Primetime Emmy winner · birth-card coordinate
James Spader's Birth Card: The 5 of Spades
The Restless Mind
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
James Todd Spader ( SPAY-dər; born February 7, 1960) is an American actor. The birth-card coordinate for February 7 is the 5 of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2004 Lead Actor in a Drama Series (The Practice); 2005 Lead Actor in a Drama Series (Boston Legal); 2007 Lead Actor in a Drama Series (Boston Legal) win.
Primetime Emmy Lead record
- 2004 Lead Actor in a Drama Series — The Practice as Alan Shore
- 2005 Lead Actor in a Drama Series — Boston Legal as Alan Shore
- 2007 Lead Actor in a Drama Series — Boston Legal as Alan Shore
The 5 of Spades coordinate
James Spader's birthday maps to the 5 of Spades (The Restless Mind). 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 James Spader. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You stay in the hard stretch long enough to get better at it.
James Spader in the public record
He is known for often portraying morally ambiguous and eccentric characters. His accolades include three Primetime Emmy Awards, a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor, and nominations for three Golden Globe Awards and ten Screen Actors Guild Awards. Spader began acting in youth-oriented films such as Tuff Turf, The New Kids (both 1985), Pretty in Pink (1986), and Mannequin (1987). His breakthrough role came in Steven Soderbergh's drama Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989), for which he received the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor. He then starred in films such as White Palace (1990), True Colors (1991), Stargate (1994), 2 Days in the Valley (1996), and Secretary (2002). Spader took supporting roles in Bob Roberts (1992), Wolf (1994), Lincoln (2012), and The Homesman (2014). He also played the role of Ultron in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) and is set to reprise the role in VisionQuest (2026). His television roles include the attorney Alan Shore in the last season of The Practice (2003–2004) and its spin-off Boston Legal (2004–2008), which earned him three Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article James Spader (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the cards
Cards in James Spader's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 5♠ — Birth Card: The Restless Mind
- 4♦ — Karma — Environment: The Financial Foundation Builder
- 10♥ — Karma — Displacement: The Community Heart
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- J♥ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 9♣ — Life Spread — Venus
- 9♠ — Life Spread — Mars
- 2♥ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- K♥ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 6♥ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 4♣ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 2♦ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- K♦ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Wealthy King
- 7♠ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Questioning Mind
- 3♣ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Creative Communicator
- J♠ — PRC Life Spread — Jupiter: The Messenger of Truth
- 8♣ — PRC Life Spread — Saturn: The Ambitious Builder
- 6♦ — PRC Life Spread — Uranus: The Generous Provider
- 4♠ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Rigid Truth
- 10♦ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Wealthy Master
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.
No sentence in the sourced record shows a clear echo of the published language for 5♠, 4♦, 10♥, K♦, 7♠, 3♣, J♥, 9♣, 9♠, 2♥, K♥, 6♥, 4♣, 2♦, J♠, 8♣, 6♦, 4♠, 10♦. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast an Emmy.
Also on the record
- He portrayed Robert California in the sitcom The Office (2011–2012).
- He then starred as Raymond Reddington in the NBC crime thriller television series The Blacklist (2013–2023), for which he received two Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Actor – Television Series Drama.
Other Emmy winners with this card
- Alec Baldwin — 2008 Lead Actor in a Comedy Series (30 Rock); 2009 Lead Actor in a Comedy Series (30 Rock)
FAQ
- What is James Spader's birth card?
- The 5 of Spades. February 7 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 James Spader's dates come from?
- Birth date 1960-02-07 is the day-precision date on James Spader'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 (James Spader; winner list) + Wikidata CC0 (Q296928). Birth date 1960-02-07 is the Wikipedia day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).