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Mercedes Ruehl's Birth Card: The 10 of Clubs
The Master 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
Mercedes J. The birth-card coordinate for February 28 is the 10 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1991 Best Actress in a Play (Lost in Yonkers) win.
Tony Award record (leading acting)
- 1991 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play — Lost in Yonkers as Bella Kurnitz
The 10 of Clubs coordinate
Mercedes Ruehl's birthday maps to the 10 of Clubs (The Master 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 Mercedes Ruehl. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You carry a finished body of knowledge and keep teaching from it.
Mercedes Ruehl in the public record
Ruehl ( ROOL; born February 28, 1948) is an American screen, stage, and television actress. She is the recipient of several accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Tony Award. Ruehl won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as video store owner and romantic interest in Terry Gilliam's fantasy comedy drama The Fisher King (1991). She also acted in the films The Warriors (1979), Heartburn (1986), 84 Charing Cross Road (1987), Big (1988), Married to the Mob (1988), Last Action Hero (1993), Indictment: The McMartin Trial (1995), Roseanna's Grave (1997), Gia (1998), The Minus Man (1999) and Hustlers (2019). On television, she had a recurring role as a radio station manager in the NBC sitcom Frasier from 1995 to 1996. On stage, she made her Broadway debut in the Herb Gardner play I'm Not Rappaport (1985). She won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her role in the Neil Simon drama Lost in Yonkers (1991). She reprised the role in the 1993 film of the same name.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Mercedes Ruehl (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 5 of Hearts
A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Mercedes Ruehl, and not a forecast of a Tony.
Cards in Mercedes Ruehl's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 10♣ — Birth Card: The Master Builder
- 4♠ — Karma — Environment: The Rigid Truth
- J♠ — Karma — Displacement: The Messenger of Truth
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 8♦ — Life Spread — Mercury
- K♠ — Life Spread — Venus
- 3♥ — Life Spread — Mars
- A♣ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- Q♣ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 10♠ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 3♦ — Life Spread — Pluto
- A♠ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- 5♣ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Dynamic Innovator
- 4♣ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Systematic Builder
- 5♥ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Restless Heart
- 7♥ — PRC Life Spread — Mars: The Reflective Heart
- 7♦ — PRC Life Spread — Jupiter: The Skeptical Investor
- 5♠ — PRC Life Spread — Saturn: The Restless Mind
- J♥ — PRC Life Spread — Uranus: The Romantic Messenger
- 9♣ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Humanitarian Builder
- 9♠ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Idealistic Mind
- 2♥ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Loving Partner
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.
Adaptability through emotional change and transition
She also acted in the films The Warriors (1979), Heartburn (1986), 84 Charing Cross Road (1987), Big (1988), Married to the Mob (1988), Last Action Hero (1993), Indictment: The McMartin Trial (1995), Roseanna's Grave (1997), Gia (1998), The Minus Man (1999) and Hustlers (2019).
Paired on relationship and feeling — the domain ♥ governs in this system. Markers in the record: married.
Also on the record
- She was further Tony-nominated for her performances in Michael Cristofer's The Shadow Box (1995) and Edward Albee's The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? (2002).
- She has also acted in Broadway productions of The Rose Tattoo (1995), The American Plan (2009), and Torch Song (2017).
Other leading Tony winners with this card
- Bernadette Peters — 1986 Best Actress in a Musical (Song and Dance); 1999 Best Actress in a Musical (Annie Get Your Gun)
- Carole Shelley — 1979 Best Actress in a Play (The Elephant Man)
- Claude Rains — 1951 Best Actor in a Play (Darkness at Noon)
- David Wayne — 1954 Best Actor in a Play (The Teahouse of the August Moon)
- Hugh Jackman — 2004 Best Actor in a Musical (The Boy from Oz)
- John Rubinstein — 1980 Best Actor in a Play (Children of a Lesser God)
- Jonathan Groff — 2024 Best Actor in a Musical (Merrily We Roll Along)
- Martin Short — 1999 Best Actor in a Musical (Little Me)
- Norbert Leo Butz — 2005 Best Actor in a Musical (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels); 2011 Best Actor in a Musical (Catch Me If You Can)
- Richard Burton — 1961 Best Actor in a Musical (Camelot)
- Tammy Grimes — 1970 Best Actress in a Play (Private Lives)
- Tommy Tune — 1983 Best Actor in a Musical (My One and Only)
- 3 more leading winners share this card.
FAQ
- What is Mercedes Ruehl's birth card?
- The 10 of Clubs. February 28 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 Mercedes Ruehl's dates come from?
- Birth date 1948-02-28 is the day-precision date on Mercedes Ruehl'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 (Q232933) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Mercedes Ruehl). Birth date 1948-02-28 is the Wikipedia person-page day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).