Tyler Perry

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Birth Name: Emmitt R. Perry, Jr.

Age: 56, born 13 September 1969

Country of origin: United States

Height: 6' 5"

Relationship Status: Single

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Celebrity Insults (179 items)
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Published 14 years, 10 months ago

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Man, I feel like a woman (56 items)
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Published 16 years, 10 months ago

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What A Drag (22 items)
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Published 15 years, 11 months ago

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People...Black Actors (887 items)
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Published 12 years, 5 months ago

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People...Black directors (120 items)
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Published 12 years, 5 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), Director (3), Not Funny (2), Overrated (2), Makes The Same Crap (2), Actor (2), Successful (1), Rich (1), Talentless (1), Virgo (1), Stereotyping (1), Colorist (1), Privileged (1), PLEASE STOP (1), Never Meet (1), Anti-humor (1), Heller! (1), Pandering (1), Madea (1)

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1. The Daily Show (1996)

Rating:

7.8

1214 Watched

2. The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2003)

Rating:

6.4

910 Watched

3. America's Next Top Model (2003)

Rating:

6.1

808 Watched

4. The Colbert Report (2005)

Rating:

7.6

740 Watched

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

Rating:

7.6

722 Watched

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1. Star Trek (2009)

Rating:

7.6

2759 Watched

2. Gone Girl (2014)

Rating:

7.8

1493 Watched

3. Don't Look Up (2021)

Rating:

6.6

409 Watched

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

Rating:

5.4

249 Watched

5. Vice (2018)

Rating:

6.6

189 Watched

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1. Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005)

Rating:

6.7

89 Watched

2. Madea's Family Reunion

Rating:

6.6

85 Watched

3. Madea Goes to Jail (2009)

Rating:

6.9

69 Watched

4. Why Did I Get Married? (2007)

Rating:

7.3

68 Watched

5. For Colored Girls (2010)

Rating:

7.3

40 want to see

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1. Madea's Family Reunion

Rating:

6.6

85 Watched

2. Madea Goes to Jail (2009)

Rating:

6.9

69 Watched

3. Why Did I Get Married? (2007)

Rating:

7.3

68 Watched

4. For Colored Girls (2010)

Rating:

7.3

40 want to see

5. Why Did I Get Married Too? (2010)

Rating:

6.6

45 Watched

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1. House of Payne (2006)

Rating:

6.4

25 Watched

2. Meet the Browns (2009)

Rating:

6.9

14 Watched

3. The Haves and the Have Nots (2013)

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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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5 Watched

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1. House of Payne (2006)

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6.4

25 Watched

2. Meet the Browns (2009)

Rating:

6.9

14 Watched

3. The Haves and the Have Nots (2013)

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10 Watched

4. For Better or Worse

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6.3

7 Watched

5. If Loving You Is Wrong (2014)

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Actors who played the opposite gender (58 person items)

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Portrayals Law Enforcement Heroes (51 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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Behind the camera...Black directors (75 person items)

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