Tyler Perry
Emmitt Perry, Jr.
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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…
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