Academy Award Best Actress · birth-card coordinate
Maggie Smith's Birth Card: The 3 of Hearts
The Creative Heart
A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict an Academy Award.
In the record
Dame Margaret Natalie Smith (28 December 1934 – 27 September 2024) was a British actress. The birth-card coordinate for December 28 is the 3 of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1970 Best Actress — The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie win.
Academy Award record
- 1970 Best Actress — The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The 3 of Hearts coordinate
Maggie Smith's birthday maps to the 3 of Hearts (The Creative Heart). 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 Maggie Smith. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You let love have range without using newness as an exit from the one that is already here.
Maggie Smith in the public record
Known for her wit in both comedic and dramatic roles, she had an extensive career on stage and screen spanning seven decades and was one of Britain's most recognisable and prolific actresses. She received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, five BAFTA Awards, four Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards and a Tony Award, as well as nominations for six Olivier Awards. Smith was one of the few performers to earn the Triple Crown of Acting. Smith began her stage career as a student, performing at the Oxford Playhouse in 1952, and made her professional debut on Broadway in New Faces of '56. Over the following decades Smith established herself as one of the most significant British theatre performers, working for the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company. On Broadway, she received the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for Lettice and Lovage (1990). She was Tony-nominated for Noël Coward's Private Lives (1975) and Tom Stoppard's Night and Day (1979). Smith won two Academy Awards: one Best Actress award for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) and one Best Supporting Actress award for California Suite (1978).
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Maggie Smith (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the cards
Cards in Maggie Smith's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 3♥ — Birth Card: The Creative Heart
- Q♣ — Karma — Environment: The Nurturing Leader
- A♥ — Karma — Displacement: The Emotional Pioneer
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- A♣ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 10♠ — Life Spread — Mars
- 5♣ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- A♠ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 7♥ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 7♦ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 5♠ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- 3♦ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Success Communicator
- Q♦ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Prosperous Nurturer
- 6♥ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Devoted Caregiver
- J♥ — PRC Life Spread — Saturn: The Romantic Messenger
- 9♣ — PRC Life Spread — Uranus: The Humanitarian Builder
- 9♠ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Idealistic Mind
- 2♥ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Loving Partner
- K♥ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Compassionate King
Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.
No sentence in the sourced record shows a clear echo of the published language for 3♥, Q♣, A♥, 3♦, Q♦, 6♥, A♣, 10♠, 5♣, A♠, 7♥, 7♦, 5♠, J♥, 9♣, 9♠, 2♥, K♥. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast an Oscar.
Also on the record
- She was Oscar-nominated for Othello (1965), Travels with My Aunt (1972), A Room with a View (1985) and Gosford Park (2001).
- She portrayed Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter film series (2001–2011).
- She also acted in Death on the Nile (1978), Hook (1991), Sister Act (1992), The Secret Garden (1993), The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012), Quartet (2012) and The Lady in the Van (2015).
- Smith received newfound attention and international fame for her role as Violet Crawley in the British period drama Downton Abbey (2010–2015).
Other winners with this card
- Denzel Washington — 2002 Best Actor — Training Day
- Jessie Buckley — 2026 Best Actress — Hamnet
FAQ
- What is Maggie Smith's birth card?
- The 3 of Hearts. December 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 Maggie Smith's dates come from?
- Birth date 1934-12-28 is the day-precision date on Maggie Smith'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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Sources: Oscars.org (AMPAS ceremony record) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Best Actor list, Best Actress list, Maggie Smith) + Wikidata CC0 (Q172653). Birth date 1934-12-28 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).