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Tricia Chapman
Tricia is a feminine given name, often a short form (hypocorism) of Patricia. It may refer to: ;People: * Patricia Tricia Brock (born 1979), American contemporary Christian singer-songwriter * Tricia Brown (born 1979), Australian rugby union player * Patricia Tricia Cast (born 1966), American actress * Tricia Chuah (born 1982), Malaysian professional squash player * Patricia Tricia Cotham (born 1978), American politician, member of the North Carolina House of Representatives * Patricia Tricia Nixon Cox (born 1946), elder daughter of former US President Richard Nixon * Tricia Cullop (born 1971), American women's college basketball head coach * Tricia Dunn-Luoma (born 1974), American ice hockey player * Tricia Flores (born 1979) long and triple jumper and sprinter from Belize * Tricia Guild, British designer, entrepreneur and writer * Tricia Helfer (born 1976), Canadian actress and model * Tricia Hunter, a former California state Assemblywoman * Tricia MacGregor (born 1970), Canadi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hypocorism
A hypocorism ( or ; from Ancient Greek: (), from (), 'to call by pet names', sometimes also ''hypocoristic'') or pet name is a name used to show affection for a person. It may be a diminutive form of a person's name, such as ''Izzy'' for Isabel or ''Bob (given name), Bob'' for Robert, or it may be unrelated. In linguistics, the term can be used more specifically to refer to the morphological process by which the standard form of the word is transformed into a form denoting affection, or to words resulting from this process. In English, a word is often Clipping (morphology), clipped down to a closed monosyllable and then suffixed with ''-y/-ie'' (phonologically /i/). Sometimes the suffix ''-o'' is included as well as other forms or templates. Hypocoristics are often affective in meaning and are particularly common in Australian English, but can be used for various purposes in different semantic fields, including personal names, place names and nouns. Hypocorisms are usually ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tricia Penrose
Patricia "Tricia" Penrose (born 9 April 1970) is an English actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Gina Ward in ITV's long-running 1960s drama ''Heartbeat'', a role she played continuously for 17 years from 1993 to 2010. She has also appeared on ''The Royal'', ''Coronation Street'', ''Emmerdale'', ''Boon'', ''Justice'', '' Fort Boyard'', ''The Bill'' and ''Dancin' Thru the Dark''. As well as her acting roles, she has had her own show on Radio Wirral and in 2021 been working on some shows for BBC Radio 4. Singing profile Although primarily focused on her acting career, Penrose has also had an interest in the music industry, releasing two singles – "Where Did Our Love Go?" (1996, UK No. 71) and "Don't Wanna Be Alone" (2000, UK No. 44). In 2002, she reached the final of ''A Song for Europe'' (the competition to select the UK's Eurovision Song Contest entry) but did not win. In 2004, however, she won a Christmas edition of the ITV show ''Stars in Their Eyes'', perf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Family Guy
''Family Guy'' is an American animated sitcom originally conceived and created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The show centers around the Griffin family, Griffins, a dysfunctional family consisting of parents Peter Griffin, Peter and Lois Griffin, Lois; their children, Meg Griffin, Meg, Chris Griffin, Chris, and Stewie Griffin, Stewie; and their anthropomorphism, anthropomorphic pet dog, Brian Griffin, Brian. Set in the fictional city of Quahog, Rhode Island, Quahog, Rhode Island, the show exhibits much of its humor in the form of metafictional cutaway (filmmaking), cutaway gags that often lampoon Culture of the United States, American culture. The family was conceived by MacFarlane after developing two animated films, The Life of Larry and Larry & Steve, ''The Life of Larry'' and ''Larry & Steve''. MacFarlane redesigned the films' protagonist, Larry, and his dog, Steve, and renamed them Peter and Brian, respectively. MacFarlane pitched a seven-minute pil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Family Guy Characters
'' Family Guy'' is an American animated comedy series created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox Broadcasting Company. Characters are only listed once, normally under the first applicable subsection in the list; very minor characters are listed with a more regular character with whom they are associated. Appearances The Griffin family Peter Griffin Justin Peter Griffin. (voiced by Seth MacFarlane) is the patriarch of the Griffin household, a 45-year-old Irish-American blue-collar worker. For most of the series, Peter is shown as an obese, unintelligent, lazy, outspoken, childish, and eccentric alcoholic. Lois Griffin Lois Patrice Griffin (née Pewterschmidt) (voiced by Alex Borstein) is the matriarch of the Griffin household, Peter's wife, and the mother of Meg, Chris, and Stewie. She is a 44-year-old German-American, and has a Jewish mother who is a Holocaust survivor. Meg Griffin Megan Harvey Oswald Griffin (voiced by Lacey Chabert in seasons 1 & 2, Mila Kunis sinc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trillian (character)
Tricia Marie McMillan, also known as Trillian Astra, is a fictional character from Douglas Adams' series ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy''. She is most commonly referred to simply as "Trillian", a modification of her birth name, which she adopted because it sounded more "space-like". According to the movie version, her middle name is Marie. Physically, she is described as "a slim, darkish humanoid, with long waves of black hair, a full mouth, an odd little knob of a nose and ridiculously brown eyes," looking "vaguely Arabic." Biography Tricia McMillan is a mathematician and astrophysicist whom Arthur Dent attempted to talk to at a party in Islington. She and Arthur next meet six months later on the spaceship Heart of Gold, shortly after the Earth has been destroyed to make way for a hyperspace bypass. The trilogy later reveals that Trillian eventually left the party with Zaphod Beeblebrox, who, according to the Quintessential Phase, is directly responsible for her nickn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tricia Armstrong
The following is a list of characters that first appeared in the ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street'' in 1994, by order of first appearance. Tricia Armstrong Tricia Armstrong, played by Tracy Brabin for a period of three years between 1994 and 1997. Brabin was Labour Party (UK), Labour MP for Batley and Spen (UK Parliament constituency), Batley and Spen from 2016 to 2021, and following that became the inaugural Mayor of West Yorkshire; coincidentally, her last appearance as Tricia aired on 1997 United Kingdom general election, 2 May 1997 - the day Tony Blair took office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Prime Minister. Tricia first appeared when her son #Jamie Armstrong, Jamie (Joe Gilgun) was accused of shoplifting at Bettabuys supermarket. Tricia befriended assistant manager Curly Watts (Kevin Kennedy (actor), Kevin Kennedy) to get Jamie out of trouble and pleaded with Curly to go easy on him. Tricia developed an attraction to Curly and they began dating but the relati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tricia (elephant)
Tricia (24 January 1957 – 6 July 2022) was a female Asian elephant which resided at Perth Zoo in Perth, Western Australia. She was born in 1957 in Vietnam and was transported to Perth in 1963. Tricia was named after Tricia Reschke, the Miss Australia from the previous year. Tricia's health began to decline in 2016 and significantly worsened in 2022. She lived to be one of the oldest Asian elephants in the world. Life at Perth Zoo Tricia was born in Saigon, Vietnam, on 24 January 1957 and came to Perth Zoo in Perth, Western Australia, in January 1963. She was acquired from Mayfield Kennels, an animal dealer based in Singapore. Tricia was named after Tricia Reschke, who was Miss Australia in 1962, as part of a newspaper competition. She, along with fellow elephant Tania, was officially christened in 1963 by Australian beauty queen Tania Verstak. For her first two decades at Perth Zoo, Tricia was kept in a small concrete enclosure, but from 1986 lived in a larger enclosure wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tricia Wright
Tricia Wright (born 1 September 1958 in Epping) is a female former professional English darts player from Mitcham in Surrey. Her nickname is The Wright Stuff. Career Wright competed in the first PDC Women's World Championship final in 2010, losing 6-5 to Stacy Bromberg despite having four darts to win it. She played at the 2010 Grand Slam of Darts, losing all 3 of her group matches to Raymond van Barneveld, Darryl Fitton and Colin Lloyd. Since 2001 she has won over 50 amateur titles. Wright was due to be one of three ladies to play on the 2011 PDC ProTour, along with Bromberg and Anastasia Dobromyslova but after the PDC decided to drop the Women's World championship and thus its qualification to the Grand Slam of Darts she decided to go back to the BDO without playing a single PDC event. World Championship results PDC * 2010: Runner-up (lost to Stacy Bromberg Stacy Bromberg (July 27, 1956 – February 12, 2017) was an American darts player who was a PDC Women's Worl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tricia Walsh-Smith
Tricia Walsh-Smith (born 24 March 1956) is an English playwright and actress. Her plays include ''Bonkers'', ''Addictions'', ''The Last Journey '' and musical ''Change The Day''. Early life Born in RAF Gütersloh, Germany, Walsh-Smith was part of a military family which travelled the world until her RAF father's death when she was twelve. She then settled briefly in her mother's hometown of Beverley in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. Walsh-Smith attended the Italia Conti Academy from the age of fifteen. Career Walsh-Smith appeared in over five hundred commercials on British and European television, including as a schoolgirl in the commercial for Hellmann's Mayonnaise. Her television and film roles include the British horror film, '' Terror'' (1978), ''Kenny Everett Video Show'', '' Constant Hot Water'', ''Dick Emery'' and the children's television drama, ''Grange Hill''. She has written the play ''Bonkers'' which premiered in London in 1987. Walsh-Smith's play, ''Addi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tricia Walker
Patricia Margaret Walker (8 February 1964 – 8 January 2018), better known as Tricia Walker, was a contemporary British author, best known for her debut novel ''Benedict's Brother'', which was voted 'Book of the Year' by Publishing News and was the best-selling launch by an unknown debut author for Borders UK in 2007. The book follows the journey of a young woman, Benedict, who inherits money from her uncle, a deceased Japanese prisoner of war who was posted in Thailand. Like the protagonist in the book, Walker used the money she inherited from her own POW uncle, Ernest Taylor, to discover what happened to him and also visit her brother who is a Buddhist monk in Thailand. Walker was the daughter of author Peter Walker, who wrote more than 130 books (under six pseudonyms). Under the pseudonym Nicholas Rhea he wrote the popular Constable series, which was the inspiration behind the successful British TV police drama, ''Heartbeat'', which was broadcast on ITV in 18 series from 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tricia Sullivan
Tricia Sullivan (born July 7, 1968 in New Jersey, United States) is a science fiction writer. She also writes fantasy under the pseudonym Valery Leith. She moved to the United Kingdom in 1995. In 1999 she won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for her novel ''Dreaming in Smoke''. Her novels ''Maul'', ''Lightborn'', and ''Occupy Me'' have also been shortlisted for the Clarke award, in 2004, 2011, and 2017 respectively. Sullivan has studied music and martial arts. Her partner is the martial artist Steve Morris, with whom she has three children. They live in Shropshire Shropshire (; alternatively Salop; abbreviated in print only as Shrops; demonym Salopian ) is a landlocked historic county in the West Midlands region of England. It is bordered by Wales to the west and the English counties of Cheshire to th .... Bibliography Science fiction *''The Question Eaters'' (1995) (Short Story) *''Lethe'' (1995) *''Someone to Watch over Me'' (1997) *''Dreaming in Smoke'' (1999) *''Maul'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tricia Stumpf
Tricia Stumpf (born 1970) is an American skeleton racer who competed in the early 2000s. She won two bronze medals in the women's skeleton event at the FIBT World Championships, earning them in 2000 and 2001. Tricia was the Women's National Skeleton Champion in 2000 and 2001 on the Olympic track in Park City, Utah. In 2000, she also won gold in the North American Championships in Calgary, Canada. On the world stage Tricia earned two additional World Cup medals during the 2000–2001 season. She earned a bronze medal in Igls, Austria and a silver medal in La Plagne, France. In the off-season, Tricia won three consecutive summer Push Championships in 1999, 2000 (Lake Placid, New York) and 2001 (Calgary, Canada). An injury prevented Tricia from competing in the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Park City, Utah. However, Tricia was selected to carry the Olympic flame in her home town of Park City, Utah, during the Olympic torch relay. The University of Utah alumni worked as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
