‘An Officer And A Gentleman’ Actress Lisa Blount Found Dead

Lisa Blount and Ray McKinnon

(HMG Celebrity News) – Lisa Blount, who gained fame and a Golden Globe nomination – in 1982′s ‘An Officer And A Gentleman’, in which she played Debra Winger’s friend, Lynette Pomeroy, has died at the young age of 53. The actress who also co-starred with fellow Arkansan Billy Bob Thornton,in 2004′s Chrystal written and directed by her husband, Ray McKinnon, died at her Arkansas home after battling chronic illness and complaining of back and neck pain, police said.

Lisa, who won an Oscar in 2001 for producing the live-action short film The Accountant, had suffered from a rare and painful blood disorder for 17 years, that RadarOnline, says is Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP). ITP keeps blood from clotting and leads to bleeding and bruising.

Police were called to the home, after Louise  found her daughter dead in her bedroom with a purple look on her neck that looked like blood on the surface,” Blount told Radar: “We think she died very sudden. She had her phone in her hand and her bed was not disturbed.”

No foul play is suspected, though authorities haven’t released a cause of death.

Ray, who recently played a football coach in the hit film The Blind Side, was out of state at the time of Lisa’s death.  Louise says as recently as two weeks ago, Lisa “had been filming in Nashville for a TV pilot on Fox called Outlaw Country. She was excited to work with Mary Steenburgen.”