Lisa Blount
Lisa Suzanne Blount (July 1, 1957 – October 27, 2010) 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 (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 highly successful revival of the musical "Hair". Career. Blount received a Golden Globe nomination for new star of the year for her performance in "An Officer and a Gentleman", and she acted in 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 (1986). 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 (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".