Tyler Perry

**Tyler Perry** (born September 13, 1969 in New Orleans) is an American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter, whose work plays are usually for encouragement to African Americans. Having started writing plays at age 18, Perry created a successful touring theater company, videos of whose performances were sold on DVD. 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.  At age 16, he had his first name legally changed from Emmitt to Tyler in an effort to distance himself from his father.

## Filmography

|rowspan="2" style="width:33px;"|Year|rowspan="2"|Movie|colspan="5" class="unsortable"|Credited as|||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|2005|style="text-align:left;"|_Diary of a Mad Black Woman_|||||style="text-align:left;"|Madea / Joe / Brian||
|2006|style="text-align:left;"|_Madea's Family Reunion_|||||style="text-align:left;"|Madea / Joe / Brian||
|rowspan=2|2007|style="text-align:left;"|_Daddy's Little Girls_|||||style="text-align:left;"||
|style="text-align:left;"|_Why Did I Get Married?_|||||style="text-align:left;"|Terry Bob|||
|rowspan=2|2008|style="text-align:left;"|_Meet the Browns_|||||style="text-align:left;"|Madea / Joe|
|style="text-align:left;"|_The Family That Preys_|||||style="text-align:left;"|Ben|||
|rowspan=4|2009|style="text-align:left;"|_Madea Goes to Jail_|||||style="text-align:left;"|Madea / Joe / Brian|
|style="text-align:left;"|_Star Trek_|||||style="text-align:left;"|Admiral Barnett|||
|style="text-align:left;"|_I Can Do Bad All By Myself_|||||style="text-align:left;"|Madea / Joe|||
|style="text-align:left;"|_Precious_|||||style="text-align:left;"||||
|rowspan=2|2010|style="text-align:left;"|_Why Did I Get Married Too?_|||||style="text-align:left;"|Terry Bob|
|style="text-align:left;"|_For Colored Girls_|||||style="text-align:left;"||||
|2011|style="text-align:left;"|_Madea's Big Happy Family_|||||style="text-align:left;"|Madea / Joe||
|rowspan=3|2012|style="text-align:left;"|_Good Deeds_|||||style="text-align:left;"|Wesley Deeds|
|style="text-align:left;"|_Madea's Witness Protection_|||||style="text-align:left;"|Madea / Joe / Brian|||
|style="text-align:left;"|_Alex Cross_|||||style="text-align:left;"|Alex Cross|||
|rowspan=3|2013|style="text-align:left;"|_Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor_|||||style="text-align:left;"||
|style="text-align:left;"|_Peeples_|||||style="text-align:left;"||||
|style="text-align:left;"|_A Madea Christmas_|||||style="text-align:left;"|Madea|||
|rowspan=2|2014|style="text-align:left;"|_The Single Moms Club_|||||style="text-align:left;"|TK|
|style="text-align:left;"|_Gone Girl_|||||style="text-align:left;"|Tanner Bolt|||
|2015|style="text-align:left;"|_Madea's Tough Love_|||||style="text-align:left;"|Madea / Joe / Brian||
|rowspan=3|2016|style="text-align:left;"|_Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows_|||||style="text-align:left;"|Dr. Baxter Stockman|
|style="text-align:left;"|_Brain on Fire_|||||style="text-align:left;"|Richard|||
|style="text-align:left;"|_Boo! A Madea Halloween_|||||style="text-align:left;"|Madea / Joe / Brian|||
|rowspan=2|2017|style="text-align:left;"|_The Star_|||||style="text-align:left;"|Cyrus the Camel (voice)|
|style="text-align:left;"|_Boo 2! A Madea Halloween_|||||style="text-align:left;"|Madea / Joe / Brian|||
|rowspan=3|2018|style="text-align:left;"|_Acrimony_|||||style="text-align:left;"||
|style="text-align:left;"|_Nobody's Fool_|||||style="text-align:left;"||||
|style="text-align:left;"|_Vice_|||||style="text-align:left;"|Colin Powell|||
|2019|style="text-align:left;"|_A Madea Family Funeral_|||||style="text-align:left;"|Madea / Joe / Brian / Heathrow||
|2020|style="text-align:left;"|_A Fall from Grace_|||||style="text-align:left;"|Rory Garraux||
|rowspan="3"|2021|style="text-align:left;"|_Those Who Wish Me Dead_|||||style="text-align:left;"|Officer Arthur Phillip|
|style="text-align:left;"|_PAW Patrol: The Movie_|||||style="text-align:left;"|Truck Driver (voice)|||
|style="text-align:left;"|_Don't Look Up_|||||style="text-align:left;"|Jack Bremmer|||
|rowspan=2|2022|style="text-align:left;"|_A Madea Homecoming_|||||style="text-align:left;"|Madea / Joe|
|style="text-align:left;"|_A Jazzman's Blues_|||||||||

### Television work

|rowspan="2" style="width:33px;"|Year|rowspan="2"|Show|colspan="5" class="unsortable"|Credited as||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|2007–2012; 2020–present|style="text-align:left;"|_House of Payne_|||||style="text-align:left;"|Madea|
|2009–2011|style="text-align:left;"|_Meet the Browns_|||||style="text-align:left;"||
|2011–2017|style="text-align:left;"|_For Better or Worse_|||||style="text-align:left;"||
|2013–2021|style="text-align:left;"|_The Haves and the Have Nots_|||||style="text-align:left;"||
|2013–2017|style="text-align:left;"|_Love Thy Neighbor_|||||style="text-align:left;"|Madea|
||style="text-align:left;"|_If Loving You Is Wrong_|||||style="text-align:left;"||
||style="text-align:left;"|_Too Close to Home_|||||style="text-align:left;"||
||style="text-align:left;"|_The Passion: New Orleans_|||||style="text-align:left;"|Host/Narrator|
||style="text-align:left;"|_The Paynes_|||||style="text-align:left;"||
||style="text-align:left;"|_The Oval_|||||style="text-align:left;"||
||style="text-align:left;"|_Sistas_|||||style="text-align:left;"||
||style="text-align:left;"|_Young Dylan_|||||style="text-align:left;"||
||style="text-align:left;"|_Ruthless_|||||style="text-align:left;"||
||style="text-align:left;"|_Bruh_|||||style="text-align:left;"||
||style="text-align:left;"|_Assisted Living_|||||style="text-align:left;"||
||style="text-align:left;"|_All the Queen's Men_|||||style="text-align:left;"||

## Other websites

- Tyler Perry Official website
- Tyler Perry's 34th Street Films Official website
- Interview with Tyler Perry on beliefnet.com

## Infobox (person)

- **image**: 82nd Academy Awards, Tyler Perry - army mil-66455-2010-03-09-180359 (cropped).jpg
- **image size**: 237px
- **caption**: Perry at the 82nd Academy Awards
(March 7, 2010)
- **birth name**: Emmitt Perry, Jr.
- **birth place**: New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
- **yearsactive**: 1992–present