Glenda Jackson's Birth Card: The 10 of Diamonds

In the record

Glenda May Jackson (9 May 1936 – 15 June 2023) was an English actress and politician. The birth-card coordinate for May 9 is the 10 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2018 Best Actress in a Play (Three Tall Women) win.

Tony Award record (leading acting)

• 2018 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play — Three Tall Women as A

The 10 of Diamonds coordinate

Glenda Jackson's birthday maps to the 10 of Diamonds (The Wealthy Master). 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 Glenda Jackson. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You build enough and keep it structured so it actually holds.

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Glenda Jackson in the public record

Over the course of her distinguished career she received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards, three Emmy Awards and a Tony Award, making her one of the few performers to achieve the "Triple Crown of Acting." Her other accolades include two BAFTA Awards and a Golden Globe Award. A member of the Labour Party, she served continuously as a Member of Parliament (MP) for 23 years, first for Hampstead and Highgate from 1992 to 2010, and then, following boundary changes, for Hampstead and Kilburn from 2010 to 2015. Jackson won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice, for the romance films Women in Love (1969) and A Touch of Class (1973), but she did not appear in person to collect either due to work commitments. She also won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971). Her other notable films include Mary, Queen of Scots (1971), Hedda (1975), The Incredible Sarah (1976), House Calls (1978), Stevie (1978) and Hopscotch (1980). She won two Primetime Emmy Awards for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth I in the BBC series Elizabeth R (1971). She received both the BAFTA Award and International Emmy Award for her performance in Elizabeth Is Missing (2019). She studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and made her Broadway theatre debut in Marat/Sade (1966).

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

Where the record meets the 9 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 Glenda Jackson, and not a forecast of a Tony.

You stay kind without picking up what is not yours. You're wired for a love that extends beyond the personal—compassion for people, causes, and the world. You feel others' pain as your own and are moved to ease it. At your best, you carry deep wisdom about what to hold and what to release.

Jackson won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice, for the romance films Women in Love (1969) and A Touch of Class (1973), but she did not appear in person to collect either due to work commitments.

Paired on shared wording: best, love. This line comes from the Pluto position of the 10♦'s Life Spread.

Also on the record

1. She received five Laurence Olivier Award nominations for her West End theatre roles in Stevie (1977), Antony and Cleopatra (1979), Rose (1980), Strange Interlude (1984) and King Lear (2016), the last being her first role after a 25-year absence from acting, which she reprised on Broadway in 2019.
2. On Broadway, she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her role in the revival of Edward Albee's Three Tall Women (2018) and received nominations for her work in Marat/Sade (1966), Rose (1981), Strange Interlude (1985), and Macbeth (1988).
3. Jackson transitioned her career to politics from 1992 to 2015, and was elected MP for Hampstead and Highgate at the 1992 general election.
4. She was a junior transport minister from 1997 to 1999 during the first Blair ministry; she later became critical of Tony Blair.

Other leading Tony winners with this card

• Bill Irwin — 2005 Best Actor in a Play (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)
• Dolores Gray — 1954 Best Actress in a Musical (Carnival in Flanders)
• James Earl Jones — 1969 Best Actor in a Play (The Great White Hope); 1987 Best Actor in a Play (Fences)
• Jessica Tandy — 1948 Best Actress in a Play (A Streetcar Named Desire); 1978 Best Actress in a Play (The Gin Game); 1983 Best Actress in a Play (Foxfire)
• John Wood — 1976 Best Actor in a Play (Travesties)
• Lily Tomlin — 1986 Best Actress in a Play (The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe)

FAQ

What is Glenda Jackson's birth card?

The 10 of Diamonds. May 9 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 Glenda Jackson's dates come from?

Birth date 1936-05-09 is the day-precision date on Glenda Jackson'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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