Nathan Lane's Birth Card: The 9 of Spades

In the record

Nathan Lane (born Joseph Lane; February 3, 1956) is an American actor. The birth-card coordinate for February 3 is the 9 of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1996 Best Actor in a Musical (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum); 2001 Best Actor in a Musical (The Producers) win.

Tony Award record (leading acting)

• 1996 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical — A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum as Pseudolus
• 2001 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical — The Producers as Max Bialystock

The 9 of Spades coordinate

Nathan Lane's birthday maps to the 9 of Spades (The Idealistic Mind). 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 Nathan Lane. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You complete the hard stretch and put the lesson down.

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Nathan Lane in the public record

Known for his versatile roles on stage and screen, he has received numerous accolades including three Tony Awards, seven Drama Desk Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award, three Emmy Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Actor Award. Lane was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2006 and was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2008. In 2010, The New York Times hailed Lane as being "the greatest stage entertainer of the decade". Lane made his professional theatre debut in 1978 in an off-Broadway production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. During that time he also briefly appeared as one half of the comedy team of Stack and Lane, until he was cast in the 1982 Broadway revival of Noël Coward's Present Laughter directed by and starring George C. Scott. That led to an extensive career onstage, where he had a long friendship and fruitful collaboration with the playwright Terrence McNally which started in 1989 with the Manhattan Theater Club production of The Lisbon Traviata. He has won three Tony Awards: for Best Actor in a Musical for Pseudolus in Stephen Sondheim's A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1996) and Max Bialystock in Mel Brooks' The Producers (2001), and Best Featured Actor in a Play for Roy Cohn in Tony Kushner's Angels in America (2018).

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Nathan Lane (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♠, 6♠, K♥, 2♦, A♦, 6♣, 2♥, K♦, 6♥, 4♣, J♠, 8♣, 6♦, 4♠, 10♥, 10♦, 8♠, A♥. 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 was also Tony-nominated for Guys and Dolls (1992), The Nance (2013), The Front Page (2016), and Death of a Salesman (2026).
2. Among his 25 Broadway credits are The Man Who Came To Dinner (2000), The Frogs (2004), The Odd Couple (2005), Butley (2006), November (2008), Waiting for Godot (2009), The Addams Family (2010), It's Only a Play (2014), Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus (2019), and Pictures from Home (2023).
3. Lane has acted in films such as The Lion King (1994), The Birdcage (1996), Mouse Hunt (1997), The Producers (2005), and Beau Is Afraid (2023).
4. He received the Primetime Emmy Award for his role in the Hulu series Only Murders in the Building in 2022.

Other leading Tony winners with this card

• Paul Hartman — 1948 Best Actor in a Musical (Angel in the Wings)

FAQ

What is Nathan Lane's birth card?

The 9 of Spades. February 3 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 Nathan Lane's dates come from?

Birth date 1956-02-03 is the day-precision date on Nathan Lane'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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