Emma Thompson's Birth Card: The 6 of Diamonds

In the record

Dame Emma Thompson (born 15 April 1959) is an English actress and screenwriter. The birth-card coordinate for April 15 is the 6 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1993 Best Actress — Howards End win.

Academy Award record

• 1993 Best Actress — Howards End

The 6 of Diamonds coordinate

Emma Thompson's birthday maps to the 6 of Diamonds (The Generous Provider). 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 Emma Thompson. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You move resources toward other people without erasing your own claim.

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Emma Thompson in the public record

Her work spans over four decades of screen and stage, and her accolades include two Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award as well as a nomination for two Grammy Awards. In 2018, she was made a dame by Queen Elizabeth II for her contributions to drama. Born to actors Eric Thompson and Phyllida Law, Thompson was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge, where she became a member of the Footlights troupe, and appeared in the comedy sketch series Alfresco (1983–1984). In 1985, she starred in the West End revival of the musical Me and My Girl, which was a breakthrough in her career. In 1987, she came to prominence for her performances in two BBC series, Tutti Frutti and Fortunes of War, winning the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for her work on both series. In the early 1990s, she often collaborated with then-husband, actor and director Kenneth Branagh, in films such as Henry V (1989), Dead Again (1991), and Much Ado About Nothing (1993). For her performance in the Merchant-Ivory period drama Howards End (1992), Thompson won the BAFTA Award and the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 1993, she received two Academy Award nominations—Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress—for the respective roles of the housekeeper of a grand household in The Remains of the Day and a lawyer in In the Name of the Father, becoming one of the few actors to achieve this feat.

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

Where the record meets the cards

No sentence in the sourced record shows a clear echo of the published language for 6♦, 3♠, 9♣, 10♦, Q♠, Q♣, 4♠, 10♥, 8♠, A♥, A♦, Q♦, 5♥, 3♣, 9♥, 7♣. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast an Oscar.

Also on the record

1. Thompson wrote and starred in Sense and Sensibility (1995), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay—making her the only person in history to win Oscars for both acting and writing—and once again won the BAFTA.
2. Further critical acclaim came for her roles in Primary Colors (1998), Love Actually (2003), Saving Mr.
3. Banks (2013), Late Night (2019), and Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022).
4. Other notable film credits include the Harry Potter saga (2004–2011), Nanny McPhee (2005) (which she also wrote), Stranger than Fiction (2006), An Education (2009), Men in Black 3 (2012) and the spin-off Men in Black: International (2019), Brave (2012), Beauty and the Beast (2017), Cruella (2021), and Matilda the Musical (2022).

Other winners with this card

• Charlize Theron — 2004 Best Actress — Monster
• Lee Marvin — 1966 Best Actor — Cat Ballou
• Paul Scofield — 1967 Best Actor — A Man for All Seasons
• Tom Hanks — 1994 Best Actor — Philadelphia; 1995 Best Actor — Forrest Gump

FAQ

What is Emma Thompson's birth card?

The 6 of Diamonds. April 15 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 Emma Thompson's dates come from?

Birth date 1959-04-15 is the day-precision date on Emma Thompson'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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