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Tyler Perry's House of Payne

Tyler Perry's House of Payne is an American family sitcom created by Tyler Perry, about retired fire chief Curtis Payne and wife Ella. It ran on TBS 2007-2012 (254 episodes), was revived on BET in 2020, and is the longest-running Black sitcom by episode count, passing 400 episodes in 2026.

Tyler Posey

Tyler Posey (Tyler Garcia Posey, born 1991, Santa Monica) is an American actor, musician, and producer, best known as Scott McCall in MTV's Teen Wolf (2011-2017), later in Truth or Dare, Teen Wolf: The Movie, and NBC's Line of Fire.

Tyler Ritter

Tyler Ritter (born 1985, Los Angeles) is an American actor, son of John Ritter, known for starring as Ronny McCarthy on CBS's The McCarthys (2014-15) and for guest roles on NCIS, Grey's Anatomy, and Arrow.

Tyler Toney

Tyler Toney (born 1989), known as "Beard", is a co-founder and the public face of Dude Perfect, the Texas A&M-born YouTube trick-shot group with over 61 million subscribers, known for stunts like the 2010 crop-duster shot and Dude Perfect Outdoors.

Tylor Chase

Tylor Chase (Tylor Kurtis Mendez, born 1989), American former child actor, played Martin Qwerly on Nickelodeon's Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide (2004–2007, 33 episodes); later credits include L.A. Noire; reported homeless in California in 2025.

Tyne Daly

Tyne Daly (Ellen Tyne Daly, born 1946, Madison, Wisconsin) is an American stage and screen actress, six-time Emmy winner as Mary Beth Lacey on Cagney & Lacey and Maxine Gray on Judging Amy, and 1990 Tony winner for Gypsy.

Tyner Rushing

Tyner Rushing (born 1992) is an American actress from Semmes, Alabama, known for Emma Smith in Under the Banner of Heaven, Virginia Creel in Stranger Things, Liz Riley in The Terminal List and Dark Wolf, and Samantha Massey in For All Mankind.

Typecasting

Typecasting: repeated casting of an actor in roles matching a fixed character type, also called playing against type when broken. Studied by Zuckerman et al. (AJS 2003) and Friedman & O'Brien (2017) as a labor-market mechanism.

Typewriter (2019 TV series)

Typewriter (टाइपराइटर) is a 2019 Hindi-language Netflix horror series of five episodes created, directed, and co-written by Sujoy Ghosh, set in Goa around Bardez Villa, a self-writing Remington typewriter, and a children's ghost club.

Typhoon Club (台風クラブ)

Typhoon Club (台風クラブ) is a 1985 Japanese youth drama by Shinji Sōmai: junior high students trapped in a Shinshu school during a typhoon. Tokyo IFF Young Cinema Grand Prize; Kinema Junpo All-Time Best 100 No. 55.

Typhoon Family (태풍상사)

Typhoon Family (태풍상사, Typhoon Trading Company) is a 2025 tvN/Netflix Korean drama, 16 episodes, Oct 11–Nov 30, starring Lee Jun-ho and Kim Min-ha, set in the 1997 IMF crisis; finale hit 10.3% Nielsen.

Tyra Ferrell

Tyra Ferrell (born 1962, Houston) is an American actress known for Mrs. Baker in Boyz N the Hood (1991), Orin Goode in Jungle Fever, Rhonda Deane in White Men Can't Jump, and Jessie in Poetic Justice, plus TV roles on ER, The Corner, and Empire.

Tyra Sanchez

Tyra Sanchez is the former stage name of James William Ross IV (born 1988), American drag performer and Beyoncé impersonator who won RuPaul's Drag Race season 2 in 2010, later retired, returned as King Tyra, and now performs as Tyra.

Tyrannosaur (film)

Tyrannosaur (2011) is Paddy Considine's feature directorial debut, a British drama starring Peter Mullan and Olivia Colman, expanded from his short Dog Altogether; it won Sundance and BAFTA honors and Best British Independent Film.

Tyrant (film)

Tyrant is an upcoming American thriller film directed by David Weil, set in New York City's elite fine dining scene, produced by Amazon MGM, The Picture Company, and Secret Menu, starring Charlize Theron, Julia Garner, and Demi Moore, distinct from the 2024 Korean series The Tyrant.

Tyrant (TV series)

Tyrant is an American drama series that aired on FX from 2014 to 2016, about the son of a Middle Eastern dictator returning to his fictional homeland.

Tyreese

Tyreese Williams is a The Walking Dead character from Robert Kirkman's comics and the AMC series, played by Chad L. Coleman. Comic Tyreese is Rick's second leader, decapitated by the Governor; the TV Tyreese, brother of Sasha, dies from a walker bite in season 5.

Tyrel Jackson Williams

Tyrel Jackson Williams (born 1997) is an American actor from Westchester County, New York, known for Leo Dooley on Disney XD's Lab Rats, Charles on IFC's Brockmire, and Sackson in Party Down's 2023 revival.

Tyriq Withers

Tyriq Withers (Tyriq Leshon Withers, born 1998, Jacksonville, Florida) is an American actor and former FSU walk-on wide receiver known for Atlanta's "Rich Wigga, Poor Wigga," Him (2025), I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025), and Reminders of Him (2026).

Tyrone Guthrie

Sir Tyrone Guthrie (1900–1971), Anglo-Irish theatre director, pioneer of the thrust stage, founding artistic director of the Stratford Festival (1953) and the Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis (1963), knighted 1961.

Tyrone Power

Tyrone Power (1914–1958), American film and stage actor, top 20th Century-Fox leading man; starred in The Mark of Zorro, The Razor's Edge, Nightmare Alley, Witness for the Prosecution; Marine pilot in WWII; died filming Solomon and Sheba.

Tzi Ma (马泰)

Tzi Ma (马泰), born 1962 in Hong Kong, is an American character actor of over 70 TV series and 40 films, known for Rush Hour, 24, The Farewell, Tigertail, Mulan, and Asian American representation advocacy.

Tzuyang (쯔양)

Tzuyang (쯔양), real name Park Jung-won (박정원), born 1997, is a South Korean mukbang YouTuber whose channel tzuyang쯔양 has about 13.5 million subscribers and 4 billion views; known for large-scale eating videos, a 2024 abuse disclosure, and a snack bar venture.

U Are the Universe

U Are the Universe (Ти – Космос) is a 2024 Ukrainian-Belgian sci-fi dramedy, Pavlo Ostrikov's feature debut, about a space trucker left alone after Earth explodes; premiered at TIFF 2024, won the Silver Méliès.

U Me Aur Hum (यू मी और हम)

U Me Aur Hum (यू मी और हम) is a 2008 Hindi romantic drama, Ajay Devgn's directorial debut, starring Devgn and Kajol as a couple facing Piya's Alzheimer's diagnosis; released 11 April 2008 by Eros International with music by Vishal Bhardwaj.

U Turn (1997 film)

U Turn is Oliver Stone's 1997 neo-noir thriller, written by John Ridley from his novel Stray Dogs, starring Sean Penn, Jennifer Lopez, and Nick Nolte. A gambler stranded in Superior, Arizona is caught between a couple who each want the other dead; shot in 42 days for $20 million, it grossed $6.6 million.

U Turn (2016 film)

U Turn (2016) is a Kannada-language mystery thriller written, produced, and directed by Pawan Kumar, starring Shraddha Srinath in her debut. A journalist investigating illegal U-turns on a Bengaluru flyover becomes entangled in deaths; remade in Tamil, Telugu, Sinhala, Filipino, and Hindi.

U Turn (2018 film)

U Turn (2018): Pawan Kumar's Tamil-Telugu bilingual remake of his 2016 Kannada thriller, starring Samantha Akkineni as a journalist probing flyover U-turn deaths; released 13 September 2018, UA, budget est. 15 crore.

U-571 (film)

U-571 (2000) is a Jonathan Mostow submarine thriller starring Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, and Harvey Keitel, in which American sailors steal an Enigma machine from a German U-boat, a role historically played by the British.

U.N.C.L.E.

U.N.C.L.E. (United Network Command for Law and Enforcement) is the fictional spy agency of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 1964-68), fielding agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin against THRUSH, later revived in a 1983 TV movie and a 2015 film.