Academy Award Best Actress · birth-card coordinate
Marlee Matlin's Birth Card: The 2 of Clubs
The Collaborative Builder
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
Marlee Matlin (born August 24, 1965) is an American actress. The birth-card coordinate for August 24 is the 2 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1987 Best Actress — Children of a Lesser God win.
Academy Award record
- 1987 Best Actress — Children of a Lesser God
The 2 of Clubs coordinate
Marlee Matlin'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 Marlee Matlin. 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.
Marlee Matlin in the public record
Having been deaf since 18 months of age, she is known for her activism on behalf of deaf individuals in Hollywood and other industries. Her accolades include an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, in addition to nominations for a British Academy Film Award and four Primetime Emmy Awards. In 2009, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Matlin made her acting debut playing Sarah Norman in the romantic drama film Children of a Lesser God (1986), winning the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. She is the first deaf performer to win an Academy Award, the youngest winner in the Best Actress category, and one of four women to win the award for their screen debut. For playing a district attorney in the police drama series Reasonable Doubts (1991–1993), she was twice nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama. She received a nomination for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her guest role in the comedy series Seinfeld (1993), and received three more nominations for Picket Fences (1993), The Practice (2000), and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2004–2005) in the drama category. Matlin has primarily worked in television, as she has found more roles for deaf actors.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Marlee Matlin (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the cards
Cards in Marlee Matlin's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 2♣ — Birth Card: The Collaborative Builder
- K♥ — Karma — Environment: The Compassionate King
- A♠ — Karma — Displacement: The Truth Pioneer
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- J♦ — Life Spread — Venus
- 4♥ — Life Spread — Mars
- 4♦ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 8♥ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 6♣ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 6♠ — Life Spread — Pluto
- Q♥ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
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 2♣, K♥, A♠, K♣, 8♠, 2♠, J♦, 4♥, 4♦, 8♥, 6♣, 6♠, Q♥, 10♣. 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 played Joey Lucas on the political drama series The West Wing (2000–2006), appeared in the drama series The L Word (2007–2009) and Switched at Birth (2011–2017), and voiced Stella in the animated sitcom Family Guy (2012–2021).
- She made her Broadway debut in the 2015 revival of Spring Awakening.
- For her role in the coming-of-age film CODA (2021), she won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.
- Outside of acting, Matlin is a prominent member of the National Association of the Deaf, and her interpreter is Jack Jason.
Other winners with this card
- Helen Mirren — 2007 Best Actress — The Queen
- Kathy Bates — 1991 Best Actress — Misery
- Kevin Spacey — 2000 Best Actor — American Beauty
- Paul Muni — 1937 Best Actor — The Story of Louis Pasteur
- Sandra Bullock — 2010 Best Actress — The Blind Side
FAQ
- What is Marlee Matlin's birth card?
- The 2 of Clubs. August 24 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 Marlee Matlin's dates come from?
- Birth date 1965-08-24 is the day-precision date on Marlee Matlin'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, Marlee Matlin) + Wikidata CC0 (Q213287). Birth date 1965-08-24 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).