Michael Learned's Birth Card: The Queen of Diamonds

In the record

Michael Learned (born April 9, 1939) is an American actress, known for her role as Olivia Walton in the long-running CBS drama series The Waltons (1972–1981). The birth-card coordinate for April 9 is the Queen of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1973 Lead Actress in a Drama Series (The Waltons); 1974 Lead Actress in a Drama Series (The Waltons); 1976 Lead Actress in a Drama Series (The Waltons); 1982 Lead Actress in a Drama Series (Nurse) win.

Primetime Emmy Lead record

• 1973 Lead Actress in a Drama Series — The Waltons as Olivia Walton
• 1974 Lead Actress in a Drama Series — The Waltons as Olivia Walton
• 1976 Lead Actress in a Drama Series — The Waltons as Olivia Walton
• 1982 Lead Actress in a Drama Series — Nurse as Mary Benjamin

The Queen of Diamonds coordinate

Michael Learned's birthday maps to the Queen of Diamonds (The Prosperous Nurturer). 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 Michael Learned. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You protect what you have without making every dollar a referendum on safety.

Live Queen of Diamonds meaning page

Michael Learned in the public record

She has won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series four times, which is tied for the record of most wins with Tyne Daly. Three of the wins were for The Waltons (1973, 1974, 1976), while the other was for Nurse (1981-1982). Learned was born in Washington, D.C., the eldest daughter of Elizabeth Duane ("Betti"; née Hooper) and Bruce Learned, a diplomat. Her maternal grandfather also worked for the United States Foreign Service (of the U.S. State Department), and was an attaché for the United States Embassy in Rome (Italy). She has five younger sisters: Gretl, Susan, Sabra, Dorit and Philippa. She lived on a Connecticut farm for the first 10 years of her life. Learned said that her parents never explained why she received a masculine first name, once saying of her father: "All he told me was that if I had been a boy, I would have been named Caleb, but I was a girl, so I was called Michael." When she was 11, Learned moved to Austria, where her father worked for the U.S.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Michael Learned (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the 3 of Spades

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 Michael Learned, and not a forecast of an Emmy.

You stay with the hard feeling long enough to learn it, then you let the day continue.

Michael Learned (born April 9, 1939) is an American actress, known for her role as Olivia Walton in the long-running CBS drama series The Waltons (1972–1981).

Paired on shared wording: learned, long.

Also on the record

1. Department of State.
2. At this time, she attended Arts Educational School, Tring, (now the Tring Park School for the Performing Arts in Tring, Hertfordshire, England, (United Kingdom).
3. During this time, she discovered the theater and acting, and decided to make acting her life's work.
4. Her first substantial role in either film / motion pictures or television was as the character Olivia Walton, the wife of John Walton, Sr. on The Waltons drama / nostalgia television series, which ran for nine seasons from 1972 to 1981.

Other Emmy winners with this card

• Jodie Comer — 2019 Lead Actress in a Drama Series (Killing Eve)

FAQ

What is Michael Learned's birth card?

The Queen of Diamonds. April 9 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 Michael Learned's dates come from?

Birth date 1939-04-09 is the day-precision date on Michael Learned'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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