Simon Russell Beale's Birth Card: The 2 of Spades

In the record

Sir Simon Russell Beale (born 12 January 1961) is an English actor. The birth-card coordinate for January 12 is the 2 of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2022 Best Actor in a Play (The Lehman Trilogy) win.

Tony Award record (leading acting)

• 2022 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play — The Lehman Trilogy as Henry Lehman

The 2 of Spades coordinate

Simon Russell Beale's birthday maps to the 2 of Spades (The Skeptical Partner). 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 Simon Russell Beale. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You hold two pressures at once and still make a call that can live in the world.

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Simon Russell Beale in the public record

Once described by The Independent as "the greatest stage actor of his generation", he has received various accolades, including a Tony Award, three Laurence Olivier Awards, and two British Academy Television Awards. For his services to drama, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2019. Beale started his acting career at the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre. He has received ten Olivier Award nominations, winning three awards for his performances in Volpone (1996), Candide (2000), and Uncle Vanya (2003). For his work on the Broadway stage he has received a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play nomination for his performance as George in the Tom Stoppard play Jumpers in 2004. For his role as Henry Lehman in The Lehman Trilogy, he won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play and was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Actor. Beale made his film debut in Sally Potter's period drama Orlando (1992). He gained prominence for his roles in Persuasion (1995), Hamlet (1996), My Week with Marilyn (2011), The Deep Blue Sea (2011), Mary Queen of Scots (2018), Benediction (2021), and The Outfit (2022).

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

Where the record meets the 8 of Diamonds

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 Simon Russell Beale, and not a forecast of a Tony.

Strategic thinking about resources and power

Beale started his acting career at the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre.

Paired on value and commerce — the domain ♦ governs in this system. Markers in the record: company. This line comes from the Uranus position of the 2♠'s Life Spread.

Also on the record

1. In 2017, he portrayed Lavrentiy Beria in Armando Iannucci's The Death of Stalin, for which he received the British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Actor.
2. Beale has also appeared in the television projects The Young Visiters (2003), Dunkirk (2004), and Vanity Fair (2018).
3. He earned two British Academy Television Awards: one for Best Actor for A Dance to the Music of Time (1998), and the other for Best Supporting Actor for Henry IV, Part I and Part II (2012).
4. From 2014 to 2016, he was part of the main cast of Showtime's Penny Dreadful, and from 2024 to 2026, House of the Dragon.

Other leading Tony winners with this card

• Audrey Hepburn — 1954 Best Actress in a Play (Ondine)
• Joanna Gleason — 1988 Best Actress in a Musical (Into the Woods)
• Judith Anderson — 1948 Best Actress in a Play (Medea)
• Ruth Brown — 1989 Best Actress in a Musical (Black and Blue)

FAQ

What is Simon Russell Beale's birth card?

The 2 of Spades. January 12 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 Simon Russell Beale's dates come from?

Birth date 1961-01-12 is the day-precision date on Simon Russell Beale'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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