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

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. After graduating from Jacksonville High School and studying theatre at the

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, and

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in Georgia, she landed several small television roles. She returned to college in 1986, this time at

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(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

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'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 ''

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'', 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 ''

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''. 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

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for the film '' The Accountant''. That film also credits her as wardrobe mistress. Blount produced and acted in '' Chrystal'', which starred

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Death

Blount was found dead in her home in

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by her mother on October 27, 2010. The coroner told the ''

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'' 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

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(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

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