Kathy Bates's Birth Card: The 2 of Clubs

In the record

Kathleen Doyle Bates (born June 28, 1948) is an American actress and director. The birth-card coordinate for June 28 is the 2 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1991 Best Actress — Misery win.

Academy Award record

• 1991 Best Actress — Misery

The 2 of Clubs coordinate

Kathy Bates's birthday maps to the 2 of Clubs (The Collaborative Builder). 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 Kathy Bates. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You think with someone else and still leave the conversation with a position of your own.

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Kathy Bates in the public record

Her work spans over five decades, and her accolades include an Academy Award, two Emmy Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for a Tony Award and two BAFTA Awards. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Bates studied theater at Southern Methodist University before moving to New York City to pursue an acting career. She landed minor stage roles before being cast in her first on-screen role in Taking Off (1971). Her first Off-Broadway stage role was in the play Vanities (1976). She garnered a nomination for the Tony Award Best Lead Actress in a Play for the Marsha Norman play 'night, Mother (1983), and won an Obie Award for her role in Terrence McNally's Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (1988). Bates won the Academy Award for Best Actress for portraying Annie Wilkes in the psychological thriller Misery (1990). She was further Oscar-nominated for her roles as a tough political operative in Primary Colors (1998), a free-spirited neighbor in About Schmidt (2002), and the mother of a bombing suspect in Richard Jewell (2019). She has also acted in Fried Green Tomatoes (1991), Dolores Claiborne (1995), Titanic (1997), The Waterboy (1998), Revolutionary Road (2008), The Blind Side (2009), Midnight in Paris (2011), and Are You There God?

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

Where the record meets the King 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 Kathy Bates, and not a forecast of an Oscar.

You hold emotional authority without hiding behind it. You carry authority in the realm of feeling—the maturity and depth to lead others emotionally and hold space with real strength. At your best, you command emotional situations with both power and authentic care, the steady presence people anchor to.

She garnered a nomination for the Tony Award Best Lead Actress in a Play for the Marsha Norman play 'night, Mother (1983), and won an Obie Award for her role in Terrence McNally's Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (1988).

Paired on shared wording: best, lead.

Also on the record

1. It's Me, Margaret. (2023).
2. On television, Bates received Primetime Emmy Awards for her performance as the Ghost of Charlie Harper in Two and a Half Men (2012) and for her portrayal of Delphine LaLaurie in American Horror Story: Coven (2013).
3. She was also Emmy-nominated for her roles in The Late Shift (1996), Annie (1999), Six Feet Under (2003), Warm Springs (2005), Harry's Law (2011–2012), American Horror Story: Freak Show (2014), and American Horror Story: Hotel (2015).
4. Since 2024, she has portrayed the titular lead in the CBS series Matlock, for which she was also nominated for an Emmy.

Other winners with this card

• Helen Mirren — 2007 Best Actress — The Queen
• Kevin Spacey — 2000 Best Actor — American Beauty
• Marlee Matlin — 1987 Best Actress — Children of a Lesser God
• Paul Muni — 1937 Best Actor — The Story of Louis Pasteur
• Sandra Bullock — 2010 Best Actress — The Blind Side

FAQ

What is Kathy Bates's birth card?

The 2 of Clubs. June 28 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 Kathy Bates's dates come from?

Birth date 1948-06-28 is the day-precision date on Kathy Bates'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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