Mark Rylance's Birth Card: The 9 of Diamonds

In the record

Sir David Mark Rylance Waters (born 18 January 1960) is an English actor, playwright and theatre director. The birth-card coordinate for January 18 is the 9 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2008 Best Actor in a Play (Boeing-Boeing); 2011 Best Actor in a Play (Jerusalem) win.

Tony Award record (leading acting)

• 2008 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play — Boeing-Boeing as Robert Lambert
• 2011 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play — Jerusalem as Johnny "Rooster" Byron

The 9 of Diamonds coordinate

Mark Rylance's birthday maps to the 9 of Diamonds (The Universal Provider). 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 Mark Rylance. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You give in a way you can sustain, and you let someone give back.

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Mark Rylance in the public record

Known for his work on stage and screen, he has received numerous awards including an Academy Award, three BAFTAs, two Olivier Awards and three Tony Awards. In 2016 he was included in the Time 100 list of the world's most influential people. In 2017 he was made a knight by Queen Elizabeth II. Between 1995 and 2005 Rylance was the first artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe in London. He appeared in the West End productions of Much Ado About Nothing in 1994 and Jerusalem in 2010, winning the Olivier Award for Best Actor for both. He has also appeared on Broadway, winning three Tony Awards: two for Best Actor for Boeing Boeing in 2008 and Jerusalem in 2011, and one for Best Featured Actor for Twelfth Night in 2014. He was Tony-nominated for his roles in Richard III in 2014 and Farinelli and the King in 2017. Rylance's film roles include Prospero's Books (1991), Intimacy (2001), The Other Boleyn Girl (2008) and Steven Spielberg's Bridge of Spies (2015), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Mark Rylance (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 9♦, 5♦, Q♦, 4♥, 10♠, 4♠, 7♠, 2♣, K♣, J♦, 4♦, 2♠, 8♥, 6♣, 6♠, Q♥, 10♣, 8♦, 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

1. He subsequently collaborated with Spielberg, acting in The BFG (2016) and Ready Player One (2018).
2. He also appeared in Dunkirk (2017), The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020), Bones and All (2022) and The Outfit (2022).
3. On television, Rylance won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for his role as David Kelly in the 2005 Channel 4 drama The Government Inspector and for playing Thomas Cromwell in the 2015 BBC Two mini-series Wolf Hall; for the latter role, he received Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations.
4. He completed his portrayal of Cromwell in the 2024 sequel Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light.

Other leading Tony winners with this card

• Alexis Smith — 1972 Best Actress in a Musical (Follies)
• Brian Bedford — 1971 Best Actor in a Play (The School for Wives)
• Geoffrey Rush — 2009 Best Actor in a Play (Exit the King)
• Jefferson Mays — 2004 Best Actor in a Play (I Am My Own Wife)
• Joaquina Kalukango — 2022 Best Actress in a Musical (Paradise Square)
• Joshua Henry — 2026 Best Actor in a Musical (Ragtime)
• Katharine Cornell — 1948 Best Actress in a Play (Antony and Cleopatra)
• Robert Preston — 1958 Best Actor in a Musical (The Music Man); 1967 Best Actor in a Musical (I Do! I Do!)

FAQ

What is Mark Rylance's birth card?

The 9 of Diamonds. January 18 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 Mark Rylance's dates come from?

Birth date 1960-01-18 is the day-precision date on Mark Rylance'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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