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Mary-Louise Parker's Birth Card: The Jack of Diamonds
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
Mary-Louise Parker (born August 2, 1964) is an American actress. The birth-card coordinate for August 2 is the Jack of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2001 Best Actress in a Play (Proof); 2020 Best Actress in a Play (The Sound Inside) win.
Tony Award record (leading acting)
- 2001 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play — Proof as Catherine Llewellyn
- 2020 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play — The Sound Inside as Bella Baird
The Jack of Diamonds coordinate
Mary-Louise Parker'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 Mary-Louise Parker. 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.
Mary-Louise Parker in the public record
She is known for her roles on stage and screen and has received various accolades including two Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award and two Tony Awards. Parker made her film debut in Signs of Life (1989) and came to prominence for film roles in Grand Canyon (1991), Fried Green Tomatoes (1991), The Client (1994), Bullets Over Broadway (1994), A Place for Annie (1994), Boys on the Side (1995), The Portrait of a Lady (1996), and The Maker (1997). Her later film appearances included roles in The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008), Red (2010), R.I.P.D. (2013), and Red 2 (2013). On television, she portrayed Harper Pitt in the acclaimed HBO television miniseries Angels in America (2003) for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie. She was Emmy-nominated for her roles as Amy Gardner in the NBC series The West Wing (2001–2006), Nancy Botwin in the Showtime series Weeds (2005–2012), and Zenia in the television film The Robber Bride (2007). She took a recurring role in the NBC series The Blacklist (2014) and played Roma Guy in the miniseries When We Rise (2017). On stage, Parker has earned two Tony Awards for Best Actress in a Play for her roles in David Auburn's Proof (2001) and Adam Rapp's The Sound Inside (2020). She was Tony-nominated for her roles in Prelude to a Kiss (1990), Reckless (2005), and How I Learned to Drive (2022).
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Mary-Louise Parker (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the cards
Cards in Mary-Louise Parker's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- J♦ — Birth Card: The Successful Messenger
- J♣ — Karma — Environment: The Creative Messenger
- 3♠ — Karma — Displacement: The Sorrowful Truth
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 4♥ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 4♦ — Life Spread — Venus
- 2♠ — Life Spread — Mars
- 8♥ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 6♣ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 6♠ — Life Spread — Uranus
- Q♥ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 10♣ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 8♦ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
The planetary ruling card for this birthday is the birth card itself, J♦, so it adds no further cards to the path.
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♠, 4♥, 4♦, 2♠, 8♥, 6♣, 6♠, Q♥, 10♣, 8♦. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast a Tony.
Also on the record
- As a writer, Parker has contributed articles to Esquire magazine since 2007.
- She published her memoir, Dear Mr.
- You, in 2015.
Other leading Tony winners with this card
- Ethel Merman — 1951 Best Actress in a Musical (Call Me Madam)
- Gertrude Lawrence — 1952 Best Actress in a Musical (The King and I)
- Gregory Hines — 1992 Best Actor in a Musical (Jelly's Last Jam)
- Harvey Fierstein — 1983 Best Actor in a Play (Torch Song Trilogy); 2003 Best Actor in a Musical (Hairspray)
- John Lloyd Young — 2006 Best Actor in a Musical (Jersey Boys)
- Lesley Manville — 2026 Best Actress in a Play (Oedipus)
- Thelma Ritter — 1958 Best Actress in a Musical (New Girl in Town)
- Tracy Letts — 2013 Best Actor in a Play (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)
FAQ
- What is Mary-Louise Parker's birth card?
- The Jack of Diamonds. August 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 Mary-Louise Parker's dates come from?
- Birth date 1964-08-02 is the day-precision date on Mary-Louise Parker'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 (Q229957) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Mary-Louise Parker). Birth date 1964-08-02 is the Wikipedia person-page day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).