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Jonathan Pryce's Birth Card: The 3 of Spades
The Sorrowful Truth
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
Sir Jonathan Pryce (born John Price; 1 June 1947) is a Welsh actor. The birth-card coordinate for June 1 is the 3 of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1991 Best Actor in a Musical (Miss Saigon) win.
Tony Award record (leading acting)
- 1991 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical — Miss Saigon as The Engineer
The 3 of Spades coordinate
Jonathan Pryce's birthday maps to the 3 of Spades (The Sorrowful Truth). 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 Jonathan Pryce. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You stay with the hard feeling long enough to learn it, then you let the day continue.
Jonathan Pryce in the public record
He is known for his performances on stage and in film and television. He has received numerous awards, including two Tony Awards and two Laurence Olivier Awards as well as nominations for an Academy Award, three BAFTA Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and six Emmy Awards. He was honoured with a knighthood for services to drama in 2021. After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, he began his career as a stage actor in the early 1970s. His work in theatre includes an Olivier Award–winning performance in the title role of the Royal Court Theatre's Hamlet in 1980 and as The Engineer in the stage musical Miss Saigon in 1990. On the Broadway stage he earned two Tony Awards—the first for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his Broadway debut role in Comedians (1977), the second for Best Actor in a Musical for the Broadway transfer of the musical Miss Saigon (1991). His breakthrough screen performance was in Terry Gilliam's satirical dystopian black comedy film Brazil (1985). Critically lauded for his versatility, Pryce has appeared in big-budget films including Evita (1996), Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and Pirates of the Caribbean series (2003–2007), as well as independent films such as Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), The Age of Innocence (1993), Carrington (1995), The New World (2005) and The Wife (2017).
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Jonathan Pryce (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the cards
Cards in Jonathan Pryce's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 3♠ — Birth Card: The Sorrowful Truth
- J♦ — Karma — Environment: The Successful Messenger
- 6♦ — Karma — Displacement: The Generous Provider
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 7♣ — Life Spread — Venus
- 5♦ — Life Spread — Mars
- Q♠ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- J♣ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 9♦ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 7♠ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 2♣ — Life Spread — Pluto
- K♣ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
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.
No sentence in the sourced record shows a clear echo of the published language for 3♠, J♦, 6♦, 9♥, 7♦, 7♣, 5♦, Q♠, J♣, 9♦, 7♠, 2♣, K♣. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast a Tony.
Also on the record
- He earned his first Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of Pope Francis in The Two Popes (2019).
- For his work on television, he received four Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his portrayals of Henry Kravis in the HBO film Barbarians at the Gate (1993), a wealthy widower in the BBC series Return to Cranford (2010), Prince Philip in the Netflix series The Crown, and as a retired senior MI5 officer in the Apple TV+ series Slow Horses.
- Pryce also played Thomas Wolsey in the BBC limited series Wolf Hall (2015), the High Sparrow in the HBO series Game of Thrones (2015–2016) and Sir Stuart Strange in the series Taboo (2017).
Other leading Tony winners with this card
- Bryan Cranston — 2014 Best Actor in a Play (All the Way); 2019 Best Actor in a Play (Network)
- Cleavon Little — 1970 Best Actor in a Musical (Purlie)
- Donna Murphy — 1994 Best Actress in a Musical (Passion); 1996 Best Actress in a Musical (The King and I)
- Melvyn Douglas — 1960 Best Actor in a Play (The Best Man)
- Michael Moriarty — 1974 Best Actor in a Play (Find Your Way Home)
- Nigel Hawthorne — 1991 Best Actor in a Play (Shadowlands)
- Walter Slezak — 1955 Best Actor in a Musical (Fanny)
FAQ
- What is Jonathan Pryce's birth card?
- The 3 of Spades. June 1 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 Jonathan Pryce's dates come from?
- Birth date 1947-06-01 is the day-precision date on Jonathan Pryce'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 (Q312702) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Jonathan Pryce). Birth date 1947-06-01 is the Wikipedia person-page day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).