Born: 1957

Born in Arkansas, actress Lisa Blount made her feature film debut at the age of 17 as a teenage girl obsessed with James_Dean in 9/30/55, a film shot on-location in Arkansas. After moving to Hollywood, she appeared in the 1979 re-edit of the drama The_Swap (aka, Sam's_Song) starring Robert_De_Niro. Her breakthrough role came a few years later as Debra_Winger's best friend Lynette Pomeroy in the romantic drama An Officer and a Gentleman. Both Blount and co-star David_Keith were nominated for Best New Star at the 1983 Golden Globes. A few leading roles followed, including the war drama Cease_Fire opposite Don_Johnson. For the rest of the '80s, she had leading roles in several low-budget horror films, starting with the thriller Dead and Buried. On television, Blount starred in the short-lived family dramas Sons and Daughters and Profit, as well as several made-for-TV movies. In 1996, she made a brief comeback as Purlene Dupree, Catherine_Keener's sister in Tom DiCillo's Box of Moonlight. She also reunited with David_Keith to star in Matthew_Modine's 1999 crime drama If...Dog...Rabbit, released on home video as One_Last_Score. Not long after, Blount married actor/director Ray McKinnon and started making films projects with him. Their short film The_Accountant won Best Live Action Short Film at the 2001 Academy Awards. They worked together again on Chrystal, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in the dramatic competition. Blount, who suffered from a condition similar to multiple sclerosis, died of related complications in October 2010, at the age of 53. Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi

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