Diahann Carroll's Birth Card: The Jack of Clubs

In the record

Diahann Carroll ( dy-AN; born Carol Diann Johnson; July 17, 1935 – October 4, 2019) was an American actress, singer, model, and activist. The birth-card coordinate for July 17 is the Jack of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1962 Best Actress in a Musical (No Strings) win.

Tony Award record (leading acting)

• 1962 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical — No Strings as Barbara Woodruff

The Jack of Clubs coordinate

Diahann Carroll's birthday maps to the Jack of Clubs (The Creative Messenger). 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 Diahann Carroll. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You bring a new angle and you let someone pressure-test it before it ships.

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Diahann Carroll in the public record

Carroll was the recipient of numerous nominations and awards for her stage and screen performances, including a Tony Award in 1962, Golden Globe Award in 1968, an Academy Award nomination in 1974, and five Emmy Award nominations between 1963 and 2008. Carroll rose to prominence in some of the earliest major studio films to feature black casts during the Golden Age of Hollywood, including the classic movie musicals Carmen Jones (1954) and Porgy and Bess (1959). She received an Academy Award for Best Actress nomination for her title role in the romantic comedy-drama film Claudine (1974). Carroll's other notable film credits include Paris Blues (1961), The Split (1968), Eve's Bayou (1997), and Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters First 100 Years (1999). She starred in the title role in Julia (1968–1971), for which she received a Golden Globe Award for Best TV Star – Female. The series- in which Carroll played a nurse at a doctor's office at an aerospace company- was the first on American television to star a Black woman whose character was not a servant or slave. She played the role of diva Dominique Deveraux in the prime time soap opera Dynasty from 1984 to 1987. She also had roles in Naked City, A Different World, and Grey's Anatomy.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Diahann Carroll (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 J♣, 10♥, J♦, A♣, 2♥, 9♦, 7♠, 2♣, K♣, 4♥, 4♦, 2♠, 8♥, Q♣, 10♠, 5♣, 3♦, A♠, 7♥, 7♦, 5♠, J♥. 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. Carroll made her Broadway debut playing Ottilie Alias Violet in the musical House of Flowers (1954).
2. She became the first African American woman to win the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her role as Barbara Woodruff in the musical No Strings (1962).

Other leading Tony winners with this card

• Ellen Burstyn — 1975 Best Actress in a Play (Same Time, Next Year)
• Jim Dale — 1980 Best Actor in a Musical (Barnum)
• Nancy Kelly — 1955 Best Actress in a Play (The Bad Seed)
• Phylicia Rashad — 2004 Best Actress in a Play (A Raisin in the Sun)
• Ron Leibman — 1993 Best Actor in a Play (Angels in America: Millennium Approaches)
• Stephen Spinella — 1994 Best Actor in a Play (Angels in America: Perestroika)

FAQ

What is Diahann Carroll's birth card?

The Jack of Clubs. July 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 Diahann Carroll's dates come from?

Birth date 1935-07-17 is the day-precision date on Diahann Carroll'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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