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Tyler Perry
Tyler Perry is an American filmmaker and actor. His films vary in style from orthodox filmmaking techniques to filmed productions of live stage plays, many of which have been subsequently adapted into feature films. Perry is the creator and performer of Mabel "Madea" Simmons, a tough elderly woman, and also portrays her brother Joe Simmons and her nephew Brian Simmons. Madea's first appearance was…
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entertainment · American actor and filmmaker (born 1969) · actor · film director · screenwriter · playwright · film producer · songwriter · television director · film actor · television actor · stage actor · also Tyler Perry, Perry
Born 13 September 1969 · Q686301
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2026· 2 entries
The Guardian: Strung review – far-fetched thriller awkwardly mixes Blumhouse and Tyler Perry
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2025· 6 entries
The Guardian: Tyler Perry faces second sexual assault lawsuit for $77m
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Mario Rodriguez, an actor who appeared in Boo
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Perry's comedy series Tyler Perry's Finding Joy debuted on Amazon Prime
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The Guardian: Tyler Perry accused of sexual harassment and workplace gender violence
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Derek Dixon, an actor in some of Perry's productions including The Oval, filed a lawsuit against Perry that accused Perry of committing numerous acts of sexual assault and sexual battery against him since 2021
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The Guardian: Straw review – Taraji P Henson rises above Tyler Perry’s tortured Netflix thriller
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2024· 9 entries
The Guardian: Steve Mensch, Tyler Perry Studios president, killed in Florida plane crash
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The Guardian: The Six Triple Eight review – Tyler Perry’s war movie is another bomb
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The Guardian: Beauty in Black review – Tyler Perry’s Netflix series is another lurid mess
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The Guardian: In Trump's America 'there is no dream that looks like me': Tyler Perry campaigns for Harris – video
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The Guardian: Is Tyler Perry the most frustrating man in Hollywood?
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The Guardian: Divorce in the Black review – Tyler Perry’s dull drama is his worst to date
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The Guardian: Mea Culpa review – Tyler Perry’s schlocky Netflix thriller descends into silliness
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The Guardian: Tyler Perry halts $800m studio expansion after being shocked by AI
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And then departed from The Oval after the complaint failed to result in the show's producers taking any action
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2023· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “Videos that surfaced in November 2023 accurately reported that actor Idris Elba "exposed" media mogul Tyler Perry as portraying harmful stereotypes for Black men.” False.
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2022· 1 entry
The Guardian: A Jazzman’s Blues review – soulful Netflix drama is Tyler Perry’s magnum opus
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2021· 6 entries
The Guardian: ‘I’d stop stockpiling toilet paper’: Cate Blanchett, Mark Rylance and Tyler Perry on their end-of-the-world plans
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Awarded Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award (2021).
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PolitiFact rated the claim “A photo shows a recent White House event was actually filmed at Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta.” Pants on Fire.
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Snopes rated the claim “Entertainment mogul Tyler Perry let Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, stay at his Los Angeles home, and also offered them security after they left the United Kingdom following a rift with the royal family.” True.
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Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex publicly revealed in the television interview Oprah with Meghan and Harry that Perry provided initial security and housing for three months that allowed the coup
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And was inducted into the Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame the following year
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2020· 3 entries
Perry revealed that he writes all of his scripts independently without a writers' room
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And, as of September 2025, running for 12 seasons, the most any show with a predominately African American cast
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Perry was included in Time's list of the 100 most influential people and received the Governor's Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
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2019· 1 entry
Produced the political drama series The Oval for BET
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2018· 2 entries
The Guardian: Tyler Perry: the creator of a racial stereotype or the greatest indie film-maker of all time?
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Where Perry "tightly hugged" him and "grabbed his penis
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2017· 1 entry
Perry signed a long-term deal with Viacom (now ViacomCBS) for 90 episodes/year of original drama and comedy series
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2016· 3 entries
Snopes.com rated the claim “Oprah Winfrey and/or Tyler Perry are offering big-ticket Facebook giveaways.” False.
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The Guardian: Tyler Perry's Madea beats Tom Cruise's Jack Reacher at US box office
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Perry played scientist Baxter Stockman in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
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2015· 1 entry
Perry acquired the 330-acre (130 ha) former military base Fort McPherson located in Atlanta, which he converted to studios
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2014· 5 entries
Perry's then-partner, Gelila Bekele, gave birth to their son, Aman
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A Haves and the Have Nots season 2 episode set an OWN record when it scored the highest ratings in the network's history
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The Haves and the Have Nots came in as the most watched program in all of cable television for the night
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As part of Perry's continued partnership with OWN, the network ordered its fourth scripted series (and fourth series by Perry) based on the feature film, The Single Moms Club, called If Loving You Is Wrong
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Reported net worth: $400M (as of 2014).
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2013· 4 entries
Won Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress for A Madea Christmas (2013).
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That The Haves and the Have Nots set a new record for OWN, scoring the highest ratings ever for a series premiere on the network
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And completed its series run after 8 seasons on July 20, 2021
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Perry's company, ETPC LLC, purchased around 1,100 acres (4
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2012· 2 entries
Was panned by critics and audiences, with Rotten Tomatoes scores of 11% & 47% positive respectively, and became a box office bomb
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Perry struck an exclusive multi-year partnership with Oprah Winfrey and her Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN)
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2011· 2 entries
Written, directed by and starring Perry
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Forbes listed him as the highest-paid man in entertainment, earning $130 million between May 2010 and May 2011
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2009· 7 entries
Perry's mother, Willie Maxine Perry, died at age 64, following an illness
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Perry sponsored 65 children from a Philadelphia day camp to visit Walt Disney World, after reading that a suburban swim club, the Valley Swim Club in Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania, had shunned them
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Grossing US$41 million and becoming his largest opening to date
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Perry teamed with Oprah Winfrey to present Precious, a film based on the novel Push by Sapphire
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Lee referred to certain portrayals in Perry's productions as "coonery buffoonery," expressing concern over the imaging in contemporary Black media
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Perry co-produced Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire alongside Oprah Winfrey and Lee Daniels
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Perry had a small role as the Starfleet Academy commandant Admiral Barnett in Star Trek, which opened on May 8
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2007· 2 entries
The first two episodes of Tyler Perry's House of Payne ran on TBS
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Perry bought a 17-acre (7 ha) estate in the Paces neighborhood of Buckhead, Atlanta
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2005· 2 entries
Forbes reported that he had sold "more than $100 million in tickets, $30 million in videos of his shows and an estimated $20 million in merchandise", and "the 300 live shows he produces each year are attended by an avera
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With the film Diary of a Mad Black Woman, which he wrote and produced as an adaptation of his stage play of the same name
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1998· 1 entry
At age 28, he succeeded in retooling the play and restaging it in Atlanta, first at the House of Blues, then at the Fox Theatre
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1969· 1 entry
Born 1969-09-13.
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