Beryl Reid's Birth Card: The King of Clubs

In the record

Beryl Elizabeth Reid (17 June 1919 – 13 October 1996) was a British actress. The birth-card coordinate for June 17 is the King of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1967 Best Actress in a Play (The Killing of Sister George) win.

Tony Award record (leading acting)

• 1967 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play — The Killing of Sister George as Sister George / June Buckridge

The King of Clubs coordinate

Beryl Reid's birthday maps to the King of Clubs (The Master Leader). 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 Beryl Reid. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You make the intellectual call in the open and you can revise it.

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Beryl Reid in the public record

She won the 1967 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for The Killing of Sister George, the 1980 Olivier Award for Best Comedy Performance for Born in the Gardens, and the 1982 BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for Smiley's People. Her film appearances included The Belles of St. Trinian's (1954), The Killing of Sister George (1968), The Assassination Bureau (1969), and No Sex Please, We're British (1973). Beryl Elizabeth Reid was born on 17 June 1919 in Hereford, Herefordshire, daughter of Leonard Reid, an estate agent and valuer, and Anne Burton, née McDonald. Reid was the daughter of Scottish parents and grew up in Manchester, where she attended Withington and Levenshulme High Schools. As a child, she established a lifelong friendship with Nancy Wrigley, the daughter of the prominent classical soprano, Dame Isobel Baillie. Years later, Reid fondly recalled how Baillie would "tell us the most wonderful things...you can imagine nine-year-old girls goggle-eyed at six princes serenading her in Hawaii!" Leaving school at 16, she made her debut in 1936 as a music hall performer at the Floral Hall, Bridlington. Before and during the Second World War, she took part in variety shows and pantomimes.

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

Where the record meets the Jack of Diamonds

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 Beryl Reid, and not a forecast of a Tony.

You try a new approach to value and you finish enough of it to know if it works. You bring new ways of thinking about resources and success. You're the one who shifts how people relate to money. You inspire financial breakthroughs.

The tour of the play was not a success; people in shops refused to serve her and other performers due to the gay characters in the play.

Paired on shared wording: people, success.

Also on the record

1. She had no formal training but later worked at the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company.
2. Her first big success came in the BBC radio show Educating Archie as naughty schoolgirl Monica and later as the Brummie, "Marlene".
3. Her many film and television roles as a character actor were usually well received.
4. She reprised her Tony Award-winning performance of a lesbian soap opera star in The Killing of Sister George for the 1968 screen version and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture Actress in a Drama.

Other leading Tony winners with this card

• Alan Cumming — 1998 Best Actor in a Musical (Cabaret)
• Bert Lahr — 1964 Best Actor in a Musical (Foxy)
• Douglas Hodge — 2010 Best Actor in a Musical (La Cage aux Folles)
• Elaine May — 2019 Best Actress in a Play (The Waverly Gallery)
• Lindsay Duncan — 2002 Best Actress in a Play (Private Lives)
• Patti LuPone — 1980 Best Actress in a Musical (Evita); 2008 Best Actress in a Musical (Gypsy)
• Ralph Bellamy — 1958 Best Actor in a Play (Sunrise at Campobello)
• Tony Shalhoub — 2018 Best Actor in a Musical (The Band's Visit)

FAQ

What is Beryl Reid's birth card?

The King of Clubs. June 17 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 Beryl Reid's dates come from?

Birth date 1919-06-17 is the day-precision date on Beryl Reid'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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