Sada Thompson's Birth Card: The 10 of Hearts

In the record

Sada Carolyn Thompson (September 27, 1927 – May 4, 2011) was an American stage, film, and television actress. The birth-card coordinate for September 27 is the 10 of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1972 Best Actress in a Play (Twigs) win.

Tony Award record (leading acting)

• 1972 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play — Twigs as Ma / Dorothy / Celia / Emily

The 10 of Hearts coordinate

Sada Thompson's birthday maps to the 10 of Hearts (The Community Heart). 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 Sada Thompson. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You make room for a lot of people and still keep a self inside the room.

Live 10 of Hearts meaning page

Sada Thompson in the public record

Though best known to television audiences as Kate Lawrence in Family (1976–1980), for which she won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 1978, Thompson originally won acclaim as a theater actress on Broadway winning a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for Twigs in 1972. She was born Sada Carolyn Thompson in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1927 to Hugh Woodruff Thompson and his wife Corlyss (née Gibson). The family moved to Fanwood, New Jersey a few years later. where she attended Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School, graduating in the class of 1945. Thompson earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now known as Carnegie Mellon University), after which she worked steadily in regional theatre in such plays as The Seagull, Pygmalion, Our Town, Arms and the Man, and Blithe Spirit. She received training at Pittsburgh Playhouse, where she appeared in numerous productions. She made her Off-Broadway debut in a 1955 production of Under Milk Wood, and the following year she appeared on television in a Goodyear Television Playhouse production. She made her Broadway debut in the 1959 musical Juno. Her additional New York City stage-credits include The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, Tartuffe, and Twigs.

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

Where the record meets the 10 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 Sada Thompson, and not a forecast of a Tony.

You make room for a lot of people and still keep a self inside the room. Your heart works at scale—you create belonging for families, groups, and communities, not just individuals. You're the one who makes everyone feel included, the emotional center of gravity in a room. Love, for you, is something you build collectively.

Thompson's additional television credits included Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law, The Love Boat, Father Dowling Mysteries, Andre's Mother, Indictment: The McMartin Trial, ER and Law & Order.

Paired on shared wording: included, love.

Also on the record

1. Her stage performances won her an Obie Award, a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play (for "Twigs"), three Drama Desk Awards and two Sarah Siddons Awards (the last presented for outstanding performances in Chicago theatre).
2. She was elected to the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2005.
3. On the strength of her success in Twigs, Thompson was signed to play neighbor Irene Lorenzo on All in the Family.
4. After taping her first episode, however, she was replaced by Betty Garrett, when it became obvious that she and producer Norman Lear had different opinions about how the character should be played.

Other leading Tony winners with this card

• Ben Harney — 1982 Best Actor in a Musical (Dreamgirls)
• Ingrid Bergman — 1947 Best Actress in a Play (Joan of Lorraine)
• Richard Griffiths — 2006 Best Actor in a Play (The History Boys)

FAQ

What is Sada Thompson's birth card?

The 10 of Hearts. September 27 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 Sada Thompson's dates come from?

Birth date 1927-09-27 is the day-precision date on Sada Thompson'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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