Emerging from a troubled childhood in New Orleans, he changed his name to Tyler as a teen, earned a GED, and was motivated by a comment on The Oprah Winfrey Show to start writing, leading to his first play I Know I've Been Changed, staged in Atlanta in the early 1990s. After years of rewrites and touring the urban-theater circuit, he built a devoted African-American audience and eventually sold ov… Read more
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Known for Gone Girl 2014 Star Trek 2009 Don't Look Up 2021 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows 2016 Series ★ 7.6 Tyler Perry's House of Payne 2007
★ 7.5 Tyler Perry's Madea on the Run - The Play 2017
Madea ★ 7.5 Madea Goes to Jail - The Play 2006
Madea Series ★ 7.3 Love Thy Neighbor 2013
Madea ★ 7.3 Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family - The Play 2010
Madea ★ 7.2 Tyler Perry's Madea Gets A Job - The Play 2012
Madea ★ 7.1 Tyler Perry's Madea's Neighbors from Hell - The Play 2014
Madea ★ 7.1 Tyler Perry's Diary of a Mad Black Woman - The Play 2001
Daddy Charles / Mable 'Madea' Simmons ★ 7 A Fall from Grace 2020
Rory ★ 6.9 Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys 2008
Ben ★ 6.9 Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself - The Play 2002
Mable 'Madea' Simmons ★ 6.7 Tyler Perry's A Madea Homecoming 2022
Madea / Uncle Joe ★ 6.7 Madea's Big Happy Family 2011
Madea / Joe / Self ★ 6.7 Madea's Class Reunion - The Play 2003
Mabel "Madea" Simmons / Dr. Willie Leroy Jones ★ 6.6 Tyler Perry's Madea's Tough Love 2015
Madea / Joe / Brian ★ 6.6 Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas - The Play 2011
Madea ★ 6.6 Why Did I Get Married Too? 2010
Terry ★ 6.6 Meet the Browns 2008
Madea / Joe ★ 6.6 Why Did I Get Married? 2007
Terry ★ 6.6 Tyler Perry's Madea's Family Reunion - The Play 2002
Mable 'Madea' Simmons ★ 6.5 The Star 2017
Cyrus (voice) ★ 6.5 Madea Goes to Jail 2009
Madea / Joe / Brian ★ 6.5 Diary of a Mad Black Woman 2005
Madea / Brian / Joe ★ 6.4 A Madea Christmas 2013
Madea ★ 6.3 Good Deeds 2012
Wesley Deeds ★ 6.3 I Can Do Bad All By Myself 2009
Madea ★ 6.3 Madea's Family Reunion 2006
Madea / Brian / Joe ★ 6.2 Madea's Destination Wedding 2025
Madea / Brian / Joe ★ 6.1 Joe's College Road Trip 2026
Joe / Madea / Brian ★ 6.1 Madea's Witness Protection 2012
Madea / Joe / Brian Series ★ 6 #blackAF 2020
Tyler Perry ★ 6 A Madea Family Funeral 2019
Mabel "Madea" Simmons / Joe / Brian / Heathrow ★ 6 The Single Moms Club 2014
T.K. ★ 5.8 Boo 2! A Madea Halloween 2017
Madea/Joe/Brian ★ 5.8 Boo! A Madea Halloween 2016
Mabel "Madea" Simmons / Uncle Joe Simmons / Brian Simmons Series ★ 5.3 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno 1992
Series ★ 5.1 Rachael Ray 2006
Series ★ 5 The Tyra Banks Show 2005
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