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Jane Lapotaire's Birth Card: The 5 of Hearts
The Restless Heart
A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict a Tony Award.
In the record
Jane Elizabeth Marie Lapotaire (née Burgess; 26 December 1944 – 5 March 2026) was an English actress from Suffolk. The birth-card coordinate for December 26 is the 5 of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1981 Best Actress in a Play (Piaf) win.
Tony Award record (leading acting)
- 1981 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play — Piaf as Édith Piaf
The 5 of Hearts coordinate
Jane Lapotaire's birthday maps to the 5 of Hearts (The Restless Heart). 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 Jane Lapotaire. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You let love change shape without using motion as a way out of being seen.
Jane Lapotaire in the public record
Her performance in the title role of Marie Curie (1977) first brought her to wide attention. In 1978, she performed the title role Édith Piaf for Pam Gems's play Piaf for the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon and in London. Two years later, the show moved to Broadway where Lapotaire won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. In 2013, she played the Duchess of Gloucester in Richard II with David Tennant in the title role. This was followed in 2015 by a role as Queen Isobel in Henry V. Lapotaire won the Laurence Olivier Award for Actress of the Year in a New Play for Piaf in 1979 and was nominated for the Actress of the Year Award in 1990 for Shadowlands. Additionally, Lapotaire was twice nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress for Marie Curie and Sea Tales: The Return (1977) and Blind Justice (1988). Lapotaire also wrote three memoirs.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Jane Lapotaire (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 4 of Diamonds
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 Jane Lapotaire, and not a forecast of a Tony.
Cards in Jane Lapotaire's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 5♥ — Birth Card: The Restless Heart
- 5♣ — Karma — Environment: The Dynamic Innovator
- 4♦ — Karma — Displacement: The Financial Foundation Builder
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 3♠ — Life Spread — Venus
- 9♥ — Life Spread — Mars
- 7♣ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- Q♠ — Life Spread — Uranus
- J♣ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 7♠ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- 5♦ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Dynamic Entrepreneur
- 3♣ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Creative Communicator
- 9♦ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Universal Provider
- 2♣ — PRC Life Spread — Saturn: The Collaborative Builder
- K♣ — PRC Life Spread — Uranus: The Master Leader
- J♦ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Successful Messenger
- 4♥ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Emotional Foundation Builder
Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.
Strong financial planning and foresight
In 1978, she performed the title role Édith Piaf for Pam Gems's play Piaf for the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon and in London.
Paired on value and commerce — the domain ♦ governs in this system. Markers in the record: company.
Also on the record
- Lapotaire was married twice, latterly to director Roland Joffé.
- Their son is the screenwriter and director Rowan Joffé.
Other leading Tony winners with this card
- Steve Kazee — 2012 Best Actor in a Musical (Once)
FAQ
- What is Jane Lapotaire's birth card?
- The 5 of Hearts. December 26 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 Jane Lapotaire's dates come from?
- Birth date 1944-12-26 is the day-precision date on Jane Lapotaire'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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Sources: Tony Awards (tonyawards.com) + Wikipedia leading-acting lists + Wikidata CC0 (Q445808) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Jane Lapotaire). Birth date 1944-12-26 is the Wikipedia person-page day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).