Forest Whitaker's Birth Card: The King of Clubs

In the record

Forest Steven Whitaker III (born July 15, 1961) is an American actor, filmmaker, and activist. The birth-card coordinate for July 15 is the King of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2007 Best Actor — The Last King of Scotland win.

Academy Award record

• 2007 Best Actor — The Last King of Scotland

The King of Clubs coordinate

Forest Whitaker's birthday maps to the King of Clubs (The Master Leader). 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 Forest Whitaker. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You make the intellectual call in the open and you can revise it.

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Forest Whitaker in the public record

His accolades include an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a British Academy Film Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor and the Honorary Palme d'Or. After making his film debut in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), Whitaker went on to earn a reputation for intensive character study work for films, such as Platoon (1986), Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), Bird (1988), The Crying Game (1992), Phenomenon (1996), Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999), The Great Debaters (2007), The Butler (2013), Arrival (2016), and Respect (2021). He has also appeared in The Color of Money (1986), Panic Room (2002), Where the Wild Things Are (2009), and Black Panther (2018) as Zuri. Whitaker starred in the Star Wars franchise as Saw Gerrera, appearing in the film Rogue One (2016) and would later reprise the role in the television series Star Wars: Rebels (2017) and Andor (2022–2025), as well as the video game Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (2019). Whitaker won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in the historical drama The Last King of Scotland (2006). Whitaker made his directorial debut with the television film Strapped (1993) and directed the films Waiting to Exhale (1995), Hope Floats (1998), and First Daughter (2004). On television, he portrayed Lieutenant Jon Kavanaugh on the fifth and sixth seasons of The Shield (2006–2007) and since 2019, he has starred as Bumpy Johnson in the Epix crime drama series Godfather of Harlem. He made his Broadway debut in the revival of Eugene O'Neill's Hughie (2016).

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

Where the record meets the 8 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 Forest Whitaker, and not a forecast of an Oscar.

You take the hard lead and you stay with the work after the call is made. Your mind is sharp, commanding, powerful. You think strategically and forcefully. You win arguments and debates. Your thinking dominates.

After making his film debut in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), Whitaker went on to earn a reputation for intensive character study work for films, such as Platoon (1986), Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), Bird (1988), The Crying Game (1992), Phenomenon (1996), Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999), The Great Debaters (2007), The Butler (2013), Arrival (2016), and Respect (2021).

Paired on shared wording: debaters, work.

Also on the record

1. Apart from his acting career, Whitaker is also known for his humanitarian work and activism.
2. In 2011, he was inducted as a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, later receiving a promotion to Special Envoy for Peace and Reconciliation, and is the CEO of Whitaker Peace and Development Initiative (WPDI), a non-profit outreach program.

Other winners with this card

• No other winner in this set shares the King of Clubs.

FAQ

What is Forest Whitaker's birth card?

The King of Clubs. July 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 Forest Whitaker's dates come from?

Birth date 1961-07-15 is the day-precision date on Forest Whitaker'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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