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Terry-Thomas

Terry-Thomas (Thomas Terry Hoar Stevens, 1911-1990) was an English comedy actor famous for playing cads and bounders with a tooth gap, cigarette holder, and the catchphrase "You're an absolute shower" in Private's Progress, I'm All Right Jack, and Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines.

Tesis

Tesis (Thesis) is a 1996 Spanish black-and-white thriller, the debut feature of Alejandro Amenábar, starring Ana Torrent, Fele Martínez, and Eduardo Noriega; a film student finds a snuff tape at Madrid's Complutense University and won seven 1997 Goya Awards.

Tesla (2020 film)

Tesla (2020 film), Michael Almereyda's experimental biopic starring Ethan Hawke as Nikola Tesla opposite Kyle MacLachlan's Edison and Eve Hewson's narrator Anne Morgan; Sundance 2020 Sloan Feature Film Prize winner, IFC Films release, 102 minutes, $459,051 worldwide gross, Metascore 67.

Tess (1979 film)

Tess (1979) is Roman Polanski's adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles, starring Nastassja Kinski, Peter Firth, and Leigh Lawson. A Franco-British Claude Berri production shot in Normandy, it won three 1981 Academy Awards and was dedicated to Sharon Tate.

Tess Daly

Tess Daly (Helen Elizabeth Daly), English TV presenter and former model, co-host of Strictly Come Dancing since 2004 with Bruce Forsyth then Claudia Winkleman; MBE 2025, departing 2025.

Tess Harper

Tess Harper (Tessie Jean Washam, born 1950) is an American actress from Mammoth Spring, Arkansas, whose film debut as Rosa Lee in Tender Mercies (1983) earned a Golden Globe nomination and whose Chick Boyle in Crimes of the Heart (1986) earned an Academy Award nomination.

Tessa Peake-Jones

Tessa Peake-Jones (born 1957, Hammersmith) is an English actor known as Raquel in Only Fools and Horses (1988–2003) and Mrs Maguire/Chapman in Grantchester (2014–2026), trained at Central School of Speech and Drama.

Tessa Rao

Tessa Rao (born 1998) is a New Zealand actress and singer-songwriter, the Green Ranger Izzy Garcia in Power Rangers Dino Fury and Cosmic Fury, the franchise's first LGBTQ+ Ranger, and Dr. Poppy Achari on Shortland Street.

Tessa Thompson

Tessa Thompson (Tessa Lynne Thompson), American actress born 1983 in Los Angeles; known for Dear White People, Selma, Creed and Thor franchises, Westworld, and Viva Maude productions Hedda and His & Hers.

Tessa Wyatt

Tessa Wyatt (born 1948, Woking, Surrey) is an English actress best known as Vicky Tripp in ITV's Robin's Nest (1977–1981); also Pride and Prejudice (1967), Peep Show, EastEnders; ex-wife of DJ Tony Blackburn.

Test (2025 film)

Test (2025) is a Tamil-language Indian sports drama, the directorial debut of S. Sashikanth for YNOT Studios, starring Madhavan, Nayanthara, Siddharth, and Meera Jasmine. It premiered on Netflix April 4, 2025, in five languages, set around a Chennai cricket test match.

Test (2026 film)

Test (2026) is an American LGBTQ+ sports drama directed by Sam McConnell, written by and starring Brock Yurich as a small-town bodybuilder facing PEDs, faith, and queer awakening; distinct from the 2025 Tamil cricket film Test.

Testament of Youth (film)

Testament of Youth (2014) is James Kent's film adaptation of Vera Brittain's First World War memoir, starring Alicia Vikander and Kit Harington, produced by Heyday Films and BBC Films, released January 2015.

Tetro

Tetro (2009) is Francis Ford Coppola's self-financed black-and-white drama, his first original screenplay since The Conversation (1974), about estranged brothers in Buenos Aires, starring Vincent Gallo and Alden Ehrenreich, premiered at Cannes Directors' Fortnight.

Tetsuko Kuroyanagi (黒柳徹子)

Tetsuko Kuroyanagi (黒柳徹子), known as Totto-chan, is a Japanese actress, author of Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window, and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador since 1984, the first from Asia, and host of the long-running talk show Tetsuko's Room since 1976.

Tetsuo: The Iron Man (鉄男)

Tetsuo: The Iron Man (鉄男) is Shinya Tsukamoto's 1989 Japanese black-and-white 16mm body horror feature debut, based on The Phantom of Regular Size, about a salaryman whose flesh turns to metal; it won the 1989 Rome Fantafestival Grand Prix.

Tetsuryō! Meet with Tetsudō Musume

Tetsuryō! Meet with Tetsudō Musume (てつりょー!meet with 鉄道むすめ) is a 2026 original TV anime from TOMYTEC's Tetsudō Musume franchise, following the Tetsuryōkai university railway-travel club, produced by East Fish Studio, airing from October 8, 2026.

Tetsuya Kakihara (柿原 徹也)

Tetsuya Kakihara (柿原徹也), born 1982 in Düsseldorf, West Germany, is a Japanese voice actor and Kiramune singer; known for Natsu Dragneel in Fairy Tail, Simon in Gurren Lagann, Garma Zabi in Gundam THE ORIGIN, and Best Rookie Actor at the 1st Seiyu Awards; founded agency Zynchro in 2014.

Tevar (तेवर)

Tevar (तेवर, "Attitude") is a 2015 Hindi action film, a remake of the Telugu hit Okkadu, directed by Amit Ravindernath Sharma, starring Arjun Kapoor, Sonakshi Sinha, and Manoj Bajpayee; released 9 January 2015, it flopped at the box office.

Tex Avery

Tex Avery (Frederick Bean Avery, 1908–1980), American animator and director of Golden Age cartoon shorts; creator or co-creator of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Droopy, and Screwy Squirrel at Warner Bros. and MGM.

Texas (TV series)

Texas (1980-1982) was an NBC daytime soap opera and spin-off of Another World, set in Houston as a daytime counterpart to prime-time Dallas, starring Beverlee McKinsey as Iris under executive producer Paul Rauch.

Texas Chainsaw 3D

Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013), also released as Texas Chainsaw, is the seventh Texas Chainsaw Massacre film, a John Luessenhop-directed direct sequel to the 1974 original starring Alexandra Daddario, which opened number one but earned a 31 Metascore.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022 film)

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022) is a Netflix slasher film, the ninth in the franchise and a direct sequel to the 1974 original, directed by David Blue Garcia, starring Elsie Fisher and Olwen Fouéré, with 31% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Texas Rangers (2001 film)

Texas Rangers (2001) is a Steve Miner Western starring James Van Der Beek, Dylan McDermott, and Ashton Kutcher, based on George Durham's book Taming the Nueces Strip; a $38 million Miramax/Dimension film that grossed only $763,740 worldwide.

Texas Rising

Texas Rising is a 2015 five-part History channel miniseries, directed by Roland Joffé and starring Bill Paxton as Sam Houston, dramatizing the Texas Revolution after the Alamo and the founding of the Texas Rangers; critics panned its historical accuracy.

Texhnolyze (テクノライズ)

Texhnolyze (テクノライズ, TEXHNOLYZE) is a 2003 Madhouse anime TV series on Fuji TV, directed by Hiroshi Hamasaki, written by Chiaki J. Konaka, with character design by Yoshitoshi ABe, set in the underground city Lux.

Teyonah Parris

Teyonah Parris is an American film and television actress and Juilliard graduate. She is widely known for roles in Mad Men, Dear White People, and The Marvel.

Tezaab (तेज़ाब)

Tezaab (तेज़ाब), a 1988 Hindi action romance directed by N. Chandra, starring Anil Kapoor as Munna and Madhuri Dixit as Mohini; highest-grossing Hindi film of 1988 with four Filmfare Awards and the hit song Ek Do Teen.

Tezz

Tezz (तेज़) is a 2012 Hindi action thriller directed by Priyadarshan, starring Ajay Devgn and Anil Kapoor, about a bomb on a London–Glasgow train; a box-office flop.

TGIF (TV programming block)

TGIF, officially "Thank Goodness It's Funny," was ABC's Friday-night family sitcom block created in 1989, anchored by Full House and Family Matters, defined by the Miller-Boyett two-rule formula, and revived by ABC in 2018.