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.

Filmography

• 2026Doing Life — Director, Producer, Writer
• 2026Give Me Some Sugah — Producer
• 2026Joe's College Road Trip — Joe / Madea / Brian, Producer, Director, Writer
• Route 187 — Director, Production Executive
• 2026Strung — Producer
• 2026Why Did I Get Married Again? — Terry, Director, Writer, Producer
• 2025Madea's Destination Wedding — Madea / Brian / Joe, Director, Producer, Writer
• Miss Governor — Producer, Creator
• 2025Ruth & Boaz — Producer
• 2025STRAW — Director, Writer, Producer
• Tyler Perry's Divorced Sistas — Executive Producer, Creator
• 2025Tyler Perry's Duplicity — Director, Writer, Producer
• 2025Tyler Perry's Finding Joy — Director, Writer, Producer
• Beauty in Black — Director, Executive Producer, Writer, Creator
• 2024Mea Culpa — Writer, Director, Producer
• 2024The Six Triple Eight — Writer, Director, Producer
• 2024Tyler Perry's Divorce in the Black — Writer, Director, Producer
• Caught Up — Executive Producer
• 2022A Jazzman's Blues — Writer, Producer, Director
• 2022Tyler Perry's A Madea Homecoming — Madea / Uncle Joe, Executive Producer, Director, Writer
• Tyler Perry's Zatima — Director, Creator, Writer
• All the Queen's Men — Teleplay
• 2021Don't Look Up — Jack Bremmer
• 2021PAW Patrol: The Movie — Gus (voice)
• 2021Those Who Wish Me Dead — Arthur
• Wahl Street — Self - Founder & CEO, Tyler Perry Studios, Thanks
• #blackAF — Tyler Perry
• 2020A Fall from Grace — Rory, Director, Writer, Executive Producer
• 2020John Lewis: Celebrating a Hero
• Tyler Perry's Assisted Living — Director, Writer, Creator
• Tyler Perry's Bruh — Writer, Director, Creator
• 2020Tyler Perry's Madea's Farewell - The Play — Madea
• Tyler Perry's Ruthless — Creator
• Tyler Perry's Young Dylan — Director, Writer, Creator
• 2019A Madea Family Funeral — Mabel "Madea" Simmons / Joe / Brian / Heathrow, Director, Writer, Producer
• Tyler Perry's Sistas — Creator
• Tyler Perry's The Oval — Creator
• 2018Acrimony — Screenplay, Producer, Director
• 2018Nobody's Fool — Executive Producer, Director, Screenplay
• 2018Vice — Colin Powell
• 2017Boo 2! A Madea Halloween — Madea/Joe/Brian, Director, Writer, Producer
• 2017Brain on Fire — Richard
• 2017The Star — Cyrus (voice)
• 2017Tyler Perry's Madea on the Run - The Play — Madea, Writer, Director
• 2016Boo! A Madea Halloween — Mabel "Madea" Simmons / Uncle Joe Simmons / Brian Simmons, Producer, Writer, Director
• 2016Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows — Baxter Stockman
• 2016The Passion — Narrator
• Too Close to Home — Creator
• 2015Tyler Perry's Madea's Tough Love — Madea / Joe / Brian, Producer
• 2014Gone Girl — Tanner Bolt
• 2014The Single Moms Club — T.K., Producer, Director, Screenplay
• 2014Tyler Perry's Hell Hath No Fury Like a Woman Scorned - The Play — Writer, Producer, Director
• Tyler Perry's If Loving You Is Wrong — Creator
• 2014Tyler Perry's Madea's Neighbors from Hell - The Play — Madea, Director, Executive Producer, Writer
• 2013A Madea Christmas — Madea, Producer, Director, Screenplay
• Deadline: Crime with Tamron Hall
• Love Thy Neighbor — Madea, Creator
• Love Thy Neighbour — Creator
• 2013Peeples — Producer
• 2013Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor — Director, Producer, Screenplay
• 2013Tyler Perry's The Haves & The Have Nots - The Play — Writer, Director
• Tyler Perry's The Haves and the Have Nots — Producer, Writer, Director, Creator
• 2012Alex Cross — Dr. Alex Cross
• 2012Good Deeds — Wesley Deeds, Director, Screenplay, Producer
• 2012Madea's Witness Protection — Madea / Joe / Brian, Producer, Screenplay, Director
• 2012Tyler Perry's Aunt Bam's Place - The Play — Director, Writer
• 2012Tyler Perry's I Don't Want to Do Wrong - The Play — Writer, Director
• 2012Tyler Perry's Madea Gets A Job - The Play — Madea, Writer, Director, Producer
• 2011Madea's Big Happy Family — Madea / Joe / Self, Director, Writer, Producer
• 2011Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas - The Play — Madea, Writer, Director
• Tyler Perry's For Better or Worse — Producer, Creator
• 2010For Colored Girls — Director, Screenplay, Producer
• 2010Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family - The Play — Madea, Director, Writer
• 2010Why Did I Get Married Too? — Terry, Writer, Director, Producer
• 2009I Can Do Bad All By Myself — Madea, Director, Writer, Producer
• 2009Madea Goes to Jail — Madea / Joe / Brian, Writer, Director, Producer
• 2009Star Trek — Admiral Richard Barnett
• Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns — Creator
• 2009Tyler Perry's The Marriage Counselor - The Play — Producer, Director, Executive Producer, Writer
• 2008Meet the Browns — Madea / Joe, Producer, Director, Writer
• 2008Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys — Ben, Director, Producer, Writer
• 2008Tyler Perry's What's Done In The Dark - The Play — Writer, Producer, Director
• 2007Daddy's Little Girls — Director, Producer, Screenplay
• Tyler Perry's House of Payne — Producer, Director, Creator
• 2007Why Did I Get Married? — Terry, Director, Writer, Producer
• 2006Madea Goes to Jail - The Play — Madea, Director, Writer
• 2006Madea's Family Reunion — Madea / Brian / Joe, Director, Executive Producer, Theatre Play, Writer
• Rachael Ray
• 2006Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married - The Play — Director, Producer, Writer
• 2005Diary of a Mad Black Woman — Madea / Brian / Joe, Theatre Play, Writer, Executive Producer
• The Tyra Banks Show
• 2005Tyler Perry's Meet The Browns - The Play — Producer, Writer, Director
• 2004Madea’s Christmas Special — Madea, Director, Writer
• America's Next Top Model — Self - Guest, Guest - Archive Footage
• 2003Madea's Class Reunion - The Play — Mabel "Madea" Simmons / Dr. Willie Leroy Jones, Director, Producer, Writer
• 2002Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself - The Play — Mable 'Madea' Simmons, Director, Writer, Producer
• 2002Tyler Perry's Madea's Family Reunion - The Play — Mable 'Madea' Simmons, Director, Writer
• 2001Tyler Perry's Diary of a Mad Black Woman - The Play — Daddy Charles / Mable 'Madea' Simmons, Director, Producer, Writer
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
• I Am Yours — Producer
• Otra — Executive Producer
• Sister Act 3 — Producer
• Sisters in Italy — Director, Producer
• T — Executive Producer
• Tyler Perry's Confabulation — Director, Writer, Producer
• Tyler Perry's Madea's Family Affair — Madea / Joe / Brian, Director of Photography
• Tyler Perry's The Gospel of Christmas — Executive Producer, Director

Appearances as themselves (42)

• Seen & Heard: The History of Black Television — Self
• Hollywood Black — Self (archive footage)
• 2023Maxine's Baby: The Tyler Perry Story — Self
• Harry & Meghan — Self
• JANET JACKSON. — Self
• Sherri — Self - Guest
• The Jennifer Hudson Show — Self - Guest
• Who's Talking to Chris Wallace? — Self
• 20212021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony — Self
• Directors on Directors — Self
• Hart to Heart — Self
• 2021Tyler Perry: Man of Many Faces — Self
• A Little Late with Lilly Singh — Self
• 2019Aretha! A Grammy Celebration for the Queen of Soul — Self - Host
• The Kelly Clarkson Show — Self
• The Tamron Hall Show — Self - Guest
• Carpool Karaoke: The Series — Self
• OBJECTified — Self
• Steve — Self
• Chelsea — Self
• Jay Leno's Garage — Self
• Taraji's White Hot Holidays — Self
• The Late Late Show with James Corden — Self
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self - Guest
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self, Self - Guest
• 2012Eddie Murphy: One Night Only — Self
• Conan — Self
• 2009The Black List: Volume Two — Self
• Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen — Self - Guest
• The Graham Norton Show — Self
• The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson — Self
• The Tony Danza Show — Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self - Guest
• The View — Self, Self - Guest
• The Daily Show — Self
• GMTV — Self
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien — Self - Guest
• LIVE with Kelly and Mark — Self, Self - Guest
• Kids' Choice Awards — Self - Presenter
• Entertainment Tonight — Self
• People's Choice Awards — Self - Winner
• The Oscars — Self