Tyler Perry
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Birth Name: Emmitt R. Perry, Jr.
Age: 55, born 13 September 1969
Country of origin: United States
Height: 6' 5"
Relationship Status: Single
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Celebrity Insults
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Published 13 years, 10 months ago
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Man, I feel like a woman
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Published 15 years, 10 months ago
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People...Black Actors
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Published 11 years, 5 months ago
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Directors with Movies on Imdb Bottom 100 List
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Published 15 years, 8 months ago
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Perry was born and raised in New Orleans. His mother was a church-goer and took Perry along with her once a week. His father was a carpenter and they had a very strained and abusive relationship, which led Perry to suffer from depression as a teenager.
In 1991, he was working an office job, when he saw an episode of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" (1986) discussing the therapeutic nature of writing. This inspired him to begin writing and he worked through his bad experiences by writing letters to himself. He adapted his letters into a play, 'I Know I've Changed', about domestic abuse. Unfortunately, after renting a theater
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1. The Daily Show (1996)
Rating: | 1155 Watched |

2. The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2003)
Rating: | 859 Watched |

3. America's Next Top Model (2003)
Rating: | 798 Watched |

4. The Colbert Report (2005)
Rating: | 729 Watched |

5. Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993)
Rating: | 682 Watched |
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1. Star Trek (2009)
Rating: | 2750 Watched |

2. Gone Girl (2014)
Rating: | 1479 Watched |

3. Don't Look Up (2021)
Rating: | 395 Watched |

5. Vice (2018)
Rating: | 185 Watched |
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1. Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005)
Rating: | 89 Watched |

3. Why Did I Get Married? (2007)
Rating: | 68 Watched |

4. Madea Goes to Jail (2009)
Rating: | 68 Watched |

5. For Colored Girls (2010)
Rating: | 40 want to see |
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2. Why Did I Get Married? (2007)
Rating: | 68 Watched |

3. Madea Goes to Jail (2009)
Rating: | 68 Watched |

4. For Colored Girls (2010)
Rating: | 40 want to see |

5. Meet the Browns (2008)
Rating: | 47 Watched |
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1. House of Payne (2006)
Rating: | 25 Watched |

2. Meet the Browns (2009)
Rating: | 14 Watched |

3. The Haves and the Have Nots (2013)
Rating: | 10 Watched |

5. If Loving You Is Wrong (2014)
Rating: | 5 Watched |
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1. House of Payne (2006)
Rating: | 25 Watched |

2. Meet the Browns (2009)
Rating: | 14 Watched |

3. The Haves and the Have Nots (2013)
Rating: | 10 Watched |

5. If Loving You Is Wrong (2014)
Rating: | 5 Watched |
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"In response to feeling ignored in Hollywood, Tyler Perry decided to take matters into his own hands -- by creating his own film studio, Tyler Perry Studios, which opened in Atlanta in 2019. In addition to establishing himself as the first African American to have outright ownership of a major film studio, Tyler Perry Studios is also the biggest production studio in America."
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