Tyler Perry
Tyler Perry (born Emmitt Perry Jr.; September 13, 1969) is an American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter.
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| Born | Emmitt Perry Jr. September 13, 1969 (aged 56) New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. |
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| Years active | 1992–present |
| Partner(s) | Gelila Bekele (2009–2020) |
| Children | 1 |
| Website | tylerperry |
Having started writing plays at age 18, Perry created a successful touring theater company, videos of whose performances were sold on DVD.[1]
As of March 2005, the plays had grossed over $75 million in ticket and DVD sales. He is well known for his plays on Madea.
He owns his own movie studio in Atlanta called Tyler Perry Studios.[2]
At age 16, he had his first name legally changed from Emmitt to Tyler in an effort to distance himself from his father.[3]
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Credited as | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Director | Writer | Producer | Actor | Role | ||
| 2005 | Diary of a Mad Black Woman | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Madea / Joe / Brian |
| 2006 | Madea's Family Reunion | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Madea / Joe / Brian |
| 2007 | Daddy's Little Girls | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Why Did I Get Married? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Terry Bob | |
| 2008 | Meet the Browns | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Madea / Joe |
| The Family That Preys | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Ben | |
| 2009 | Madea Goes to Jail | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Madea / Joe / Brian |
| Star Trek | No | No | No | Yes | Admiral Barnett | |
| I Can Do Bad All By Myself | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Madea / Joe | |
| Precious | No | No | Yes | No | ||
| 2010 | Why Did I Get Married Too? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Terry Bob |
| For Colored Girls | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | ||
| 2011 | Madea's Big Happy Family | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Madea / Joe |
| 2012 | Good Deeds | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Wesley Deeds |
| Madea's Witness Protection | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Madea / Joe / Brian | |
| Alex Cross | No | No | No | Yes | Alex Cross | |
| 2013 | Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Peeples | No | No | Yes | No | ||
| A Madea Christmas | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Madea | |
| 2014 | The Single Moms Club | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | TK |
| Gone Girl | No | No | No | Yes | Tanner Bolt | |
| 2015 | Madea's Tough Love | No | No | Yes | Yes | Madea / Joe / Brian |
| 2016 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows | No | No | No | Yes | Dr. Baxter Stockman |
| Brain on Fire | No | No | No | Yes | Richard | |
| Boo! A Madea Halloween | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Madea / Joe / Brian | |
| 2017 | The Star | No | No | No | Yes | Cyrus the Camel (voice) |
| Boo 2! A Madea Halloween[4] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Madea / Joe / Brian | |
| 2018 | Acrimony | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Nobody's Fool[5][6] | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | ||
| Vice | No | No | No | Yes | Colin Powell | |
| 2019 | A Madea Family Funeral[7][8] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Madea / Joe / Brian / Heathrow |
| 2020 | A Fall from Grace | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Rory Garraux |
| 2021 | Those Who Wish Me Dead | No | No | No | Yes | Officer Arthur Phillip |
| PAW Patrol: The Movie | No | No | No | Yes | Truck Driver (voice) | |
| Don't Look Up | No | No | No | Yes | Jack Bremmer | |
| 2022 | A Madea Homecoming | Yes | Yes | Executive | Yes | Madea / Joe |
| A Jazzman's Blues | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | ||
Television work
| Year | Show | Credited as | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Director | Writer | Producer | Actor | Role | ||
| 2007–2012; 2020–present | House of Payne | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Madea |
| 2009–2011 | Meet the Browns | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 2011–2017 | For Better or Worse | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 2013–2021 | The Haves and the Have Nots | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 2013–2017 | Love Thy Neighbor | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Madea |
| 2014–2020 | If Loving You Is Wrong | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 2016–2017 | Too Close to Home | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 2016 | The Passion: New Orleans | No | No | No | Yes | Host/Narrator |
| 2018 | The Paynes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 2019–present | The Oval | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 2019–present | Sistas | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 2020–present | Young Dylan[9] | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 2020–present | Ruthless | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 2020–present | Bruh | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 2020–present | Assisted Living | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 2021–present | All the Queen's Men | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
Tyler Perry Media
Perry at the 82nd Academy Awards ceremony, 2010
Perry at a book signing in 2006
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References
- ↑ Christian, Margena A. (October 2008). "Becoming Tyler: bill collector turned billion-dollar media mogul was molded from pain, promise and persistence". Ebony: 4. Archived from the original on 2012-07-08. https://archive.today/20120708170425/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1077/is_12_63/ai_n29470264/?tag=content;col1. Retrieved 2011-10-11.
- ↑ Pomerantz, Dorothy. The Highest-Paid Men In Entertainment. Forbes.
- ↑ Tyler Perry Biography (2010). Retrieved January 16, 2010. Biography.com listing for Tyler Perry
- ↑ "Boo! 2: A Madea Halloween (2017)". Movie Insider. March 9, 2017. https://www.movieinsider.com/m15160/madea-boo-2.
- ↑ McNary, Dave. Tiffany Haddish to Star in Tyler Perry Comedy 'The List' (March 5, 2018).
- ↑ McNary, Dave. Whoopi Goldberg Joins Tiffany Haddish in Tyler Perry's Comedy 'The List' (March 26, 2018).
- ↑ Tyler Perry's A Madea Family Funeral Gets a Release Date. ComingSoon.net (June 1, 2018).
- ↑ Busch, Anita. 'Madea Family Funeral' From Lionsgate Moves To 2019 (June 1, 2018).
- ↑ Petski, Denise. 'Tyler Perry's Young Dylan Nickelodeon Series Sets Cast. Deadline Hollywood (January 23, 2020). Retrieved February 15, 2020.