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Maureen Stapleton's Birth Card: The 9 of Clubs
The Humanitarian Builder
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
Lois Maureen Stapleton (June 21, 1925 – March 13, 2006) was an American actress. The birth-card coordinate for June 21 is the 9 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1971 Best Actress in a Play (The Gingerbread Lady) win.
Tony Award record (leading acting)
- 1971 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play — The Gingerbread Lady as Evy Meara
The 9 of Clubs coordinate
Maureen Stapleton's birthday maps to the 9 of Clubs (The Humanitarian Builder). 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 Maureen Stapleton. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You let a used-up framework go and keep the part that still works.
Maureen Stapleton in the public record
She received numerous accolades, becoming one of the few actors to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting, winning an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award and two Tony Awards. She also received a BAFTA Award and a Golden Globe Award, as well as a nomination for a Grammy Award. Stapleton started her career in theater with her Broadway debut in The Playboy of the Western World (1946). She went on to receive two Tony Awards for Best Featured Actress in a Play for The Rose Tattoo (1951) and for Best Actress in a Play for The Gingerbread Lady (1971). She was Tony-nominated for her roles in The Cold Wind And The Warm (1959), Toys in the Attic (1960), Plaza Suite (1971) and The Little Foxes (1981). For her portrayal of Emma Goldman in the historical epic film Reds (1981), she received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She was also Oscar-nominated for her roles in Lonelyhearts (1958), Airport (1970) and Interiors (1978). During her career, Stapleton acted in films such as Bye Bye Birdie (1963), Plaza Suite (1971), The Fan (1981), Cocoon (1985), The Money Pit (1986) and Nuts (1987).
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Maureen Stapleton (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the cards
Cards in Maureen Stapleton's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 9♣ — Birth Card: The Humanitarian Builder
- 6♦ — Karma — Environment: The Generous Provider
- Q♥ — Karma — Displacement: The Devoted Nurturer
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 2♥ — Life Spread — Venus
- K♦ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 6♥ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 4♣ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 2♦ — Life Spread — Neptune
- J♠ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 8♣ — 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 9♣, 6♦, Q♥, 9♠, 6♠, K♥, 2♥, K♦, 6♥, 4♣, 2♦, J♠, 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
- On television, Stapleton played a variety of roles including in the television film Among the Paths to Eden (1967), for which she won Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Drama.
- She was Emmy-nominated for her roles in Queen of the Stardust Ballroom (1975), The Gathering (1977), B.L.
- Stryker (1989), Miss Rose White (1992) and Road to Avonlea (1995).
- She received a Grammy Award nomination for narrating To Kill a Mockingbird in 1975.
Other leading Tony winners with this card
- Al Pacino — 1977 Best Actor in a Play (The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel)
- Anthony LaPaglia — 1998 Best Actor in a Play (A View from the Bridge)
- Carol Channing — 1964 Best Actress in a Musical (Hello, Dolly!)
- Cliff Gorman — 1972 Best Actor in a Play (Lenny)
- Helen Gallagher — 1971 Best Actress in a Musical (No, No, Nanette)
- Judi Dench — 1999 Best Actress in a Play (Amy's View)
- Judy Holliday — 1957 Best Actress in a Musical (Bells Are Ringing)
- Phyllis Frelich — 1980 Best Actress in a Play (Children of a Lesser God)
- Stephen Dillane — 2000 Best Actor in a Play (The Real Thing)
FAQ
- What is Maureen Stapleton's birth card?
- The 9 of Clubs. June 21 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 Maureen Stapleton's dates come from?
- Birth date 1925-06-21 is the day-precision date on Maureen Stapleton'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 (Q230841) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Maureen Stapleton). Birth date 1925-06-21 is the Wikipedia person-page day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).