Cicely Tyson's Birth Card: The Queen of Hearts

In the record

Cecily Louise "Cicely" Tyson (December 19, 1924 – January 28, 2021) was an American actress. The birth-card coordinate for December 19 is the Queen of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2013 Best Actress in a Play (The Trip to Bountiful) win.

Tony Award record (leading acting)

• 2013 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play — The Trip to Bountiful as Carrie Watts

The Queen of Hearts coordinate

Cicely Tyson's birthday maps to the Queen of Hearts (The Devoted Nurturer). 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 Cicely Tyson. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You take care of people from presence, not from scanning for what they might need next.

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Cicely Tyson in the public record

In a career spanning seven decades, she portrayed complex and strong-willed African American women. She received several awards including three Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award and a Tony Award, as well as nominations for a BAFTA Award and a Golden Globe Award. She was awarded the Kennedy Center Honors in 2015, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016, and the Honorary Academy Award in 2018. Tyson garnered widespread attention and critical acclaim for her performance as a Black mother facing adversity in the dramatic film Sounder (1972), for which she was nominated for both the Academy Award for Best Actress and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. She also acted in films such as A Man Called Adam (1966), The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968), The River Niger (1976), Fried Green Tomatoes (1991), Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005), Because of Winn-Dixie (2005), The Help (2011) and Last Flag Flying (2017). On television, she broke barriers by taking a regular role on the CBS drama series East Side West Side (1963–1964). She won two Primetime Emmy Awards, her first for Best Lead Actress in a Drama for The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974), and her second for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie for Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (1994). She was Emmy-nominated for her roles in Roots (1977), King (1978), Sweet Justice (1995), A Lesson Before Dying (1999), The Trip to Bountiful (2013) and How to Get Away With Murder (2015–2020).

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

Where the record meets the cards

No sentence in the sourced record shows a clear echo of the published language for Q♥, 9♣, 10♠, 3♥, Q♣, A♥, 10♣, 8♦, K♠, A♣, 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

1. In addition to her screen career, Tyson starred on Broadway.
2. She made her debut in the Lonnie Coleman play Jolly's Progress (1959), followed by Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright (1962), Carry Me Back to Morningside Heights (1968) and The Corn Is Green (1983).
3. At age 88, she became the oldest winner for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her role in the revival of the Horton Foote play The Trip to Bountiful (2013).
4. She made her final Broadway appearance starring in the revival of The Gin Game (2016), opposite James Earl Jones.

Other leading Tony winners with this card

• Catherine Zeta-Jones — 2010 Best Actress in a Musical (A Little Night Music)
• Cherry Jones — 1995 Best Actress in a Play (The Heiress); 2005 Best Actress in a Play (Doubt)
• Natalia Makarova — 1983 Best Actress in a Musical (On Your Toes)

FAQ

What is Cicely Tyson's birth card?

The Queen of Hearts. December 19 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 Cicely Tyson's dates come from?

Birth date 1924-12-19 is the day-precision date on Cicely Tyson'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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