Joanne Woodward has the Sun in Pisces, the Moon in Aquarius and Capricorn rising: an Academy Award-winning actress known for playing complex women with great subtlety, and one half of one of Hollywood's longest marriages.

She was born at 4 in the morning on 27 February 1930 in Thomasville, Georgia. Astro-Databank rates the time AA, from a quoted birth record. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Three Faces of Eve (1957), in which she played a woman with several personalities, and went on to win three Emmy Awards. She married Paul Newman in 1958, and they were together until his death in 2008. At 60 she earned a degree from Sarah Lawrence College, graduating alongside her daughter.

Sun and Venus in Pisces, in the 2nd house

Her Sun is at 8 degrees of Pisces with Venus nearby, both in the 2nd house of what we value. Pisces is the sign of empathy and of slipping into other people's lives, and it suits an actress whose most famous role asked her to become three different women. The Sun makes an exact square to Jupiter and an easy sextile to Saturn: a large, generous talent held in a steady, disciplined shape.

Moon in Aquarius in the 2nd house

Her Moon is in Aquarius, the sign of the independent mind, and Mercury and Mars in Aquarius sit in her 1st house. An Aquarius Moon needs freedom and respect, and values friendship in love. She was known for her intelligence and her independence, and she went back to studying in her late fifties. Her Aquarius Moon sits in the sign of Paul Newman's Sun, and her Pisces Sun falls a few degrees from his Pisces Moon: each had the other's light and feeling in the same signs.

Capricorn rising, with Saturn close by

Capricorn rising is serious, private and self-possessed, and Saturn, its ruler, sits close to her Ascendant in the 12th house. It describes a woman who preferred the stage, the classroom and her family to the Hollywood spotlight. She and Newman shared the same rising sign, two degrees apart, and they made 16 films together, several of them directed by him. She stepped back from public life in 2007.

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