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Paul Scofield's Birth Card: The 6 of Diamonds
The Generous Provider
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
David Paul Scofield (21 January 1922 – 19 March 2008) was an English actor. The birth-card coordinate for January 21 is the 6 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1962 Best Actor in a Play (A Man for All Seasons) win.
Tony Award record (leading acting)
- 1962 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play — A Man for All Seasons as Sir Thomas More
The 6 of Diamonds coordinate
Paul Scofield's birthday maps to the 6 of Diamonds (The Generous 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 Paul Scofield. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You move resources toward other people without erasing your own claim.
Paul Scofield in the public record
During a six-decade career, Scofield achieved the Triple Crown of Acting, winning an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Tony Award for his work. Completing the feat in just seven years, no actor has achieved the Triple Crown faster than Scofield. He is celebrated for his reputation as one of the greatest Shakespearean performers. He declined the honour of a knighthood on three separate occasions (in 1968, 1974, and 1987), but was appointed CBE in 1956 and became a CH in 2001. Scofield received the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for portraying Sir Thomas More in the Broadway production of A Man for All Seasons (1962). Four years later, he won the Academy Award for Best Actor when he reprised the role in the 1966 film adaptation, making him one of eleven to receive a Tony and Academy Award for the same role. He received the Primetime Emmy Award for Male of the Species (1969). Scofield garnered acclaim for his roles in films such as The Train (1964), King Lear (1971), A Delicate Balance (1973), Henry V (1989), and Hamlet (1990).
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Paul Scofield (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the cards
Cards in Paul Scofield's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 6♦ — Birth Card: The Generous Provider
- 3♠ — Karma — Environment: The Sorrowful Truth
- 9♣ — Karma — Displacement: The Humanitarian Builder
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 4♠ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 10♥ — Life Spread — Venus
- 10♦ — Life Spread — Mars
- 8♠ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- Q♦ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 5♥ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 3♣ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- A♥ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Emotional Pioneer
- 3♥ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Creative Heart
- A♦ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Wealth Pioneer
- 9♥ — PRC Life Spread — Uranus: The Compassionate Idealist
- 7♣ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Analytical Creator
- 5♦ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Dynamic Entrepreneur
- Q♠ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Wise Guide
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 6♦, 3♠, 9♣, A♥, 3♥, A♦, 4♠, 10♥, 10♦, 8♠, Q♦, 5♥, 3♣, 9♥, 7♣, 5♦, Q♠. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast a Tony.
Also on the record
- He portrayed Mark Van Doren in the historical drama Quiz Show (1994), for which he earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
- For his role as Thomas Danforth in the film adaptation of The Crucible (1996) he received the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.
Other leading Tony winners with this card
- Brian Dennehy — 1999 Best Actor in a Play (Death of a Salesman); 2003 Best Actor in a Play (Long Day's Journey into Night)
- Caissie Levy — 2026 Best Actress in a Musical (Ragtime)
- George Rose — 1976 Best Actor in a Musical (My Fair Lady); 1986 Best Actor in a Musical (The Mystery of Edwin Drood)
- Gertrude Berg — 1959 Best Actress in a Play (A Majority of One)
FAQ
- What is Paul Scofield's birth card?
- The 6 of Diamonds. January 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 Paul Scofield's dates come from?
- Birth date 1922-01-21 is the day-precision date on Paul Scofield'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 (Q223988) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Paul Scofield). Birth date 1922-01-21 is the Wikipedia person-page day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).