Laurence Olivier's Birth Card: The 10 of Clubs

In the record

Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier ( ə-LIV-ee-ay; 22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an English actor and director. The birth-card coordinate for May 22 is the 10 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1949 Best Actor — Hamlet win.

Academy Award record

• 1949 Best Actor — Hamlet

The 10 of Clubs coordinate

Laurence Olivier's birthday maps to the 10 of Clubs (The Master 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 Laurence Olivier. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You carry a finished body of knowledge and keep teaching from it.

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Laurence Olivier in the public record

He and his contemporaries John Gielgud, Michael Redgrave and Ralph Richardson made up a quartet of male actors who dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century. He also worked in films throughout his six-decade career, playing more than fifty cinema roles. Late in his career, Olivier had considerable success in television roles. Olivier's family had no theatrical connections, but his father, a clergyman, decided that his son should become an actor. After attending a drama school in London, Olivier learned his craft in a succession of acting jobs during the late 1920s. In 1930 he had his first important West End success in Noël Coward's Private Lives, and he appeared in his first film. In 1935 he played in a celebrated production of Romeo and Juliet alongside Gielgud and Peggy Ashcroft, and by the end of the decade he was an established star. In the 1940s, together with Richardson and John Burrell, Olivier was the co-director of the Old Vic, building it into a highly respected company.

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

Where the record meets the 7 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 Laurence Olivier, and not a forecast of an Oscar.

You look at love clearly without using analysis as a way not to feel it. You're wired to look beneath the surface of feeling, to seek the truth under the romance. You bring reflection and wisdom to love, asking what's real rather than what's merely pleasant. You can see emotional patterns others miss.

His television appearances included an adaptation of The Moon and Sixpence (1960), Long Day's Journey into Night (1973), Love Among the Ruins (1975), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1976), A Little Romance (1979), Brideshead Revisited (1981) and King Lear (1983).

Paired on shared wording: love, romance. This line comes from the Pluto position of the K♠'s Life Spread.

Also on the record

1. There his most celebrated roles included Shakespeare's Richard III and Sophocles's Oedipus.
2. In the 1950s Olivier was an independent actor-manager, but his stage career had stagnated until he joined the avant-garde English Stage Company in 1957 to play the title role in The Entertainer, a part he later reprised on film.
3. From 1963 to 1973 he was the founding director of Britain's National Theatre, running a resident company that fostered many future stars.
4. His own parts there included the title role in Othello (1965), and Shylock in The Merchant of Venice (1970).

Other winners with this card

• Barbra Streisand — 1969 Best Actress — Funny Girl
• Gene Hackman — 1972 Best Actor — The French Connection
• Maximilian Schell — 1962 Best Actor — Judgment at Nuremberg
• Nicole Kidman — 2003 Best Actress — The Hours
• Olivia Colman — 2019 Best Actress — The Favourite
• Shirley MacLaine — 1984 Best Actress — Terms of Endearment

FAQ

What is Laurence Olivier's birth card?

The 10 of Clubs. May 22 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 Laurence Olivier's dates come from?

Birth date 1907-05-22 is the day-precision date on Laurence Olivier'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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