Lisa Blount


Lisa Suzanne Blount was an American film and television actress, and Academy Award-winning producer.

Early life

Blount was born in Fayetteville, Arkansas, to Margaret Louise Martin and Glen Roscoe Blount, and was raised in Jacksonville, Arkansas. After graduating from Jacksonville High School and studying theatre at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and Valdosta State University in Georgia, she landed several small television roles. She returned to college in 1986, this time at San Francisco State University, where she completed her degree in Theater Arts and spent the 1986/1987 academic year competing on SFSU's Forensics Team. In the fall of 1987, she was cast as the female lead in the American Conservatory Theater's highly successful revival of the musical Hair.

Career

Blount appeared in the acclaimed drama An Officer and a Gentleman and the 1987 cult horror film Prince of Darkness. Another memorable role was that of Jim Profit's outrageous stepmother Bobbi Stakowski in the short-lived television series Profit. She appeared in season two of Moonlighting in the episode "Sleep Talkin' Guy".
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.

Death

Blount was found dead in her home in Little Rock, Arkansas by her mother on October 27, 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 suffered from idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, 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

YearTitleRoleNotes
1977The Gong ShowAppears on The Gong ShowEpisode: Same episode with Pee Wee Herman
1982Seven Brides for Seven BrothersTalleyEpisode: "Daniel's Song"
1983Murder Me, Murder YouMichelle JamesonTelevision film
1984BooneSonny WatsonEpisode: "Hard to Get"
1985Stormin' HomeSissy RigettiTelevision film
1986MoonlightingTobyEpisode: "Sleep Talkin' Guy"
1986AnnihilatorCindyTelevision film
1986Deadly NightmaresMirandaEpisode: "One Last Prayer"
1986StarmanAngelaEpisode: "Secrets"
1987Magnum, P.I.Andrea NicholsonEpisode: "Out of Sync"
1988CBS Summer PlayhousePat YaraslovskyEpisode: "Off Duty"
1988Unholy MatrimonyKaren SaderTelevision film
1990Murder, She WroteAndrea Bascomb DouglasEpisode: "Always a Thief"
1991Sons and DaughtersMary Ruth Hammersmith7 episodes
1992In Sickness and in HealthCarmenTelevision film
1992Picket FencesMelanie MarinoEpisode: "Pilot"
1992An American StoryBecky MeadowsTelevision film
1994Murder Between FriendsJanet MyersTelevision film
1995The ClientBerniceEpisode: "Them That Has..."
1997Mary MandrellTelevision film
1997FitzDiana FallsEpisode: "Sons and Lovers"
1996–1997ProfitBobbi StakowskiLead role; 8 episodes
1999TrafficTelevision mini-series
2002Judging AmyJean CollinsEpisode: "Every Stranger's Face I See"
2003TrashLisaTelevision film

YearTitleNotes
2001The AccountantShort film
Academy Award for Best Short Film, Live Action
Spirit of Slamdance Award
2004Chrystal
2007Randy and the MobSpirit of Slamdance Award