Tyler Perry
Tyler Perry (born Emmitt Perry, Jr.; September 13, 1969) is an African-American actor, director, playwright, screenwriter, producer, author, songwriter., and entrepreneur.
Already a successful artist in Southern theater, Perry began to make national celebrity status in 2005 with the release of his first film, Diary of a Mad Black Woman. He has won critical praise for playing Madea, a mentally strong woman who handles adversity with optimism and happiness; his critically acclaimed portrayal of her in the award-winning "Madea" series has caused him to be one of the most respected black actors in Hollywood.
He has produced multiple TV series as well as films, started a multiple year partnership with OWN (Oprah Winfrey Network), and opened his own film studio, Tyler Perry Studios, in Georgia.
Perry was included in Time's list of the 100 most influential people of 2020. In 2022, he was inducted into the Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 3.5589 |
| Birthday | 1969-09-14 |
| Place of Birth | New Orleans, Louisiana, USA |
| Also Known As | Emmitt Perry, Jr., |
2009
I Can Do Bad All By Myself
6.286/147
When Madea catches teenage Jennifer and her two younger brothers looting her home, she decides to take matters into her own hands and delivers the you...
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I Can Do Bad All By Myself
2009
Star Trek
7.437/10718
The fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of bitter rivals. One, James Kirk, is a delinquent, thrill-seeking Iowa farm boy. The other, Spock, a Vulcan...
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Star Trek
2003
Madea's Class Reunion - The Play
6.769/39
When Madea shows up for her 50th class reunion, you know it’s going to be a whopper! Between the belly laughs and the soulful songs are life lessons....
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Madea's Class Reunion - The Play
2010
Why Did I Get Married Too?
6.593/177
Four couples reunite for their annual vacation in order to socialize and to spend time analyzing their marriages. Their intimate week in the Bahamas i...
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Why Did I Get Married Too?
2008
Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys
6.897/97
Wealthy socialite Charlotte Cartwright and her dear friend Alice Pratt, a working class woman of high ideals, have enjoyed a lasting friendship throug...
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Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys
2012
Good Deeds
6.273/139
For all his life, wealthy businessman Wesley Deeds has done what's expected of him and has settled into a predictable routine. His scripted life begin...
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Good Deeds
2009
Madea Goes to Jail
6.5/216
After a high-speed car chase, Madea winds up behind bars because her quick temper gets the best of her. Meanwhile, Assistant District Attorney Josh Ha...
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Madea Goes to Jail
2021
2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
4/2
Filmed at the Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse in Cleveland, Ohio, the 2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony honors inductees: Tina Turner, Carol...
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2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2005
Diary of a Mad Black Woman
6.522/245
Charles, an attorney, and Helen, his devoted wife, seem to have everything – money, a beautiful mansion – the American Dream. However, as Helen prepar...
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Diary of a Mad Black Woman
2008
Meet the Browns
6.677/116
A single mother living in inner city Chicago, Brenda has been struggling for years to make ends meet and keep her three kids off the street. When she'...
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Meet the Browns
2006
Madea's Family Reunion
6.351/225
Southern matriarch Madea has a lot on her plate. Her nieces, Vanessa and Lisa, have relationship troubles - Vanessa moves into Madea's house with her...
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Madea's Family Reunion
2007
Why Did I Get Married?
6.534/176
Eight married college friends plus one other non-friend (all of whom have achieved middle to upper class economic status) go to Colorado for their ann...
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Why Did I Get Married?
2011
Madea's Big Happy Family
6.7/169
When Shirley, Madea's niece, receives distressing news about her health, the only thing she wants is her family gathered around her. However, Shirley'...
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Madea's Big Happy Family
2010
Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family - The Play
7.4/34
Shirley has important news for her family, but she has five grown children with different lifestyles and finds it difficult to get them and the kids a...
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Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family - The Play
2021
Tyler Perry: Man of Many Faces
0/0
Despite humble beginnings, Tyler Perry established a successful career as a writer, director, and producer for stage, television and film. Perry's acc...
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Tyler Perry: Man of Many Faces
2012
Alex Cross
5.126/791
Alex Cross, a genius homicide detective/psychologist is trying to clean up the mean streets of Detroit while keeping his family out of the line of fir...
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Alex Cross
2006
Madea Goes to Jail - The Play
7.6/40
Madea returns in another hilarious story in which she gets sent to the big house. But regardless of the circumstances, she gives her trademark advice...
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Madea Goes to Jail - The Play
2012
Madea's Witness Protection
6.103/200
For years, mild-mannered Wall Street banker George Needleman has meandered through life oblivious to his family's dysfunction and his company's malfea...
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Madea's Witness Protection
2012
Eddie Murphy: One Night Only
6/10
Eddie Murphy: One Night Only pays homage to Murphy's journey from a 15-year-old aspiring comedian, through the record-breaking Raw, which remains the...
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Eddie Murphy: One Night Only
2012
Tyler Perry's Madea Gets A Job - The Play
7.2/38
Tyler Perry's new musical stage play starring the infamous Mabel Simmons or "Madea" as her fans know her. When a judge orders Madea to do 20 hours of...
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Tyler Perry's Madea Gets A Job - The Play
2013
A Madea Christmas
6.436/163
Madea dispenses her unique form of holiday spirit on rural town when she's coaxed into helping a friend pay her daughter a surprise visit in the count...
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A Madea Christmas
2014
Gone Girl
7.889/20393
With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he m...
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Gone Girl
2014
The Single Moms Club
5.975/177
A group of single moms are brought together in the aftermath of an incident at their children's school.
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The Single Moms Club
2011
Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas - The Play
6.7/31
When a family meets for Christmas at their posh Cape Cod estate, family arguments and secrets cause a stir. It takes a real down-to-earth family - lik...
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Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas - The Play
2023
Maxine's Baby: The Tyler Perry Story
7.7/9
Tyler Perry is America’s consummate multihyphenate. But underneath this entertainment behemoth is a man working humbly to heal his childhood trauma by...
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Maxine's Baby: The Tyler Perry Story
2014
Tyler Perry's Madea's Neighbors from Hell - The Play
7.147/34
Madea's neighborhood takes a turn for the worse when a foster mother moves in with her unruly kids. Suspicious activity leads Madea to take justice in...
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Tyler Perry's Madea's Neighbors from Hell - The Play
2015
Tyler Perry's Madea's Tough Love
6.639/36
After a hilarious run-in with the law, Madea is sentenced to community service. Determined to do good for the 'hood, Madea enlists Aunt Bam and Uncle...
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Tyler Perry's Madea's Tough Love
2026
Joe's College Road Trip
6.042/72
To teach his sheltered grandson about the real world, Madea's foul-mouthed brother Joe takes the college-bound teen on a raucous cross-country road tr...
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Joe's College Road Trip
2025
Madea's Destination Wedding
6.179/95
Madea packs her best floral dresses and a whole lot of chaos when the Simmons family heads to the Bahamas for her grandniece's whirlwind wedding.
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Madea's Destination Wedding
2017
Brain on Fire
7.015/1441
Susannah Cahalan, an up-and-coming journalist at the New York Post becomes plagued by voices in her head and seizures, causing a rapid descent into in...
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Brain on Fire
2016
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
6.062/3883
After supervillain Shredder escapes custody, he joins forces with mad scientist Baxter Stockman and two dimwitted henchmen, Bebop and Rocksteady, to u...
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
2016
Boo! A Madea Halloween
5.809/442
Madea winds up in the middle of mayhem when she spends a hilarious, haunted Halloween fending off killers, paranormal poltergeists, ghosts, ghouls, an...
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Boo! A Madea Halloween
2016
The Passion
5.3/7
A two-hour musical event, airing live from New Orleans, that tells the 2000-year-old story of the last hours of Jesus Christ’s life on earth.
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The Passion
2017
Tyler Perry's Madea on the Run - The Play
7.5/45
In trouble with the local authorities, Mabel Simmons, notoriously known as Madea, is on the run from the law. With no place to turn, she moves in with...
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Tyler Perry's Madea on the Run - The Play
2009
The Black List: Volume Two
6/1
THE BLACK LIST: VOL. 2 profiles some of today's most fascinating African-Americans. From the childhood inspirations that shaped their ambitions, to th...
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The Black List: Volume Two
2017
The Star
6.5/624
A small but brave donkey and his animal friends become the unsung heroes of the greatest story ever told: the first Christmas.
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The Star
2017
Boo 2! A Madea Halloween
5.766/500
Madea and the gang encounter monsters, goblins and boogeymen at a haunted campground.
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Boo 2! A Madea Halloween
2019
A Madea Family Funeral
5.961/497
A joyous family reunion becomes a hilarious nightmare as Madea and the crew travel to backwoods Georgia, where they find themselves unexpectedly plann...
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A Madea Family Funeral
2018
Vice
7.013/3688
George W. Bush picks Dick Cheney, the CEO of Halliburton Co., to be his Republican running mate in the 2000 presidential election. No stranger to poli...
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Vice
2019
Aretha! A Grammy Celebration for the Queen of Soul
4/1
Tyler Perry hosts a tribute to the singer's legendary career, featuring performances from Yolanda Adams, Shirley Caesar, Alessia Cara, Kelly Clarkson,...
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Aretha! A Grammy Celebration for the Queen of Soul
2002
Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself - The Play
6.911/28
When Madea gets sick, her family comes to her aid. What they don't realize is that they're the ones who need her help. As always, Madea's cockeyed out...
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Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself - The Play
2001
Tyler Perry's Diary of a Mad Black Woman - The Play
7.1/25
Before it was a movie, it was a theatrical phenomenon! When Helen learns that her husband is leaving her for her best friend, the women in her family...
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Tyler Perry's Diary of a Mad Black Woman - The Play
2002
Tyler Perry's Madea's Family Reunion - The Play
6.558/86
The fireworks begin when Madea’s family gathers for her granddaughter’s wedding. As usual, Madea rules the roost, as she and her neighbor, the wacky M...
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Tyler Perry's Madea's Family Reunion - The Play
2021
Those Who Wish Me Dead
6.595/1912
A young boy finds himself pursued by two assassins in the Montana wilderness, with a survival expert determined to protect him, and a forest fire thre...
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Those Who Wish Me Dead
2020
A Fall from Grace
6.985/997
When a law-abiding woman gets indicted for murdering her husband, her lawyer soon realizes that a larger conspiracy may be at work.
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A Fall from Grace
2020
Tyler Perry's Madea's Farewell - The Play
7.8/18
In Tyler Perry's final performance as Madea, the beloved matriarch will grace the stage to help her family navigate their greatest challenge yet: each...
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Tyler Perry's Madea's Farewell - The Play
2021
Don't Look Up
7.055/9670
Two astronomers go on a media tour to warn humankind of a planet-killing comet hurtling toward Earth. The response from a distracted world: Meh.
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Don't Look Up
2021
PAW Patrol: The Movie
7.306/1289
Ryder and the pups are called to Adventure City to stop Mayor Humdinger from turning the bustling metropolis into a state of chaos.
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PAW Patrol: The Movie
2022
Tyler Perry's A Madea Homecoming
6.733/144
Madea's back - hallelujer! And she's not putting up with any nonsense as family drama erupts at her great-grandson's college graduation celebration.
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Tyler Perry's A Madea Homecoming
2020
John Lewis: Celebrating a Hero
6.6/5
Primetime special honoring the late civil rights leader John Lewis, featuring live musical performances and segments that examine his life, his work a...
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John Lewis: Celebrating a Hero
2026
Why Did I Get Married Again?
7/20
The couples reunite for the destination wedding of Marcus and Angela's daughter, bringing drama old and new as they ask, "Why did we get married again...
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Why Did I Get Married Again?
2004
Madea’s Christmas Special
0/0
After winning a TBN Christmas contest, Mr. Brown gathers Madea and Cora to dine with the Vanderherst family—the hosts of the dinner.
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Madea’s Christmas Special
Tyler Perry's Madea's Family Affair
0/0
When a family celebration brings relatives and friends together for a weekend, old secrets, unexpected relationships, and long-standing grudges quickl...
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