Katharine Hepburn's Birth Card: The 7 of Diamonds

In the record

Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an American actress whose career as a leading lady on stage and screen spanned six decades. The birth-card coordinate for May 12 is the 7 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1934 Best Actress — Morning Glory; 1968 Best Actress — Guess Who's Coming to Dinner; 1969 Best Actress — The Lion in Winter; 1982 Best Actress — On Golden Pond win.

Academy Award record

• 1934 Best Actress — Morning Glory
• 1968 Best Actress — Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
• 1969 Best Actress — The Lion in Winter
• 1982 Best Actress — On Golden Pond

The 7 of Diamonds coordinate

Katharine Hepburn's birthday maps to the 7 of Diamonds (The Skeptical Investor). 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 Katharine Hepburn. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You look at worth without reducing it to the account balance.

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Katharine Hepburn in the public record

Known for her headstrong independence, spirited personality, and outspokenness, she cultivated a screen persona that matched this public image, and regularly played strong-willed, sophisticated women. She worked in a varied range of genres, from screwball comedy to literary drama. Her accolades include a record four Academy Awards for Best Actress, two British Academy Film Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award, in addition to nominations for two Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards and eight Golden Globe Awards. Raised in Connecticut by progressive parents, Hepburn began to act while at Bryn Mawr College. Favorable reviews of her work on Broadway brought her to the attention of Hollywood. Her early years in film brought her international fame, including an Academy Award for Best Actress for her third film, Morning Glory (1933), but this was followed by a series of commercial failures culminating in the critically lauded box office failure Bringing Up Baby (1938). Hepburn made a comeback by buying out her contract with RKO Radio Pictures and acquiring the film rights to The Philadelphia Story, which she sold on the condition that she be the star. That comedy film was a box office success and landed her a third Academy Award nomination.

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

Where the record meets the Jack of Hearts

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 Katharine Hepburn, and not a forecast of an Oscar.

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Her early years in film brought her international fame, including an Academy Award for Best Actress for her third film, Morning Glory (1933), but this was followed by a series of commercial failures culminating in the critically lauded box office failure Bringing Up Baby (1938).

Paired on shared wording: best, bringing.

Also on the record

1. In the 1940s, she was contracted to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where her career focused on an alliance with Spencer Tracy.
2. The screen partnership spanned 26 years and produced nine films.
3. In the latter half of her life, Hepburn acted in Shakespearean stage productions and a range of literary roles.
4. She found a niche playing mature, independent, and sometimes unmarried or widowed women such as in The African Queen (1951), a persona the public embraced.

Other winners with this card

• Adrien Brody — 2003 Best Actor — The Pianist; 2025 Best Actor — The Brutalist
• Julie Christie — 1966 Best Actress — Darling
• Michelle Yeoh — 2023 Best Actress — Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Patricia Neal — 1964 Best Actress — Hud
• Rami Malek — 2019 Best Actor — Bohemian Rhapsody
• Rod Steiger — 1968 Best Actor — In the Heat of the Night

FAQ

What is Katharine Hepburn's birth card?

The 7 of Diamonds. May 12 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 Katharine Hepburn's dates come from?

Birth date 1907-05-12 is the day-precision date on Katharine Hepburn'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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