Academy Award Best Actor · birth-card coordinate
Eddie Redmayne's Birth Card: The 8 of Spades
The Powerful Mind
A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict an Academy Award.
In the record
Edward John David Redmayne (born 6 January 1982) is an English actor. The birth-card coordinate for January 6 is the 8 of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2015 Best Actor — The Theory of Everything win.
Academy Award record
- 2015 Best Actor — The Theory of Everything
The 8 of Spades coordinate
Eddie Redmayne's birthday maps to the 8 of Spades (The Powerful 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 Academy Award and not a verdict on Eddie Redmayne. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You take the hard lead and you stay with the work after the call is made.
Eddie Redmayne in the public record
His accolades include an Academy Award, a Tony Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, and two Olivier Awards. Redmayne began his professional acting career on television and in theatre. He starred as Viola in Twelfth Night at Shakespeare's Globe, before transitioning to West End with starring roles in productions such as The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? (2004), Red (2009–2010), and Richard II (2011–2012); He received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and later the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performances in the West End and Broadway productions of Red. For his performances as The Emcee in the West End and Broadway revivals of Cabaret (2021–2022; 2024), he won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical and earned a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. Redmayne achieved wider recognition for his portrayal of physicist Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything (2014), which won him the Academy Award for Best Actor. He received a second Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of Lili Elbe in The Danish Girl (2015) and subsequently starred as Newt Scamander in the Fantastic Beasts film series (2016–2022). His other film credits include My Week with Marilyn (2011), Les Misérables (2012), Jupiter Ascending (2015), Early Man (2018), The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020), and The Good Nurse (2022). On television, he starred in the miniseries The Pillars of the Earth (2010) and Birdsong (2012), and has portrayed the Jackal in the spy thriller The Day of the Jackal (2024–present).
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Eddie Redmayne (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the cards
Cards in Eddie Redmayne's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 8♠ — Birth Card: The Powerful Mind
- 6♣ — Karma — Environment: The Nurturing Creator
- K♣ — Karma — Displacement: The Master Leader
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- A♥ — Life Spread — Mercury
- A♦ — Life Spread — Venus
- Q♦ — Life Spread — Mars
- 5♥ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 3♠ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 9♥ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 7♣ — Life Spread — Pluto
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- 3♣ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Creative Communicator
- K♦ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Wealthy King
- 5♦ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Dynamic Entrepreneur
- Q♠ — PRC Life Spread — Saturn: The Wise Guide
- J♣ — PRC Life Spread — Uranus: The Creative Messenger
- 9♦ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Universal Provider
- 7♠ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Questioning Mind
- 2♣ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Collaborative Builder
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 8♠, 6♣, K♣, 3♣, K♦, 5♦, A♥, A♦, Q♦, 5♥, 3♠, 9♥, 7♣, Q♠, J♣, 9♦, 7♠, 2♣. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast an Oscar.
Other winners with this card
- Jennifer Jones — 1944 Best Actress — The Song of Bernadette
- Loretta Young — 1948 Best Actress — The Farmer's Daughter
FAQ
- What is Eddie Redmayne's birth card?
- The 8 of Spades. January 6 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.
- Does a birth card predict an Oscar?
- 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 Eddie Redmayne's dates come from?
- Birth date 1982-01-06 is the day-precision date on Eddie Redmayne's Wikipedia infobox, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Winner identity comes from the Wikipedia Best Actor / Best Actress lists, which cite Oscars.org ceremony pages. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Sources: Oscars.org (AMPAS ceremony record) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Best Actor list, Best Actress list, Eddie Redmayne) + Wikidata CC0 (Q28288). Birth date 1982-01-06 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).