Tyler Perry
Tyler Perry is an American filmmaker, playwright, actor, comedian, and entrepreneur. 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 in I Can Do Bad All by Myself (1999) staged in Chicago.
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🎬 Movies
Joe's College Road Trip
actor
2026
Joe's College Road Trip
writer
2026
Joe's College Road Trip
director
2026
Tyler Perry's Finding Joy
writer
2025
Tyler Perry's Finding Joy
director
2025
Madea's Destination Wedding
actor
2025
Madea's Destination Wedding
writer
2025
Madea's Destination Wedding
director
2025
STRAW
director
2025
STRAW
writer
2025
Tyler Perry's Duplicity
director
2025
Tyler Perry's Duplicity
writer
2025
The Six Triple Eight
director
2024
The Six Triple Eight
writer
2024
Tyler Perry's Divorce in the Black
director
2024
Tyler Perry's Divorce in the Black
writer
2024
Mea Culpa
writer
2024
Mea Culpa
director
2024
A Jazzman's Blues
director
2022
A Jazzman's Blues
writer
2022
Tyler Perry's A Madea Homecoming
director
2022
Tyler Perry's A Madea Homecoming
writer
2022
Tyler Perry's A Madea Homecoming
actor
2022
Don't Look Up
actor
2021
Adele One Night Only
actor
2021
PAW Patrol: The Movie
actor
2021
Those Who Wish Me Dead
actor
2021
A Fall from Grace
actor
2020
A Fall from Grace
director
2020
A Fall from Grace
writer
2020
A Madea Family Funeral
director
2019
A Madea Family Funeral
writer
2019
A Madea Family Funeral
actor
2019
Vice
actor
2018
Nobody's Fool
director
2018
Nobody's Fool
writer
2018
Acrimony
director
2018
Acrimony
writer
2018
The Star
actor
2017
Boo 2! A Madea Halloween
actor
2017
Boo 2! A Madea Halloween
writer
2017
Boo 2! A Madea Halloween
director
2017
Brain on Fire
actor
2017
Boo! A Madea Halloween
actor
2016
Boo! A Madea Halloween
writer
2016
Boo! A Madea Halloween
director
2016
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
actor
2016
The Passion
actor
2016
Gone Girl
actor
2014
The Single Moms Club
writer
2014
The Single Moms Club
actor
2014
The Single Moms Club
director
2014
A Madea Christmas
director
2013
A Madea Christmas
actor
2013
A Madea Christmas
writer
2013
Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor
director
2013
Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor
writer
2013
Alex Cross
actor
2012
Madea's Witness Protection
director
2012
Madea's Witness Protection
writer
2012
Madea's Witness Protection
actor
2012
Good Deeds
actor
2012
Good Deeds
writer
2012
Good Deeds
director
2012
Madea's Big Happy Family
actor
2011
Madea's Big Happy Family
director
2011
Madea's Big Happy Family
writer
2011
For Colored Girls
writer
2010
For Colored Girls
director
2010
Why Did I Get Married Too?
actor
2010
Why Did I Get Married Too?
writer
2010
Why Did I Get Married Too?
director
2010
I Can Do Bad All By Myself
writer
2009
I Can Do Bad All By Myself
actor
2009
I Can Do Bad All By Myself
director
2009
Madea Goes to Jail
writer
2009
Madea Goes to Jail
director
2009
Madea Goes to Jail
actor
2009
Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys
writer
2008
Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys
actor
2008
Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys
director
2008
Meet the Browns
writer
2008
Meet the Browns
director
2008
Meet the Browns
actor
2008
Why Did I Get Married?
writer
2007
Why Did I Get Married?
actor
2007
Why Did I Get Married?
director
2007
Daddy's Little Girls
director
2007
Daddy's Little Girls
writer
2007
Madea Goes to Jail - The Play
director
2006
Madea Goes to Jail - The Play
actor
2006
Madea Goes to Jail - The Play
writer
2006
Madea's Family Reunion
actor
2006
Madea's Family Reunion
director
2006
Madea's Family Reunion
writer
2006
Diary of a Mad Black Woman
writer
2005
Diary of a Mad Black Woman
actor
2005
Sisters in Italy
director
📺 TV Shows
Miss Governor
creator
2025
Tyler Perry's Beauty in Black
executive_producer
2024
Caught Up
executive_producer
2023
Caught Up
creator
2023
Tyler Perry's Zatima
executive_producer
2022
All the Queen's Men
executive_producer
2021
Tyler Perry's Assisted Living
creator
2020
Tyler Perry's Bruh
creator
2020
Tyler Perry's Bruh
executive_producer
2020
Tyler Perry's Ruthless
creator
2020
Tyler Perry's Young Dylan
creator
2020
Tyler Perry's Young Dylan
executive_producer
2020
Tyler Perry's The Oval
creator
2019
Tyler Perry's Sistas
creator
2019
Tyler Perry's The Oval
executive_producer
2019
The Paynes
creator
2018
The Paynes
executive_producer
2018
Too Close to Home
creator
2016
Tyler Perry's If Loving You is Wrong
creator
2014
Tyler Perry's Love Thy Neighbor
creator
2013
Tyler Perry's The Haves and the Have Nots
creator
2013
Tyler Perry's The Haves and the Have Nots
executive_producer
2013
Tyler Perry's For Better or Worse
creator
2011
Tyler Perry's House of Payne
creator
2007
ABFF Honors: A Celebration of Hollywood
actor
2005
Where There's Smoke
executive_producer
