Tyler Perry

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Birth Name: Emmitt R. Perry, Jr.

Age: 53, born 13 September 1969

Country of origin: United States

Height: 6' 5"

Relationship Status: Single

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Celebrity Insults (180 items)
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Published 11 years, 4 months ago

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Man, I feel like a woman (56 items)
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Published 13 years, 5 months ago

34 comments

58 votes

What A Drag (22 items)
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Published 12 years, 6 months ago

10 comments

33 votes

People...Black Actors (887 items)
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Published 9 years ago

1 comment

25 votes

Directors with Movies on Imdb Bottom 100 List (99 items)
list by Mustanaamio7

Published 13 years, 3 months ago

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Description: 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 ... (more)

Tags: Annoying (4), Not Funny (3), Director (3), Talentless (2), Makes The Same Crap (2), Actor (2), Never Meet (1), Successful (1), Stereotyping (1), Colorist (1), PLEASE STOP (1), Anti-humor (1), Heller! (1), Pandering (1), Madea (1), Worse Director (1), Stop This Crossdressing Negro (1), Not A Good Director (1)

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1. The Daily Show (1996)

Rating:

7.6

1099 Watched

2. Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2003)

Rating:

6.5

792 Watched

3. America's Next Top Model (2003)

Rating:

6.1

790 Watched

4. The Colbert Report (2005)

Rating:

7.6

717 Watched

5. Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993)

Rating:

7.3

630 Watched

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1. Star Trek (2009)

Rating:

7.6

2708 Watched

2. Gone Girl (2014)

Rating:

7.8

1422 Watched

3. Don't Look Up

Rating:

6.4

329 Watched

4. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016)

Rating:

5.2

220 Watched

5. Vice

Rating:

6.4

169 Watched

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1. Diary of a Mad Black Woman

Rating:

6.6

87 Watched

2. Madea's Family Reunion

Rating:

6.7

83 Watched

3. Why Did I Get Married? (2007)

Rating:

7.3

67 Watched

4. Madea Goes to Jail

Rating:

6.9

67 Watched

5. For Colored Girls (1980)

Rating:

7.2

40 want to see

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1. Madea's Family Reunion

Rating:

6.7

83 Watched

2. Why Did I Get Married? (2007)

Rating:

7.3

67 Watched

3. Madea Goes to Jail

Rating:

6.9

67 Watched

4. For Colored Girls (1980)

Rating:

7.2

40 want to see

5. Meet the Browns (2008)

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46 Watched

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1. House of Payne (2006)

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6.4

24 Watched

2. Meet the Browns (2009)

Rating:

6.9

14 Watched

3. The Haves and the Have Nots

Rating:

10 Watched

4. For Better or Worse

Rating:

6.3

7 Watched

5. If Loving You Is Wrong (2014)

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5 Watched

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1. House of Payne (2006)

Rating:

6.4

24 Watched

2. Meet the Browns (2009)

Rating:

6.9

14 Watched

3. The Haves and the Have Nots

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10 Watched

4. For Better or Worse

Rating:

6.3

7 Watched

5. If Loving You Is Wrong (2014)

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Tribute...Black directors...Behind the camera (79 person items)

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Notable African Americans who helped pave the way (64 person items)

"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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"Not a good director. Never gonna have a classical period Write the same thing in every movie, tv, plays he make Sexist,Low-Key Colorist and Classist. Just because you have crazy work ethic doesn't excuse you from making shitty stuff The best thing he did was put Madea out of our misery "