Len Cariou's Birth Card: The 7 of Hearts

In the record

Leonard Joseph Cariou (born September 30, 1939) is a Canadian actor, singer, and theatre director. The birth-card coordinate for September 30 is the 7 of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1979 Best Actor in a Musical (Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street) win.

Tony Award record (leading acting)

• 1979 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical — Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street as Sweeney Todd

The 7 of Hearts coordinate

Len Cariou's birthday maps to the 7 of Hearts (The Reflective 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 Len Cariou. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You look at love clearly without using analysis as a way not to feel it.

Live 7 of Hearts meaning page

Len Cariou in the public record

He gained prominence for his portrayal of Sweeney Todd in the original cast of Stephen Sondheim's musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979) alongside Angela Lansbury for which he won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. He also received Tony nominations for his roles in the Betty Comden and Adolph Green musical Applause (1970) and the Sondheim musical A Little Night Music (1973). Cariou is also known for his film roles in A Little Night Music (1977), The Four Seasons (1981), Thirteen Days (2000), About Schmidt (2002), Boynton Beach Club (2005), Flags of Our Fathers (2006), Prisoners (2013), and Spotlight (2015). He portrayed Franklin D. Roosevelt in the HBO film Into the Storm (2009) for which he received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. He also is known for his recurring television roles in Murder, She Wrote (1985–1992), Brotherhood (2005–2006), and Damages (2010). From 2010 to 2024, he co-starred as the patriarch Henry Reagan, NYPD Police Commissioner (retired), in the multi-generational CBS series Blue Bloods, a role he reprised in Boston Blue in 2026.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Len Cariou (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 7♥, A♠, 8♥, 5♠, 4♦, 10♥, 7♦, J♥, 9♣, 9♠, 2♥, K♥, K♦, 6♥, 4♣, 2♦. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast a Tony.

Other leading Tony winners with this card

• Joan Plowright — 1961 Best Actress in a Play (A Taste of Honey)
• Katrina Lenk — 2018 Best Actress in a Musical (The Band's Visit)
• Robert Goulet — 1968 Best Actor in a Musical (The Happy Time)

FAQ

What is Len Cariou's birth card?

The 7 of Hearts. September 30 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 Len Cariou's dates come from?

Birth date 1939-09-30 is the day-precision date on Len Cariou'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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