Academy Award Best Actor · birth-card coordinate

Sean Penn's Birth Card: The 9 of Clubs

2004 Best Actor — Mystic River; 2009 Best Actor — Milk

Born August 17, 1960

The Humanitarian 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

Sean Justin Penn (born August 17, 1960) is an American actor and filmmaker. The birth-card coordinate for August 17 is the 9 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2004 Best Actor — Mystic River; 2009 Best Actor — Milk win.

Academy Award record

The 9 of Clubs coordinate

Sean Penn's birthday maps to the 9 of Clubs (The Humanitarian 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 Sean Penn. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You let a used-up framework go and keep the part that still works.

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Sean Penn in the public record

He is known for his intense leading man roles in film. His accolades include three Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a British Academy Film Award, and nominations for an Emmy Award and a Grammy Award. He received the Honorary César in 2015 and the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award in 2022. Penn made his feature film debut in the drama Taps (1981), before taking roles in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), Bad Boys (1983), and At Close Range (1986). He has won three Academy Awards, Best Actor twice for playing a grieving father in Mystic River (2003) and the gay rights activist Harvey Milk in Milk (2008), and Best Supporting Actor for playing corrupt military officer Steven J. Lockjaw in One Battle After Another (2025). He was also Oscar-nominated for Dead Man Walking (1995), Sweet and Lowdown (1999), and I Am Sam (2001). He also acted in Casualties of War (1989), State of Grace (1990), Carlito's Way (1993), The Game (1997), The Thin Red Line (1998), Hurlyburly (1998), 21 Grams (2003), Fair Game (2010), The Tree of Life (2011), Licorice Pizza (2021), and Daddio (2023).

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

Where the record meets the Queen 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 Sean Penn, and not a forecast of an Oscar.

Cards in Sean Penn's fixed path

Birth card and karma

Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)

The planetary ruling card for this birthday is the birth card itself, 9♣, so it adds no further cards to the path.

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.

Nurturing others through authentic, intuitive presence

Q♥ — Karma — Displacement, fixed to the 9♣, from the published Queen of Hearts meaning

He received the Honorary César in 2015 and the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award in 2022.

Paired on relationship and feeling — the domain ♥ governs in this system. Markers in the record: humanitarian.

Also on the record

  1. Penn made his directorial film debut with the crime drama The Indian Runner (1991), followed by The Crossing Guard (1995), The Pledge (2001), and Into the Wild (2007).
  2. On stage, he acted in the Broadway plays Heartland (1981) and Slab Boys (1983).
  3. On television, he portrayed an astronaut in the Hulu drama series The First (2018) and John N.
  4. Mitchell in the Starz political thriller miniseries Gaslit (2022).

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FAQ

What is Sean Penn's birth card?
The 9 of Clubs. August 17 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 Sean Penn's dates come from?
Birth date 1960-08-17 is the day-precision date on Sean Penn'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, Sean Penn) + Wikidata CC0 (Q44221). Birth date 1960-08-17 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).