Joanna Gleason's Birth Card: The 2 of Spades

In the record

Joanna Hall Gleason Sarandon (born June 2, 1950) is a Canadian actress, known for her performances in theatrical musicals and plays, and on film and television. The birth-card coordinate for June 2 is the 2 of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1988 Best Actress in a Musical (Into the Woods) win.

Tony Award record (leading acting)

• 1988 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical — Into the Woods as The Baker's Wife

The 2 of Spades coordinate

Joanna Gleason's birthday maps to the 2 of Spades (The Skeptical Partner). 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 Joanna Gleason. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You hold two pressures at once and still make a call that can live in the world.

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Joanna Gleason in the public record

In theatre, Gleason originated the role of the Baker's Wife in Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Into the Woods on Broadway, for which she won the Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical in 1988. She also received Tony nominations for her performances in A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1985) and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (2005). Her notable film appearances include supporting roles in Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) and Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), and Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights (1997). On television she has appeared in ER, Friends, The West Wing, The Good Wife and The Affair. Gleason is the daughter of Monty and Marilyn Hall. By the time of her birth, her father was working for Toronto radio stations and had changed his name from "Halparin" to "Hall". He later started a television career and went on to fame as host of Let's Make a Deal. Hall graduated from Beverly Hills High School (BHHS) in 1968.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Joanna Gleason (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 2♠, K♣, 6♠, 8♥, 7♥, 7♠, 6♣, Q♥, 10♣, 8♦, K♠, 3♥, A♣, Q♣. 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. She was in the school's productions of The Music Man, The Mikado, The Grass Harp, and The Madwoman of Chaillot.
2. In high school, Gleason received acting instruction from John Ingle, later known as Edward Quartermaine on General Hospital, who taught at BHHS from 1955 to 1985.
3. She continued her education at UCLA, then Occidental College, from which she graduated.
4. Gleason has been a teacher herself, holding classes and workshops all over the country.

Other leading Tony winners with this card

• Audrey Hepburn — 1954 Best Actress in a Play (Ondine)
• Judith Anderson — 1948 Best Actress in a Play (Medea)
• Ruth Brown — 1989 Best Actress in a Musical (Black and Blue)
• Simon Russell Beale — 2022 Best Actor in a Play (The Lehman Trilogy)

FAQ

What is Joanna Gleason's birth card?

The 2 of Spades. June 2 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 Joanna Gleason's dates come from?

Birth date 1950-06-02 is the day-precision date on Joanna Gleason'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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