–1997	Profit	Bobbi Stakowski	Lead role; 8 episodes
1999	Traffic		Television mini-series
2002	Judging Amy	Jean Collins	Episode: "Every Stranger's Face I See"
2003	Trash	Lisa	Television film

External links

• Lisa Blount at IMDb
• Lisa Blount at AllMovie
• Lisa Blount at Find a Grave