James Earl Jones's Birth Card: The 10 of Diamonds

In the record

James Earl Jones (January 17, 1931 – September 9, 2024) was an American actor. The birth-card coordinate for January 17 is the 10 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1969 Best Actor in a Play (The Great White Hope); 1987 Best Actor in a Play (Fences) win.

Tony Award record (leading acting)

• 1969 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play — The Great White Hope as Jack Jefferson
• 1987 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play — Fences as Troy Maxson

The 10 of Diamonds coordinate

James Earl Jones'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 James Earl Jones. 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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James Earl Jones in the public record

A pioneer for Black actors in the entertainment industry, he was acclaimed for his performances on stage and screen. Jones is one of the few performers to achieve the EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony). He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1985 and was honored with the National Medal of Arts in 1992, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2002, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2009, and the Academy Honorary Award in 2011. Born in Arkabutla, Mississippi, Jones overcame a childhood stutter. A pre-med major in college, he served as an officer in the U.S. Army during the Korean War before pursuing a career in acting. His deep voice was praised as a "stirring basso profondo that has lent gravel and gravitas" to his projects. Jones made his Broadway debut in the play Sunrise at Campobello (1957) and gained fame starring in several productions with Shakespeare in the Park including Othello (1964), Coriolanus (1965), Hamlet (1972), and King Lear (1973).

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

Where the record meets the 7 of Clubs

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 James Earl Jones, and not a forecast of a Tony.

You take a claim apart until the usable piece is left, then you use it. Your mind is sharp, questioning, skeptical. You see through illusions and can identify patterns others miss. You're the critical thinker.

Jones acted in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2008), Driving Miss Daisy (2010–2011), You Can't Take It with You (2014), and The Gin Game (2015).

Paired on shared wording: miss, take. This line comes from the Result / Cosmic Reward position of the 10♦'s Life Spread.

Also on the record

1. For his roles on Broadway, Jones won two Tony Awards for Best Actor in a Play for playing a boxer in the Howard Sackler play The Great White Hope (1968) and a working class father in August Wilson's Fences (1987).
2. He was nominated for other Tonys for his roles as part of an elderly couple in On Golden Pond (2005) and as a former president in The Best Man (2012).
3. Jones acted in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2008), Driving Miss Daisy (2010–2011), You Can't Take It with You (2014), and The Gin Game (2015).
4. He received a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2017.

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)
• Glenda Jackson — 2018 Best Actress in a Play (Three Tall Women)
• 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 James Earl Jones's birth card?

The 10 of Diamonds. January 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 James Earl Jones's dates come from?

Birth date 1931-01-17 is the day-precision date on James Earl Jones'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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