Phylicia Rashad's Birth Card: The Jack of Clubs

In the record

Phylicia Rashad ( fil-ISH-ə rə-SHAHD; née Ayers-Allen; born June 19, 1948) is an American actress. The birth-card coordinate for June 19 is the Jack of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2004 Best Actress in a Play (A Raisin in the Sun) win.

Tony Award record (leading acting)

• 2004 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play — A Raisin in the Sun as Lena Younger

The Jack of Clubs coordinate

Phylicia Rashad's birthday maps to the Jack of Clubs (The Creative 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 Phylicia Rashad. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You bring a new angle and you let someone pressure-test it before it ships.

Live Jack of Clubs meaning page

Phylicia Rashad in the public record

She was most recently dean of the College of Fine Arts at Howard University before her three-year contract ended in May 2024. Known for her roles on stage and screen, she has received two Tony Awards as well as nominations for six Primetime Emmy Awards and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She is best known for her role as Clair Huxtable on the NBC sitcom The Cosby Show (1984–1992) which earned her two Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series nominations in 1985 and 1986. She also played Ruth Lucas on Cosby (1996–2000), and Brenda Glover in Little Bill (1999–2004). She was also Emmy-nominated for her roles in A Raisin in the Sun (2008) and This Is Us (2019–2021). On stage, Rashad became the first Black actress to win the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, for a revival of A Raisin in the Sun (2004). She won her second Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for Dominique Morisseau's Skeleton Crew (2022). Her other Broadway credits include Into the Woods (1988), Jelly's Last Jam (1993), Gem of the Ocean (2004), and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2008).

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Phylicia Rashad (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the King 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 Phylicia Rashad, and not a forecast of a Tony.

You hold emotional authority without hiding behind it. You carry authority in the realm of feeling—the maturity and depth to lead others emotionally and hold space with real strength. At your best, you command emotional situations with both power and authentic care, the steady presence people anchor to.

She is best known for her role as Clair Huxtable on the NBC sitcom The Cosby Show (1984–1992) which earned her two Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series nominations in 1985 and 1986.

Paired on shared wording: best, lead.

Also on the record

1. She has appeared in various films such as For Colored Girls (2010), Good Deeds (2012), Creed (2015), Creed II (2018), Creed III (2023), and The Beekeeper (2024).
2. She lent her voice to the Disney–Pixar animated film Soul (2020).
3. In the 21st century, she has directed revivals of three plays by August Wilson, in major theaters in Seattle, Princeton, New Jersey; and Los Angeles.
4. She also directed Purpose in its 2024–2025 run at the Helen Hayes Theater on Broadway.

Other leading Tony winners with this card

• Diahann Carroll — 1962 Best Actress in a Musical (No Strings)
• Ellen Burstyn — 1975 Best Actress in a Play (Same Time, Next Year)
• Jim Dale — 1980 Best Actor in a Musical (Barnum)
• Nancy Kelly — 1955 Best Actress in a Play (The Bad Seed)
• Ron Leibman — 1993 Best Actor in a Play (Angels in America: Millennium Approaches)
• Stephen Spinella — 1994 Best Actor in a Play (Angels in America: Perestroika)

FAQ

What is Phylicia Rashad's birth card?

The Jack of Clubs. June 19 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 Phylicia Rashad's dates come from?

Birth date 1948-06-19 is the day-precision date on Phylicia Rashad'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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