Academy Award Best Actress · birth-card coordinate
Ellen Burstyn's Birth Card: The Jack of Clubs
The Creative Messenger
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
Ellen Burstyn (born Edna Rae Gillooly; December 7, 1932) is an American actress. The birth-card coordinate for December 7 is the Jack of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1975 Best Actress — Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore win.
Academy Award record
- 1975 Best Actress — Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
The Jack of Clubs coordinate
Ellen Burstyn's birthday maps to the Jack of Clubs (The Creative Messenger). 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 Ellen Burstyn. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You bring a new angle and you let someone pressure-test it before it ships.
Ellen Burstyn in the public record
Known for her portrayals of complex women in dramas, she is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a Tony Award, and two Primetime Emmy Awards. Burstyn is one of the few performers to achieve the "Triple Crown of Acting". She has also received a BAFTA Award and a Golden Globe Award. Burstyn made her acting debut on Broadway in Fair Game in 1957 before winning the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for Same Time, Next Year (1975). She earned the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as the widow Alice Hyatt in Martin Scorsese's romantic drama Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974). Her other Oscar-nominated roles were in The Last Picture Show (1971), The Exorcist (1973), Same Time, Next Year (1978), Resurrection (1980), and Requiem for a Dream (2000). Her other notable films include Harry and Tonto (1974), How to Make an American Quilt (1995), Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002), W. (2008), Interstellar (2014), The Age of Adaline (2015), and Pieces of a Woman (2020). She won Primetime Emmy Awards for her guest role in the NBC crime drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2009), and for her supporting role in the USA Network political miniseries Political Animals (2013).
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Ellen Burstyn (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the cards
Cards in Ellen Burstyn's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- J♣ — Birth Card: The Creative Messenger
- 10♥ — Karma — Environment: The Community Heart
- J♦ — Karma — Displacement: The Successful Messenger
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 9♦ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 7♠ — Life Spread — Venus
- 2♣ — Life Spread — Mars
- 4♥ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 4♦ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 8♥ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- K♣ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Master Leader
- 8♠ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Powerful Mind
- 2♠ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Skeptical Partner
- 6♣ — PRC Life Spread — Uranus: The Nurturing Creator
- 6♠ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Responsible Mind
- Q♥ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Devoted Nurturer
- 10♣ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Master 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 J♣, 10♥, J♦, K♣, 8♠, 2♠, 9♦, 7♠, 2♣, 4♥, 4♦, 8♥, 6♣, 6♠, Q♥, 10♣. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast an Oscar.
Also on the record
- Her other Emmy-nominated roles include Pack of Lies (1988), Mrs.
- Harris (2005), Big Love (2008), Flowers in the Attic (2014), and House of Cards (2016).
- Since 2000, she has been co-president of the Actors Studio, a drama school in New York City.
- In 2013, she was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame for her work onstage.
Other winners with this card
- Claudette Colbert — 1935 Best Actress — It Happened One Night
- Elizabeth Taylor — 1961 Best Actress — BUtterfield 8; 1967 Best Actress — Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- James Cagney — 1943 Best Actor — Yankee Doodle Dandy
- Jean Dujardin — 2012 Best Actor — The Artist
- Jennifer Lawrence — 2013 Best Actress — Silver Linings Playbook
- Joanne Woodward — 1958 Best Actress — The Three Faces of Eve
- Marie Dressler — 1932 Best Actress — Min and Bill
- Mikey Madison — 2025 Best Actress — Anora
- Simone Signoret — 1960 Best Actress — Room at the Top
FAQ
- What is Ellen Burstyn's birth card?
- The Jack of Clubs. December 7 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 Ellen Burstyn's dates come from?
- Birth date 1932-12-07 is the day-precision date on Ellen Burstyn'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, Ellen Burstyn) + Wikidata CC0 (Q211144). Birth date 1932-12-07 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).