Lisa Suzanne Blount (July 1, 1957 – October 25, 2010)[1] was an American actress and film producer.

[citation needed] After several small television roles and in films like September 30, 1955 and Dead & Buried, Blount received a Golden Globe nomination for New Star of the Year for her performance as Lynette Pomeroy, in An Officer and a Gentleman (1982).

[1] She subsequently appeared in several "scream queen" horror film roles, including What Waits Below (1984, dir.

In the fall of 1987, she was cast as the female lead in the American Conservatory Theater's revival of the musical Hair.

[4][5] Although the coroner did not release an official cause of death, Blount's mother told RadarOnline.com that her daughter had had idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), in which low levels of platelets keep blood from clotting and lead to bleeding and bruising.