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Tracy Letts's Birth Card: The Jack of Diamonds
The Successful Messenger
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
Tracy Shane Letts (born July 4, 1965) is an American actor, playwright, podcaster, and screenwriter. The birth-card coordinate for July 4 is the Jack of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2013 Best Actor in a Play (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) win.
Tony Award record (leading acting)
- 2013 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play — Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as George
The Jack of Diamonds coordinate
Tracy Letts's birthday maps to the Jack of Diamonds (The Successful 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 Tracy Letts. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You try a new approach to value and you finish enough of it to know if it works.
Tracy Letts in the public record
As a stage actor, Letts has performed in various classic plays with the Steppenwolf Theatre since 1988. He made his acting Broadway debut as George in the revival of Edward Albee's play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, which earned him a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play in 2013. He continued acting on the Broadway stage in All My Sons and The Minutes. On television, he is known for his portrayal of Andrew Lockhart in seasons 3 and 4 of Showtime's Homeland from 2013 to 2014. He played Jack McKinney in the HBO sports drama series Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty (2022–2023); for this role, he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series in 2024. On film, he has portrayed Henry Ford II in James Mangold's sports drama Ford v Ferrari (2019) and Mr. Dashwood in Little Women, a 2019 film adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's novel of the same name. As a playwright, Letts' works include Killer Joe, Man from Nebraska, August: Osage County, and The Minutes.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Tracy Letts (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the cards
Cards in Tracy Letts's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- J♦ — Birth Card: The Successful Messenger
- J♣ — Karma — Environment: The Creative Messenger
- 3♠ — Karma — Displacement: The Sorrowful Truth
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 4♥ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 4♦ — Life Spread — Venus
- 8♥ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 6♣ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 6♠ — Life Spread — Uranus
- Q♥ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 10♣ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 8♦ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
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 J♦, J♣, 3♠, K♣, 8♠, 2♠, 4♥, 4♦, 8♥, 6♣, 6♠, Q♥, 10♣, 8♦. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast a Tony.
Also on the record
- In 2008, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play for August: Osage County.
- Letts adapted three of his plays into films: Bug (2006) and Killer Joe (2011), both directed by William Friedkin; and August: Osage County (2013), directed by John Wells.
Other leading Tony winners with this card
- Ethel Merman — 1951 Best Actress in a Musical (Call Me Madam)
- Gertrude Lawrence — 1952 Best Actress in a Musical (The King and I)
- Gregory Hines — 1992 Best Actor in a Musical (Jelly's Last Jam)
- Harvey Fierstein — 1983 Best Actor in a Play (Torch Song Trilogy); 2003 Best Actor in a Musical (Hairspray)
- John Lloyd Young — 2006 Best Actor in a Musical (Jersey Boys)
- Lesley Manville — 2026 Best Actress in a Play (Oedipus)
- Mary-Louise Parker — 2001 Best Actress in a Play (Proof); 2020 Best Actress in a Play (The Sound Inside)
- Thelma Ritter — 1958 Best Actress in a Musical (New Girl in Town)
FAQ
- What is Tracy Letts's birth card?
- The Jack of Diamonds. July 4 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 Tracy Letts's dates come from?
- Birth date 1965-07-04 is the day-precision date on Tracy Letts'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 (Q984572) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Tracy Letts). Birth date 1965-07-04 is the Wikipedia person-page day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).