Tom Hanks's Birth Card: The 6 of Diamonds

In the record

Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American actor and filmmaker. The birth-card coordinate for July 9 is the 6 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1994 Best Actor — Philadelphia; 1995 Best Actor — Forrest Gump win.

Academy Award record

• 1994 Best Actor — Philadelphia
• 1995 Best Actor — Forrest Gump

The 6 of Diamonds coordinate

Tom Hanks's birthday maps to the 6 of Diamonds (The Generous Provider). 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 Tom Hanks. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You move resources toward other people without erasing your own claim.

Live 6 of Diamonds meaning page

Tom Hanks in the public record

Known for both his comedic and dramatic roles, he is one of the most popular and recognizable film stars worldwide, and is regarded as an American cultural icon. In 2020, Hanks was ranked as the fourth-highest-grossing American film actor of all time. His numerous awards include two Academy Awards, seven Emmy Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards; he has also been nominated for five BAFTA Awards and a Tony Award. He received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2002, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2014, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016, and the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2020. Hanks rose to fame with leading roles in the comedies Splash (1984), The Money Pit (1986), Big (1988), and A League of Their Own (1992). He won two consecutive Academy Awards for Best Actor, playing a gay lawyer suffering from AIDS in Philadelphia (1993), then the title character in Forrest Gump (1994). Hanks has collaborated with Steven Spielberg on five films—Saving Private Ryan (1998), Catch Me If You Can (2002), The Terminal (2004), Bridge of Spies (2015) and The Post (2017)—and three World War II–themed miniseries: Band of Brothers (2001), The Pacific (2010) and Masters of the Air (2024).

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

Where the record meets the 5 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 Tom Hanks, and not a forecast of an Oscar.

You let love change shape without using motion as a way out of being seen. You're wired for change, movement, and experience—love, for you, is a journey rather than a destination. You bring adaptability and freshness to connection, and you understand that people and feelings transform over time.

He has hosted Saturday Night Live ten times and launched a production company, Playtone, which has produced various limited series and television movies, including From the Earth to the Moon (1998), Band of Brothers, John Adams (2008), The Pacific, Game Change (2012) and Olive Kitteridge (2015).

Paired on shared wording: change, times. This line comes from the Pluto position of the 6♦'s Life Spread.

Also on the record

1. He has also frequently collaborated with directors Ron Howard, Nora Ephron and Robert Zemeckis.
2. Hanks cemented his film stardom with lead roles in the romantic comedies Sleepless in Seattle (1993) and You've Got Mail (1998); the dramas Apollo 13 (1995), The Green Mile (1999), Cast Away (2000), Road to Perdition (2002), Cloud Atlas (2012) and News of the World (2020); and the biographical dramas Charlie Wilson's War (2007), Captain Phillips (2013), Saving Mr.
3. Banks (2013), Sully (2016), A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019) and Elvis (2022).
4. He played the title character in the Robert Langdon series (2006–2016), voiced Sheriff Woody in the Toy Story franchise (1995–present) and multiple roles in The Polar Express (2004).

Other winners with this card

• Charlize Theron — 2004 Best Actress — Monster
• Emma Thompson — 1993 Best Actress — Howards End
• Lee Marvin — 1966 Best Actor — Cat Ballou
• Paul Scofield — 1967 Best Actor — A Man for All Seasons

FAQ

What is Tom Hanks's birth card?

The 6 of Diamonds. July 9 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 Tom Hanks's dates come from?

Birth date 1956-07-09 is the day-precision date on Tom Hanks'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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