Jessica Biel

Jessica Biel was fourteen when she was cast as Mary Camden, the eldest daughter of a minister's family, on the wholesome drama 7th Heaven. The show was a hit, and she spent years playing the good girl. At seventeen she posed topless for the cover of Gear magazine, in part, she later said, to break free of that image, and the producers of the show were not pleased. It was the first of several deliberate efforts to show audiences that she could be someone else.

She was born on March 3, 1982, in Ely, Minnesota, near the Canadian border, at 12:56 in the morning, a time taken from her birth record. Her Sun is in Pisces, the sign of empathy, imagination and changing shape. A Pisces Sun tends to absorb the people and places around it, and actors with this placement often describe acting as a way of slipping into other lives. Mercury, in Aquarius, joins the Sun in the third house, a sector associated with siblings, learning and early surroundings.

Her Moon is in Gemini, a restless, curious and quick-changing sign, and it falls in the seventh house, which governs partnership. A Gemini Moon in the seventh suggests someone who finds emotional balance through a partner who keeps things lively. In 2012 she married the singer Justin Timberlake in southern Italy. They have two sons, and Biel has been protective of their privacy.

She grew up partly in Boulder, Colorado, and was a serious athlete as a girl, a competitive gymnast and soccer player. That physicality came through in her early film career, in action roles in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake, Blade: Trinity and Stealth, and later in more varied work, from The Illusionist to Easy Virtue.

Mars, retrograde in Libra, sits at the top of her chart, in the tenth house, where reputation is read. Mars there describes ambition, and the retrograde motion suggests ambition that turns inward and has to find its own way rather than following the obvious path. Biel struggled to find roles that fit, and eventually she began producing her own.

Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto, all retrograde, gather in her eleventh house, which concerns groups, networks and long-range plans. She founded the production company Iron Ocean, and in 2017 she produced and starred in The Sinner, playing a young mother who stabs a stranger to death on a crowded beach and cannot explain why. The performance earned her Emmy and Golden Globe nominations and reset how audiences saw her. She followed it with Candy, a true-crime drama in which she played Candy Montgomery, a Texas woman tried for killing a friend with an ax in 1980.

Uranus and Neptune, both in Sagittarius, fall in her first house, adding an unconventional and searching streak to her self-presentation. The Pisces Sun gave her the ability to disappear into characters; the Mars at the top of her chart made sure she eventually chose them herself.