Viola Davis's Birth Card: The 2 of Diamonds

In the record

Viola Davis ( vy-OH-lə; born August 11, 1965) is an American actress and film producer. The birth-card coordinate for August 11 is the 2 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2015 Lead Actress in a Drama Series (How to Get Away with Murder) win.

Primetime Emmy Lead record

• 2015 Lead Actress in a Drama Series — How to Get Away with Murder as Annalise Keating

The 2 of Diamonds coordinate

Viola Davis's birthday maps to the 2 of Diamonds (The Financial Partner). 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 Viola Davis. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You name the exchange out loud and keep it fair for both sides.

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Viola Davis in the public record

Her accolades include both the Triple Crown of Acting and EGOT. Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2012 and 2017. The New York Times ranked her ninth on its list of the greatest actors of the 21st century (2020). Davis received the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the Golden Globe awards in 2025. A graduate of Juilliard, Davis began her career in Central Falls, Rhode Island, appearing in small stage productions. She made her Broadway debut in the August Wilson play Seven Guitars (1996) for which she earned her first Tony nomination. She would later win two Tony Awards, both for Wilson plays.

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

Where the record meets the 8 of Clubs

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 Viola Davis, and not a forecast of an Emmy.

You run a knowledge system other people can follow, and you stand behind the call. Your mind calculates power, influence, and success. You're ambitious and know how to leverage ideas into position. You think like a chess player.

Her first win was for Best Featured Actress in a Play playing the character Tonya, a woman grappling with trauma and loss in King Hedley II (2001), followed by her second win for Best Actress in a Play playing Rose Maxson, a working class mother in Fences (2010).

Paired on shared wording: followed, play. This line comes from the Venus position of the 2♦'s Life Spread.

Also on the record

1. Her first win was for Best Featured Actress in a Play playing the character Tonya, a woman grappling with trauma and loss in King Hedley II (2001), followed by her second win for Best Actress in a Play playing Rose Maxson, a working class mother in Fences (2010).
2. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for reprising her role in the 2016 film adaptation of Fences.
3. She was Oscar-nominated for playing a complex mother in Doubt (2008), a 1960s housemaid in The Help (2011), and Ma Rainey in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020).
4. On television, she became the first black actress to win the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her role as lawyer Annalise Keating in the ABC legal drama series How to Get Away with Murder (2014–2020).

Other Emmy winners with this card

• Helen Hunt — 1996 Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (Mad About You); 1997 Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (Mad About You); 1998 Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (Mad About You); 1999 Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (Mad About You)

FAQ

What is Viola Davis's birth card?

The 2 of Diamonds. August 11 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 Viola Davis's dates come from?

Birth date 1965-08-11 is the day-precision date on Viola Davis'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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