Lisa Suzanne Blount (July 1, 1957 – October 25, 2010)[1] 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).
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| Born | Lisa Suzanne Blount July 1, 1957 Fayetteville, Arkansas, U.S. |
| Died | October 25, 2010 (aged 53) Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S. |
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| Occupation(s) | Actress, producer |
| Years active | 1977–2010 |
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| Awards | Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film 2001 The Accountant |
Early life
editBlount was born in Fayetteville, Arkansas,[1] 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.[citation needed]
Career
editAfter 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).[1]
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.[citation needed]
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.[2] 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
editBlount was found dead in her home in Little Rock, Arkansas by her mother on October 25, 2010.[3] 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.[4][5]
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".[6]
Filmography
edit| 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 | [7] | |
| 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 |
| 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 |
References
edit- ^ a b c Kadden, Jack (October 29, 2010). "Lisa Blount, 53, Played Cynical Friend". The New York Times. p. B 11. Retrieved May 15, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ The Accountant, DVD end credits.
- ^ "Actress Lisa Blount, memorable for 'An Officer and a Gentleman', is found dead at 53", Los Angeles Times. October 27, 2010
- ^ "Oscar-winning actress Lisa Blount dies at 53", Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. October 27, 2010
- ^ "Lisa Blount Found Dead on Wednesday", The News of Today; accessed September 3, 2015.
- ^ "EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: An Officer and a Gentleman Star Lisa Blount Lived in Excruciating Pain, Says Mom". October 28, 2010. Retrieved September 3, 2015.
- ^ Roberta Bernstein, "Murder Between Friends", in Variety and Daily Variety Television Reviews, 1993-1994, January 11, 1994, p. 12