Tyler Perry

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Birth Name: Emmitt R. Perry, Jr.

Age: 52, 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 10 years, 3 months ago

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Man, I feel like a woman (56 items)
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Published 12 years, 3 months ago

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What A Drag (22 items)
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Published 11 years, 4 months ago

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People...Celebrity Black Male Actors (861 items)
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Published 7 years, 10 months ago

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Directors with Movies on Imdb Bottom 100 List (99 items)
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Published 12 years, 1 month ago

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Tyler Perry Videos

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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

1083 Watched

2. America's Next Top Model (2003)

Rating:

6.1

789 Watched

3. The Colbert Report (2005)

Rating:

7.6

713 Watched

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

Rating:

7.2

608 Watched

5. The Oprah Winfrey Show (1986)

Rating:

5.2

452 Watched

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1. Star Trek (2009)

Rating:

7.6

2696 Watched

2. Gone Girl (2014)

Rating:

7.8

1394 Watched

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

Rating:

5.2

213 Watched

4. Vice (2018)

Rating:

6.4

157 Watched

5. Alex Cross (2012)

Rating:

4.7

126 Watched

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1. Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005)

Rating:

6.6

88 Watched

2. Madea's Family Reunion (2006)

Rating:

6.7

82 Watched

3. Why Did I Get Married? (2007)

Rating:

7.3

69 Watched

4. Madea Goes to Jail (2009)

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 (2006)

Rating:

6.7

82 Watched

2. Why Did I Get Married? (2007)

Rating:

7.3

69 Watched

3. Madea Goes to Jail (2009)

Rating:

6.9

67 Watched

4. For Colored Girls (1980)

Rating:

7.2

40 want to see

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

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6.7

44 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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5 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

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

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Controversy follow them wherever they go or say (39 products items)

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Tribute...Black excellance (161 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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Celebrities I hate (36 person items)

"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 "