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. J Rank's biography website article  At age 16, he had his first name legally changed from Emmitt to Tyler in an effort to distance himself from his father. Biography.com listing for Tyler Perry

Filmography

Year Movie Credited asDirectorWriterProducerActor Role 2005 Diary of a Mad Black Woman     Madea / Joe / Brian 2006 Madea's Family Reunion     Madea / Joe / Brian2007 Daddy's Little Girls     Why Did I Get Married?     Terry Bob2008 Meet the Browns     Madea / Joe The Family That Preys     Ben2009 Madea Goes to Jail     Madea / Joe / Brian Star Trek     Admiral Barnett I Can Do Bad All By Myself     Madea / Joe Precious     2010 Why Did I Get Married Too?     Terry Bob For Colored Girls     2011 Madea's Big Happy Family     Madea / Joe2012 Good Deeds     Wesley Deeds Madea's Witness Protection     Madea / Joe / Brian Alex Cross     Alex Cross2013 Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor      Peeples     A Madea Christmas     Madea2014 The Single Moms Club     TK Gone Girl     Tanner Bolt 2015 Madea's Tough Love     Madea / Joe / Brian2016 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows     Dr. Baxter Stockman Brain on Fire     Richard Boo! A Madea Halloween     Madea / Joe / Brian2017 The Star     Cyrus the Camel (voice) Boo 2! A Madea Halloween     Madea / Joe / Brian2018 Acrimony      Nobody's Fool     Vice     Colin Powell 2019 A Madea Family Funeral     Madea / Joe / Brian / Heathrow 2020 A Fall from Grace    Rory Garraux 2021 Those Who Wish Me Dead     Officer Arthur Phillip PAW Patrol: The Movie     Truck Driver (voice) Don't Look Up     Jack Bremmer 2022 A Madea Homecoming     Madea / Joe A Jazzman's Blues     

Television work
 Year Show Credited asDirectorWriterProducerActor Role 2007–2012; 2020–present  House of Payne     Madea 2009–2011 Meet the Browns     2011–2017 For Better or Worse     2013–2021 The Haves and the Have Nots     2013–2017 Love Thy Neighbor     Madea  If Loving You Is Wrong       Too Close to Home       The Passion: New Orleans     Host/Narrator  The Paynes       The Oval       Sistas      Young Dylan       Ruthless       Bruh       Assisted Living       All the Queen's Men    

 References 

 Other websites 
Tyler Perry Official website
Tyler Perry's 34th Street Films Official website 

Interview with Tyler Perry on beliefnet.com

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