Lisa Blount

Lisa Blount is believed to have died two days earlier, on October 25. According to her mother, the actress suffered from a disease known as idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, which had left her with few platelets in her blood.

Born in Fayetteville, Arkansas, on July 1, 1957, Lisa S. Blount made a brief uncredited appearance in Sam’s Song , a film starring Robert De Niro , when she was just 12 years old. She knew then that hers was to dedicate herself professionally to acting, so when she graduated from the Jacksonville Institute, she began a prolific career as a secondary school.

After minimal roles in titles like Dead and Buried , she played Lynette Pomeroy, the cynical and insecure friend of Paula Pokrifki ( Debra Winger ) in An Officer and a Gentleman . Her character broke up with her boyfriend when she was left out of the cadet program because she only wanted him for her future in the army, and he ends up committing suicide. She was so good at playing this insensitive woman that she was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Secondary.

Although his career was promising at that time, the truth is that luck was not with him later. She was one of the protagonists of the horror film The Prince of Darkness , by John Carpenter , which did not have much impact, and was relegated to very secondary performances in soap operas such as Moonlight , Murder She Wrote and Magnum . She had a major role in Great Ball of Fire , a biography of musician Jerry Lee Lewis , and she was also one of the leads in the critically acclaimed series Profit , which failed to engage audiences and was quickly cancelled.

Divorced from camera operator Christopher Tuffy, she joined fellow actor Ray McKinnon . Together they won the Oscar for best short, as producers of The Accountant , where she played a wardrobe manager.