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Tracy Letts
Tracy Letts, American playwright, actor, and screenwriter; Steppenwolf ensemble member since 2002. Won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and Tony for August: Osage County and the 2013 Tony for acting in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; also wrote Killer Joe, Bug, Linda Vista, and The Minutes.
Tracy Middendorf
Tracy Middendorf, also credited as Tracy Lynn Middendorf, is an American actress born 1970, in Miami Beach, Florida, known for New Nightmare (1994), Mission: Impossible III (2006), Boardwalk Empire, and as Maggie Duval in Scream: The TV Series (2015-2016).
Tracy Morgan
Tracy Morgan (born 1968, Bronx) is an American comedian and actor, an SNL cast member 1996-2003, Tracy Jordan on 30 Rock (2006-2013), survivor of a fatal 2014 Walmart truck crash, and star of The Last O.G., Crutch, and The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins.
Tracy Nelson (actress)
Tracy Nelson (Tracy Kristine Nelson), American actress born 1963 in Santa Monica; daughter of Ricky Nelson and Kristin Harmon. Known for Jennifer DiNuccio on Square Pegs and Sister Steve on Father Dowling Mysteries; Hodgkin's lymphoma survivor and cancer advocate.
Tracy Reed (English actress)
Tracy Reed, born Clare Tracy Compton Pelissier, was an English actress whose career ran from the early 1960s to the mid-1970s, best known as Miss Scott in Dr. Strangelove.
Tracy Reiner
Tracy Reiner (born Tracy Henry, 1964, Albuquerque) is an American retired actress, daughter of Penny Marshall, adopted by Rob Reiner. Known for Betty "Spaghetti" Horn in A League of Their Own and roles in Die Hard, Apollo 13, and Pretty Woman.
Tracy Scoggins
Tracy Scoggins is an American actress, born in 1953, best known as Monica Colby in The Colbys and Dynasty and as Captain Lochley in Babylon 5.
Tracy Spiridakos
Tracy Spiridakos (Panagiota Spiridakos, born 1988, Winnipeg) is a Canadian actress known as Charlie Matheson on NBC's Revolution and Detective Hailey Upton on Chicago P.D. (2017-2024), now starring as park ranger Anna Pigeon on USA Network's 2026 crime drama.
Tracy Young
Tracy Young (Theresa Young, born 1970) is an American DJ, producer, and remixer known for remixing Madonna and winning a 2020 Grammy for Best Remixed Recording.
Tracy-Ann Oberman
Tracy-Ann Oberman (born 1966, Brent, London) is an English actress and writer, Chrissie Watts in EastEnders and Auntie Val in Friday Night Dinner, known for female Shylock in The Merchant of Venice 1936 and Geri Essendine in Present Laughter.
Trade paperback (comics)
Trade paperback (TPB), or trade: a softcover collected edition reprinting roughly 4-12 previously published comic issues, usually one story arc, without ads. Distinct from original graphic novels, hardcovers, and omnibuses; institutionalized by DC's Vertigo imprint in the 1990s.
Trader Joe's
Trader Joe's, originally Pronto Markets, is an American grocery chain founded by Joe Coulombe in 1967, known for its roughly 4,000 mostly private-label products at everyday low prices.
Trader Vic's
Trader Vic's is a Polynesian-themed restaurant chain founded by Victor Bergeron, who renamed his Oakland bar Hinky Dinks in 1938. Known for claiming the 1944 Mai Tai and rivaling Don the Beachcomber.
Trading Places
Trading Places (1983) is a John Landis comedy starring Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, and Jamie Lee Curtis, in which the Duke brothers' $1 bet swaps a broker and a hustler, ending on the NYMEX orange juice floor.
Trading Spaces
Trading Spaces: American TLC reality home-makeover series (2000-2008, eight seasons), adapted from BBC's Changing Rooms; neighbors swap homes for 48 hours, redo a room on a $1,000 budget, host Paige Davis, 2018-2019 revival.
Tradition
Tradition: transmitted practices with symbolic or ritual significance, defined by Hobsbawm; covers invented tradition (1983), UNESCO intangible heritage, Chinese custom-ritual interaction, and innovation.
Tradition and the Individual Talent
Tradition and the Individual Talent, T. S. Eliot's 1919 essay in The Egoist, reprinted in The Sacred Wood (1920), redefines literary tradition as labor-won and argues poetry is impersonal, an escape from personality.
Traditional African beers
Traditional African beers are opaque, sour, low-alcohol beverages made by fermenting sorghum, maize, or millet, known as umqombothi in South Africa and dolo in Burkina Faso.
Traditional animation
Traditional (cel) animation: hand-drawn animation on transparent celluloid cels photographed frame by frame over painted backgrounds; 24 drawings per second, Snow White (1937) as first feature, Disney's 1990 shift to digital CAPS.
Traditional dress of Portugal
The traditional dress of Portugal is festive rural folk costume, best known through the traje à vianesa of Viana do Castelo, a gold-adorned women's dress that became a national emblem.
Traditional dress of Siberian and circumpolar Asian peoples
Traditional dress of Siberian and circumpolar Asian peoples is fur- and skin-based clothing of peoples such as the Nenets, Evenki, Chukchi, and Sakha, among the first makers of tailored garments.
Traditional dress of Spain
Traditional dress of Spain is regional folk dress in three zones, north, central, and Andalusian-Mediterranean, codified nationally at a 1925 Madrid exhibition and still worn at festivals.
Traditional dress of the Americas, Arctic and Africa: comparative overview
Traditional dress of the Americas, Arctic, and Africa consists of locally made clothing systems in which materials, cut, and decoration respond to climate, trade, and social meaning.
Traditional dress of the Netherlands
Traditional dress of the Netherlands (klederdracht, streekdracht): region-bound folk clothing, never one national costume, with per-town variants signaling religion, wealth and mourning; only Arnemuiden, Marken, Staphorst-Rouveen and Bunschoten-Spakenburg still wear it daily, while Volendam dress dominates the tourist image.
Traditional food
Traditional food, also known as traditional dishes, is food from a particular culture, drawn from local resources and culturally accepted; UNESCO recognizes foodways as intangible cultural heritage.
Traditional games in the Philippines
Laro ng Lahi, traditional Filipino games such as patintero, tumbang preso, sipa, and sungka, played for generations with native materials; documented by Lopez (1980), promoted by DepEd and NCCA, and now preserved amid digital-game competition.
Traditional Italian regional dress
Traditional Italian regional dress is the local folk costume worn in Italy's regions, with no single national dress because each region has its own traditions, culture, and climate.
Traditional Japanese musical instruments
Wagakki (traditional Japanese musical instruments): koto, shamisen, shakuhachi, biwa, sho, hichiriki, taiko. Classified as wind, string, percussion; gagaku ensemble dates to the 10th century; shamisen arrived via Ryukyu in the 16th century; silk strings and skins are protected craft techniques.
Traditional Native American clothing
Traditional Native American clothing, including regalia, is Indigenous North American dress of hides, quillwork, beadwork, and trade cloth; each tribe has distinct styles, and headdresses and ceremonial items are restricted.
Traditional Thai clothing
Traditional Thai clothing (chut thai, ชุดไทย) covers Thai national and ethnic dress: pha nung, sinh, sabai, chong kraben, and the eight Queen Sirikit-era Phra Ratcha Niyom styles plus three men's shirts, now under 2026 UNESCO review.