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Ben Platt's Birth Card: The King of Hearts
The Compassionate King
A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict a Tony Award.
In the record
Benjamin Schiff Platt (born September 24, 1993) is an American actor and singer. The birth-card coordinate for September 24 is the King of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2017 Best Actor in a Musical (Dear Evan Hansen) win.
Tony Award record (leading acting)
- 2017 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical — Dear Evan Hansen as Evan Hansen
The King of Hearts coordinate
Ben Platt's birthday maps to the King of Hearts (The Compassionate King). 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 a Tony Award and not a verdict on Ben Platt. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You hold emotional authority without hiding behind it.
Ben Platt in the public record
The son of film and theater producer Marc Platt and philanthropist Julie Platt, he began his acting career in musical theater as a child and appeared in productions of The Sound of Music (2006) and The Book of Mormon (2012–2015), rising to prominence for originating the title role in the Broadway coming-of-age musical Dear Evan Hansen (2015–2017). His performance in the latter earned him multiple accolades, including the Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical (making him the youngest solo recipient of the award at the time), a Daytime Emmy, and a Grammy Award. Platt reprised the role of Evan Hansen in the 2021 film adaptation of the musical, produced by his father. His portrayal of Leo Frank in the 2023 Broadway revival of Parade earned him nominations for a Tony and a Grammy. Platt's film credits include the Pitch Perfect film series (2012–2017), Ricki and the Flash (2015), Run This Town (2019), and Theater Camp (2023), the latter of which he also co-wrote. Since 2019, he has starred in the Netflix comedy-drama series The Politician, for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. Platt signed with Atlantic Records in 2017 and released his debut studio album Sing to Me Instead in March 2019. In May 2020, the concert film Ben Platt Live from Radio City Music Hall debuted on Netflix.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Ben Platt (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the King 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 Ben Platt, and not a forecast of a Tony.
Cards in Ben Platt's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- K♥ — Birth Card: The Compassionate King
- 9♠ — Karma — Environment: The Idealistic Mind
- 2♣ — Karma — Displacement: The Collaborative Builder
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- K♦ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 2♦ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- J♠ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 8♣ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 6♦ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 4♠ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 10♥ — 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.
You hold emotional authority without hiding behind it. You carry authority in the realm of feeling—the maturity and depth to lead others emotionally and hold space with real strength. At your best, you command emotional situations with both power and authentic care, the steady presence people anchor to.
His performance in the latter earned him multiple accolades, including the Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical (making him the youngest solo recipient of the award at the time), a Daytime Emmy, and a Grammy Award.
Paired on shared wording: best, leading.
Also on the record
- Platt's second studio album Reverie was released on August 13, 2021.
- After signing with Interscope in 2023, Platt's third studio album Honeymind was released on May 31, 2024.
- In 2017, Platt was included on the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world.
Other leading Tony winners with this card
- Derek Jacobi — 1985 Best Actor in a Play (Much Ado About Nothing)
FAQ
- What is Ben Platt's birth card?
- The King of Hearts. September 24 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.
- Does a birth card predict a Tony Award?
- 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 Ben Platt's dates come from?
- Birth date 1993-09-24 is the day-precision date on Ben Platt's Wikipedia person page, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only Wikipedia dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Tony Award wins come from the Wikipedia leading-acting lists, which record the Tony Awards. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Sources: Tony Awards (tonyawards.com) + Wikipedia leading-acting lists + Wikidata CC0 (Q16236455) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Ben Platt). Birth date 1993-09-24 is the Wikipedia person-page day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).