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Boyd Gaines's Birth Card: The 8 of Diamonds
The Businessman
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
Boyd Payne Gaines (born May 11, 1953) is an American actor. The birth-card coordinate for May 11 is the 8 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1994 Best Actor in a Musical (She Loves Me) win.
Tony Award record (leading acting)
- 1994 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical — She Loves Me as Georg Nowack
The 8 of Diamonds coordinate
Boyd Gaines's birthday maps to the 8 of Diamonds (The Businessman). 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 Boyd Gaines. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You run the money system in the open and you can explain the call.
Boyd Gaines in the public record
During his career, he has won four Tony Awards and three Drama Desk Awards. Gaines is best known for playing Mark Royer on One Day at a Time (1981–1984). He was born in Atlanta, Georgia, to James and Ida Gaines. His early theatre training began at the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts at Allan Hancock College in Santa Maria, California, where his talent and rich baritone voice were showcased in leading roles in plays, musicals, and opera. He attended the Juilliard School as a member of the Drama Division's Group 8 (1975–1979). Gaines has appeared in a number of films and television shows, including Fame, Frasier, L.A. Law, Law & Order, and Piece of Cake, but his most notable television role was as Mark Royer, who married Valerie Bertinelli's Barbara Cooper on TV's One Day at a Time. Gaines appeared in the final three seasons of the show.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Boyd Gaines (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the cards
Cards in Boyd Gaines's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 8♦ — Birth Card: The Businessman
- 7♣ — Karma — Environment: The Analytical Creator
- Q♠ — Karma — Displacement: The Wise Guide
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- K♠ — Life Spread — Mercury
- A♣ — Life Spread — Mars
- 10♠ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 5♣ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 3♦ — Life Spread — Neptune
- A♠ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 7♥ — 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 8♦, 7♣, Q♠, 3♥, Q♣, A♥, K♠, A♣, 10♠, 5♣, 3♦, A♠, 7♥, 7♦, 5♠. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast a Tony.
Also on the record
- He also portrayed Coach Brackett in the 1981 movie Porky's, Lt.
- Ring in the 1986 film Heartbreak Ridge and Jason in The Sure Thing (1985).
- Gaines is a voice actor, and is credited with recording several audiobooks.
- He has appeared on the Broadway stage, in both musicals and plays, for which he has won four Tony Awards.
Other leading Tony winners with this card
- Alan Bates — 1973 Best Actor in a Play (Butley); 2002 Best Actor in a Play (Fortune's Fool)
- David Alvarez — 2009 Best Actor in a Musical (Billy Elliot the Musical)
- Fritz Weaver — 1970 Best Actor in a Play (Child's Play)
- Hal Holbrook — 1966 Best Actor in a Play (Mark Twain Tonight!)
- Janet McTeer — 1997 Best Actress in a Play (A Doll's House)
- Judd Hirsch — 1986 Best Actor in a Play (I'm Not Rappaport); 1992 Best Actor in a Play (Conversations with My Father)
- Michael Crawford — 1988 Best Actor in a Musical (The Phantom of the Opera)
- Natasha Richardson — 1998 Best Actress in a Musical (Cabaret)
- Patricia Routledge — 1968 Best Actress in a Musical (Darling of the Day)
- Pauline Collins — 1989 Best Actress in a Play (Shirley Valentine)
- Paulo Szot — 2008 Best Actor in a Musical (Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific)
- Phil Silvers — 1952 Best Actor in a Musical (Top Banana); 1972 Best Actor in a Musical (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum)
- 1 more leading winners share this card.
FAQ
- What is Boyd Gaines's birth card?
- The 8 of Diamonds. May 11 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 Boyd Gaines's dates come from?
- Birth date 1953-05-11 is the day-precision date on Boyd Gaines'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 (Q895921) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Boyd Gaines). Birth date 1953-05-11 is the Wikipedia person-page day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).