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Lesley Manville's Birth Card: The Jack of Diamonds

2026 Best Actress in a Play (Oedipus)

Born March 12, 1956

The Successful Messenger

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

Lesley Ann Manville (born 12 March 1956) is an English actress. The birth-card coordinate for March 12 is the Jack of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2026 Best Actress in a Play (Oedipus) win.

Tony Award record (leading acting)

The Jack of Diamonds coordinate

Lesley Manville's birthday maps to the Jack of Diamonds (The Successful Messenger). 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 Lesley Manville. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You try a new approach to value and you finish enough of it to know if it works.

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Lesley Manville in the public record

Known for her performances on stage and screen, her accolades include a Tony Award and two Laurence Olivier Awards, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award, two British Academy Film Awards, five British Academy Television Awards, a Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award. She has acted in eight of Mike Leigh's films, including Grown-Ups (1980), High Hopes (1988), Secrets & Lies (1996), Topsy-Turvy (1999), All or Nothing (2002), Vera Drake (2004), Another Year (2010) and Mr. Turner (2014). For her role in the Paul Thomas Anderson romance drama Phantom Thread (2017) she was nominated for an Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress. She has also acted in the films Dance with a Stranger (1985), High Season (1987), Maleficent (2014), Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019), Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (2022) and Queer (2024). On television, she acted in Emmerdale Farm (1975–1976) and Cranford (2007). She garnered five British Academy Television Award nominations for her roles in River (2015), Mum (2016–19), Sherwood (2022–24) and The Crown (2022–23).

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

Where the record meets the cards

Cards in Lesley Manville's fixed path

Birth card and karma

Life Spread (Mercury → 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 J♦, J♣, 3♠, Q♥, 9♣, 10♠, 4♥, 4♦, 2♠, 8♥, 6♣, 6♠, 10♣, 8♦, K♠, 3♥, A♣, Q♣, 5♣, 3♦. 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 nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her portrayal of Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon in the Netflix historical drama series The Crown.
  2. A prolific stage performer, she has won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress twice for Ghosts (2014) and Oedipus (2025).
  3. Manville also won a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for the latter when she reprised her performance on Broadway (2026).

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FAQ

What is Lesley Manville's birth card?
The Jack of Diamonds. March 12 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 Lesley Manville's dates come from?
Birth date 1956-03-12 is the day-precision date on Lesley Manville'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 (Q444410) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Lesley Manville). Birth date 1956-03-12 is the Wikipedia person-page day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).