Douglas Hodge's Birth Card: The King of Clubs

In the record

Douglas William Hodge (born 25 February 1960) is an English actor, director and musician. The birth-card coordinate for February 25 is the King of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2010 Best Actor in a Musical (La Cage aux Folles) win.

Tony Award record (leading acting)

• 2010 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical — La Cage aux Folles as Albin

The King of Clubs coordinate

Douglas Hodge'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 Douglas Hodge. 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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Douglas Hodge in the public record

He has had an extensive career in theatre, as well as film and television where he has appeared in Robin Hood (2010), Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return and Diana (both 2013), Penny Dreadful (2016), Catastrophe (2018), Joker and Lost in Space (both 2019), and The Great (2020–2023). Douglas William Hodge was born on 25 February 1960 in Plymouth, Devon. When he was young, his family moved to Wigmore, Gillingham, Kent. He attended Fairview Primary School and The Howard School in Rainham, Kent. He was awarded a position as student at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), in London, but was not happy and left before graduating. This never affected his desire to be an actor. Hodge has acted in plays by Harold Pinter, including No Man's Land at the Comedy Theatre in February 1993; Moonlight at the Almeida Theatre in September 1993; A Kind of Alaska,The Lover; The Collection at the Donmar Warehouse in May 1998; as Jerry in Betrayal at the Royal National Theatre's Lyttelton Theatre, in November 1998; and as Aston in The Caretaker at the Comedy Theatre in November 2000, co-starring Michael Gambon (Davies) and Rupert Graves (Mick), directed by Patrick Marber – for which he was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. For the National Theatre in May 1994 Hodge played the title role in Phyllida Lloyd's Olivier Theatre staging of Shakespeare's Pericles and Al in Stephen Poliakoff's Blinded by the Sun directed by Ron Daniels at the Cottesloe Theatre in May 1997.

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

Where the record meets the 4 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 Douglas Hodge, and not a forecast of a Tony.

Building reliable emotional foundations and trust

When he was young, his family moved to Wigmore, Gillingham, Kent.

Paired on relationship and feeling — the domain ♥ governs in this system. Markers in the record: family. This line comes from the Venus position of the K♣'s Life Spread.

Also on the record

1. In 2002, Hodge played Leontes in an RSC revival of The Winter's Tale at the Roundhouse.
2. In April 2003 he portrayed Andrei in Michael Blakemore's revival of Chekhov's Three Sisters at the Playhouse Theatre.
3. In 2004, he made his Royal Court debut as Barry in Joe Penhall's study of entrapment journalism Dumb Show, directed by Terry Johnson.
4. Hodge's directorial debut came in 2004, at the Oxford Playhouse in a double bill of The Dumb Waiter and Other Pieces.

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)
• Beryl Reid — 1967 Best Actress in a Play (The Killing of Sister George)
• 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 Douglas Hodge's birth card?

The King of Clubs. February 25 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 Douglas Hodge's dates come from?

Birth date 1960-02-25 is the day-precision date on Douglas Hodge'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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