Primetime Emmy winner · birth-card coordinate
Craig T. Nelson's Birth Card: The 4 of Spades
The Rigid Truth
A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict an Emmy.
In the record
Craig Theodore Nelson (born April 4, 1944) is an American actor. The birth-card coordinate for April 4 is the 4 of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1992 Lead Actor in a Comedy Series (Coach) win.
Primetime Emmy Lead record
- 1992 Lead Actor in a Comedy Series — Coach as Hayden Fox
The 4 of Spades coordinate
Craig T. Nelson's birthday maps to the 4 of Spades (The Rigid Truth). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about an Emmy and not a verdict on Craig T. Nelson. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You build enough container that change can happen without the floor disappearing.
Craig T. Nelson in the public record
He is known for his roles as Hayden Fox in the ABC sitcom Coach (for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series), Deputy Warden Ward Wilson in Stir Crazy (1980), Steve Freeling in Poltergeist (1982), Burt Nickerson in All the Right Moves (1983), Peter Dellaplane in Action Jackson (1988), Chief Howard Hyde in Turner & Hooch (1989), Alex Cullen in The Devil's Advocate (1997), Chief Jack Mannion in the CBS drama The District (2000–2004), Coach Goddard in Blades of Glory (2007), The Warden in the NBC sitcom My Name Is Earl (2007), and the voice of Mr. Incredible in the 2004 film The Incredibles and its 2018 sequel. Nelson also starred as Zeek Braverman in the NBC drama series Parenthood (2010–2015) and recurred as Dale Ballard in the CBS sitcoms Young Sheldon (2019–2024) and its spin-off Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage (2024–present).
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Craig T. Nelson (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 4 of Hearts
A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Craig T. Nelson, and not a forecast of an Emmy.
Cards in Craig T. Nelson's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 4♠ — Birth Card: The Rigid Truth
- 4♥ — Karma — Environment: The Emotional Foundation Builder
- 10♣ — Karma — Displacement: The Master Builder
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 10♥ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 10♦ — Life Spread — Venus
- A♥ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- A♦ — Life Spread — Saturn
- Q♦ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 5♥ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 3♣ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 3♠ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- 8♠ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Powerful Mind
- 6♣ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Nurturing Creator
- K♣ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Master Leader
- 9♥ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Compassionate Idealist
- 7♣ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Analytical Creator
- 5♦ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Dynamic Entrepreneur
Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.
Building reliable emotional foundations and trust
He is known for his roles as Hayden Fox in the ABC sitcom Coach (for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series), Deputy Warden Ward Wilson in Stir Crazy (1980), Steve Freeling in Poltergeist (1982), Burt Nickerson in All the Right Moves (1983), Peter Dellaplane in Action Jackson (1988), Chief Howard Hyde in Turner & Hooch (1989), Alex Cullen in The Devil's Advocate (1997), Chief Jack Mannion in the CBS drama The District (2000–2004), Coach Goddard in Blades of Glory (2007), The Warden in the NBC sitcom My Name Is Earl (2007), and the voice of Mr. Incredible in the 2004 film The Incredibles and its 2018 sequel.
Paired on relationship and feeling — the domain ♥ governs in this system. Markers in the record: advocate.
Other Emmy winners with this card
- Christine Lahti — 1998 Lead Actress in a Drama Series (Chicago Hope)
FAQ
- What is Craig T. Nelson's birth card?
- The 4 of Spades. April 4 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.
- Does a birth card predict an Emmy?
- No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.
- Where do Craig T. Nelson's dates come from?
- Birth date 1944-04-04 is the day-precision date on Craig T. Nelson's Wikipedia article infobox or lead, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Lead Actor/Actress wins come from the Primetime Emmy drama and comedy Wikipedia lists, which compile Television Academy (emmys.com) results. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Sources: Television Academy / Emmys (emmys.com) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Craig T. Nelson; winner list) + Wikidata CC0 (Q329807). Birth date 1944-04-04 is the Wikipedia day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).