Anthony Perkins
Anthony Perkins (born April 4, 1932, New York City, United States; died 1992), was an American actor. Perkins's honours include Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor, Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor and Donostia Award.
Anthony Perkins’s zodiac sign was Aries, Chinese zodiac was Water Monkey, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
Aries, Chinese zodiac was 
Water Monkey, with 
Life Path 5 in numerology.Your match with Anthony
Anthony Perkins’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Pioneer
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Anthony in the U.S.?
#46
US rank in 2025
~1,495,156
Americans share it since 1880
1990
its peak year
The SSA recorded 4,223 American boys and 34 girls named Anthony in 1932: 45th among boys and 1,239th among girls for the year.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Anthony’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
9
Expression · the bigger picture
3
Soul Urge · being heard
6
Personality · caring, responsible
The name opens on A (1) and closes on Y (7). The value it repeats most is 5, which numerology reads as movement.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Anthony’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
5 · 4 · 9
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 💠 Water Lily
White · Crimson · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 4, trigram Xun 巽, East group. Best direction North, worst Northwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1932, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Anthony apart
The Theatre World Award came in 1955, when Anthony Perkins was 23.
Anthony Perkins was taught at Brooks School and Buckingham Browne & Nichols School.
Anthony Perkins was 21 when the work began in 1953.
Cause of death is recorded as AIDS related disease.
The family line: born to Janet Esselstyn Rane and Osgood Perkins, married Berry Berenson and raised 2 children.
Wikipedia files Anthony Perkins under AIDS-related deaths in California, Film directors from Massachusetts and Brooks School alumni.
Clive Davis shares the birth date exactly, so the chart below is nearly the same document for them both. What follows the chart is where they part.
- Educated at
- Brooks School, Buckingham Browne & Nichols School and Rollins College
- Awards
- Palme d'Or (1961), Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor (1961) and Edgar Awards (1974)
- Nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
- Working from
- 1953
- Cause of death
- AIDS related disease
- Citizenship
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Wikipedia editions
- 66
What the chart says
Anthony, according to the stars
Core essence
Anthony leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Anthony is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
How Anthony creates
How Anthony makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Anthony creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Anthony is witty and inventive, a Monkey year, and their gut reaction is to play with the problem. Clever, funny, curious, a little mischievous, and quick to land on their feet. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Anthony is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Anthony gets angry fast, says it, and is over it before you have finished being hurt. The temper is honest and short. Give them a clear path and something to fight for, and all that heat turns into drive.
Computed from Anthony's birth date. Working below.
Where Anthony sits
Six lines
Anthony’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Anthony Perkins
Three stars chosen from the real sky above New York City on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over New York City that night
Computed for 40.71°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Tania Australis stood nearest the zenith over New York City at 9 p.m. that evening, 85.8° above the horizon in Ursa Major.
Sirius was the brightest thing up that night, one of 103 catalog stars above the horizon.
New York City sits at 40.7°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.
Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from New York City at all: they sit past the −49.3° declination limit this latitude imposes.
The Moon was at new moon, 1% lit, and already below the horizon, with the Sun 27° down.
The name and the places
- Born in
- New York City, United States
The death is recorded at Hollywood, Los Angeles in 1992.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Anthony Perkins: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Anthony's chart is
Chart pattern score
46 / 100 · Quietly distinctive
4-planet stellium in Aries · 1 planet at a critical degree
An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
Score your own chart →If you only read one paragraph
Aries Sun
Aries SunImpatient, and usually right to be.
Anthony Perkins's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 4, 1932, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Aries means →Water Monkey
Water MonkeyWit is the tool.
Anthony Perkins was born on April 4, 1932, which falls in a Water Monkey year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Monkey means →Life Path 5
Life Path 5Restless, curious, gone.
Anthony Perkins's birth date, April 4, 1932, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 5 means →What stands out in Anthony’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Anthony Perkins' date-only chart is Uranus square Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Four planets, Sun, Mercury, Mars and Uranus, sit together in Aries, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Six of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Anthony Perkins combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Pioneer.
Anthony’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 24° to 5° Pisces or Aries depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableMoonconjunctionMars0.1° to 6.6° orb
Anthony’s feelings and drive act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableUranussquarePluto0.9° orb
Anthony’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
stableVenussextileMars1.3° to 1.6° orb
Anthony’s affections open doors for their drive.
stableSuntrineJupiter1.6° to 2.6° orb
stableMarssextileSaturn2.0° to 2.7° orb
stableVenustrineSaturn3.3° to 4.3° orb
stableMercurysquarePluto3.8° to 4.3° orb
stableSunconjunctionUranus3.9° to 4.8° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionUranus4.7° to 5.2° orb
stableSunsquarePluto4.8° to 5.7° orb
stableVenussquareNeptune5.4° to 6.5° orb
stableJupitertrineUranus6.4° to 6.5° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire6 of 10
- Earth2 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal6 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable1 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Anthony’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironTaurus 20°52′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ CeresCapricorn 20°49′ (moves 0.23° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosPisces 28°34′ (moves 0.65° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 12°53′ (moves 0.02° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithAries 26°55′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Hygiea conjunction Jupiter 0.3°
- Chiron sextile Pluto 0.9°
- Ceres opposition Pluto 0.9°
- Eros sextile Venus 1.1°
- Ceres square Uranus 1.8°
- Hygiea trine Sun 1.8°
- Eros conjunction Mars 2.5°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Mercury 2.9°
Anthony’s dominant planets
1. ♂ Mars11 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; in its own sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus; 3 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
in its own sign, Taurus; 3 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus5 pts
disposes Saturn; 4 major aspects
Configurations in Anthony’s chart
Stellium in Aries · Sun, Mercury, Mars, UranusThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.0°
- Neptune semi-square Pluto 0.7°
- Sun quintile Saturn 0.8°
- Venus quintile Jupiter 1.0°
- Uranus sesquiquadrate Neptune 1.6°
- Saturn quincunx Neptune 2.2°
Born the same day as Anthony
Clive Davis was born on April 4, 1932 too, the same date and the same year. With no birth time for any of them the chart is identical, not similar: the same Sun, the same pillars, the same Life Path. The sky over the birthplace is not shared: from New York City, at 40.7°N, nothing below −49.3° declination ever rises, which keeps Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman permanently out of sight. Same sky, different lives.
More people like Anthony
Other actors
- Eileen Brennan1932
- Leslie Caron1931
- Peter O'Toole1932
- Stephen Boyd1931
- Pier Angeli1932
- Ian Holm1931
Born in United States
- Linda PastanAmerican writer
- Lois WilleAmerican journalist and author
- Donald BrenAmerican businessman
- James CroninAmerican physicist
- Michael ColgrassCanadian musician and composer
- Angie DickinsonAmerican actress (born 1931)
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- Anthony LewisAmerican journalist
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- Bob WoodwardAmerican investigative journalist (born 1943)
Born in Monkey years
- François EnglertBelgian theoretical physicist
- Pierre-Gilles de GennesFrench physicist
- François JacobFrench biologist and geneticist, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1965
Also born on April 4
- Maya Angelou1928
- Robert Downey Jr.1965
- Heath Ledger1979
- Hugh Masekela1939
- Natasha Lyonne1979
- Jill Scott1972
Fellow Yin Wood day masters
- Giulio NattaItalian chemist
- Howard TeminAmerican geneticist
- Henry TaubeCanadian-born American chemist
Other Aries Monkey charts
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- Patricia ArquetteAmerican actress (born 1968)
- Nina AgdalDanish model
Other Evergreen Pioneers
- Justin ShorterAmerican football player (born 2000)
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- DinoSouth Korean singer (born 1999)
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Anthony’s cards
Computed from April 4, 1932. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
TemperanceAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen PioneerWestern zodiac
AriesChinese zodiac
Monkey 申Life Path
5 · Explorer♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
壬
yang Water
申
Monkey
Metal
roots & early life
Month
癸
yin Water
卯
Rabbit
Wood
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Anthony’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q193146 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Portrait by Unknown (Paramount Pictures), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Anthony Perkins at Wikipedia, IMDb and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Anthony Perkins.
Quick answers about Anthony Perkins’s chart
- What zodiac sign was Anthony Perkins?
- Anthony Perkins was an Aries: born April 4, 1932, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
- What was Anthony Perkins's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Monkey, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 4, 1932 birth.
- How tall was Anthony Perkins?
- Anthony Perkins was 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
- What was Anthony Perkins's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology.
- What was Anthony Perkins's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Taurus at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where was Anthony Perkins's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aries at 26°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What was Anthony Perkins's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (11 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; in its own sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Uranus; 3 major aspects). Venus is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
