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Stephen Graham

Stephen Graham (born August 3, 1973, Kirkby, United Kingdom), aged 53, is an English actor (born 1973). Graham's honours include Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie and Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Performance in a New Scripted Series.

Stephen Graham’s zodiac sign is Leo, Chinese zodiac is Water Ox, with Life Path 4 in numerology.

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Stephen Graham’s AsterNym identity

The Gilded Architect

Metal represents precision. Metal-led charts are associated with standards, boundaries, discernment and the ability to remove what is unnecessary. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.

Metal Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.

How common is the name Stephen in the U.S.?

#383

US rank in 2025

~867,669

Americans share it since 1880

1952

its peak year

Stephen ranked 32nd among boys and 1,415th among girls in 1973, the year of this birth, with 9,955 American boys and 70 girls on the register.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Stephen’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 S (1) and closes on N (5). Two values tie for most repeated, 1 and 5: drive against movement.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Stephen’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

4 · 1 · 9

Lucky colours

Blue & Black

Lucky day

Sunday

Direction

↑ North

Season

winter

Stones

Peridot, Ruby, Aquamarine

Flower constellation

🌸 Gladiolus · 🌻 Sunflower · 💠 Water Lily

Coral · Gold · Moonlight white

Eight Mansions · Kua number

Kua 8, trigram Gen 艮, West group. Best direction Southwest, worst South.

A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1973, 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 Stephen apart

Stephen Graham took the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie in 2025, at 52.

Training came by way of Salvatorian Roman Catholic College and Rose Bruford College.

The working life starts in 1990, at 17.

On the family side, Stephen Graham was raised one child.

Wikipedia's editors put Stephen Graham under Actors from Kirkby, Male actors from Liverpool and English people of Swedish descent.

Tom Brady (1977) and Martha Stewart (1941) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

Educated at
Salvatorian Roman Catholic College and Rose Bruford College
Awards
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, Miniseries or Television Film (2026), Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie (2025) and Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Performance in a New Scripted Series (2026)
Nominated for
British Academy Television Award for Best Actor
Working from
1990
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Wikipedia editions
40

What the chart says

Stephen, according to the stars

Core essence

Stephen is warm the way the sun is warm: not trying, just doing it. The core of Stephen is a big open heart and a need to be seen loving with it. They are generous with praise, with time, with the spotlight when they trust you, and they will remember every kindness you paid them for years. Loyal to a fault, and glad of the fault.

The vibe

Underneath, Stephen cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Stephen needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.

How Stephen wants to be loved

Stephen wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Stephen and they will quietly make your whole life run better.

How Stephen creates

How Stephen makes things happen: they refine it until it shines. A Yin Metal day master is jewellery, precise, aesthetic, particular about the finish. Stephen creates by polishing, by taste, by knowing exactly which detail makes the whole thing sing. Sensitive to being handled roughly, and worth handling well.

Instinct

Instinct: Stephen is steady under pressure, an Ox year, and their gut reaction is to keep going. Patient, stubborn in the useful way, the one still working when the others have gone home, and quietly very proud of it. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Stephen is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.

Triggers

Triggers: being told to wait. Mars in Aries means Stephen 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 Stephen's birth date. Working below.

Where Stephen sits

Six lines

Stephen’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Stephen

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Stephen

You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.

PrivateExpressive
Stephen

You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Stephen

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Stephen

You may favor what's proven and workable over the untested idea.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Stephen

You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Stephen Graham

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Kirkby 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 Kirkby that night

Computed for 53.48°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

Overhead at Kirkby at 9 p.m. that evening: Rastaban of Draco, within 8.0° of the exact zenith.

The brightest star above the horizon was Arcturus in Boötes, and 86 catalog stars were up in all.

Kirkby sits at 53.5°N, high enough that Vega, Capella and Deneb never set there — they circle the pole all night, every night of the year.

Nothing below −36.5° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Kirkby on any night.

Sun -0° below the horizon, Moon up and 30% lit at waxing crescent.

The name and the places

Born in
Kirkby, United Kingdom
Lives in
Ibstock

Wikidata records Ibstock as Stephen Graham's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.

No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Stephen Graham: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.

How unusual Stephen's chart is

Chart pattern score

27 / 100 · Reassuringly normal

T-square onto Mercury · 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.

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Leo Sun

Warm, loud, hard to ignore.

Stephen Graham's Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 3, 1973, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Leo means →

Water Ox

Says little. Finishes everything.

Stephen Graham was born on August 3, 1973, which falls in a Water Ox year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Ox means →

Life Path 4

Structure is comfort.

Stephen Graham's birth date, August 3, 1973, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 4 means →

What stands out in Stephen’s chart

Stephen’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 5° to 18° Libra depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Sun opens doors for Moon · Sextile, 1.1° orbJupiter opens doors for Neptune · Sextile, 2° orbMercury grinds against Mars · Square, 2.2° orbSaturn grinds against Pluto · Square, 2.2° orbNeptune opens doors for Pluto · Sextile, 2.3° orbMercury grinds against Uranus · Square, 4° orbSun faces off with Jupiter · Opposition, 4.3° orbJupiter flows with Pluto · Trine, 4.3° orbSun in Leo · 10°58′☉10°Moon in Libra · 12°04′☽12°Mercury in Cancer · 23°31′☿23°Venus in Virgo · 11°18′♀11°Mars in Aries · 25°44′♂25°Jupiter in Aquarius · 6°42′ · retrograde♃℞6°Saturn in Cancer · 0°10′♄0°Uranus in Libra · 19°33′♅19°Neptune in Sagittarius · 4°43′ · retrograde♆℞4°Pluto in Libra · 2°24′♇2°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Lines drawn
Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableJupitersextileNeptune1.9° to 2.0° orb

    Stephen’s growth opens doors for their imagination. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.

  • stableMercurysquareMars2.1° to 2.3° orb

    Stephen’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableSaturnsquarePluto2.2° to 2.3° orb

    Stephen’s discipline grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableNeptunesextilePluto2.3° orb

  • stableSunoppositionJupiter3.7° to 4.8° orb

  • stableMercurysquareUranus3.8° to 4.2° orb

  • stableMarssextileSaturn4.2° to 4.6° orb

  • stableJupitertrinePluto4.2° to 4.4° orb

  • stableSuntrineNeptune5.8° to 6.7° orb

  • stableMarsoppositionUranus6.0° to 6.4° orb

  • possibleSunsextileMoonorb from 0.1° to 7.1° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 0.1° to 11.9° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire3 of 10
  • Earth1 of 10
  • Air4 of 10
  • Water2 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal6 of 10
  • Fixed2 of 10
  • Mutable2 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart.

Stephen’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ Chiron ℞Aries 20°52′ (moves 0.01° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresSagittarius 4°27′ (moves 0.07° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosVirgo 23°48′ (moves 0.82° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ Hygiea ℞Aquarius 21°17′ (moves 0.19° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithSagittarius 28°38′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Ceres conjunction Neptune 0.3°
  • Eros sextile Mercury 0.3°
  • Chiron opposition Uranus 1.3°
  • Black Moon Lilith opposition Saturn 1.5°
  • Hygiea trine Uranus 1.7°
  • Ceres sextile Pluto 2.0°
  • Ceres sextile Jupiter 2.2°
  • Chiron square Mercury 2.7°
  • Black Moon Lilith trine Mars 2.9°

Stephen’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ☉ Sun7 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; 2 major aspects

  2. 2. ♂ Mars5 pts

    in its own sign, Aries; 3 major aspects

  3. 3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts

    disposes Neptune; 3 major aspects

Configurations in Stephen’s chart

  • t square, the shape it makesT-square onto Mercury · Mars, Uranus, MercuryAn opposition with a third planet squaring both ends. Read as a driving tension that resolves through the apex planet.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Uranus semi-square Neptune 0.2°
  • Sun semi-sextile Venus 0.3°
  • Jupiter biquintile Saturn 0.5°
  • Venus sesquiquadrate Mars 0.6°
  • Venus quintile Saturn 0.9°
  • Venus biquintile Jupiter 1.4°

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Stephen’s cards

Computed from August 3, 1973. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Fool

AsterNym identity card

The Gilded Architect

Western zodiac

Leo

Chinese zodiac

Ox 丑

Life Path

4 · Architect

☉ Ruled by Sun

Gold Au

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yin Metal.

Year

癸

yin Water

丑

Ox

Earth

roots & early life

Month

己

yin Earth

未

Goat

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

辛

yin Metal

未

Goat

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Stephen’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q442547 (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 Bryan Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Stephen Graham at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram and X.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Stephen Graham.

Quick answers about Stephen Graham’s chart

How old is Stephen Graham?
Stephen Graham is 53 years old, born August 3, 1973 in Kirkby, United Kingdom.
What zodiac sign is Stephen Graham?
Stephen Graham is a Leo: born August 3, 1973, which puts the Sun in Leo for the whole of that day.
What is Stephen Graham's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Ox, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the August 3, 1973 birth.
What is Stephen Graham's Life Path number?
Life Path 4, calculated in numerology.
What is Stephen Graham's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Aries at 20°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Stephen Graham's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Sagittarius at 28°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Stephen Graham's dominant planet?
Sun, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Leo; in its own sign, Leo; 2 major aspects). Mars is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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