Lisa Blount

Lisa Blount was an American actress and film producer who grew up in Jacksonville, Arkansas and studied theater at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and Valdosta State University. After small television parts and early films such as Dead & Buried (1981), she earned a Golden Globe nomination for New Star of the Year as Lynette Pomeroy in An Officer and a Gentleman (1982). Horror roles followed, among them What Waits Below (1984), Cut and Run (1984), Nightflyers (1987) and John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness (1987), along with television work on Moonlighting and Profit. In 1987 she played the female lead in a revival of the musical Hair at the American Conservatory Theater. She later became a producer, winning an Academy Award for the live action short The Accountant (2001), and produced and acted in Chrystal with Billy Bob Thornton. She died in 2010.