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Tyler Perry (born Emmitt Perry Jr., 1969) is an American actor, writer, producer, comedian, and director.

Forbes named him as the highest paid man in entertainment in 2011, earning $130 million USD between May 2010 and May 2011. Perry created and performed the Madea character, a tough elderly black woman.

Perry's films range in style from traditional filmmaking techniques to filmed productions of live stage plays.

Many of Perry's stage-play films have since been made into films. During the 1990s and early 2000s, Perry wrote and produced many stage plays.

Perry has produced several television series, most notable Tyler Perry's House of Payne, which appeared on TBS from June 21, 2006 to August 10, 2012.

Perry began a long-term relationship with Oprah Winfrey and her Oprah Winfrey Network on October 2, 2012.

The alliance was largely for the sake of scripted television, based on Perry's previous successes in this sector.

Perry has produced several scripted series for the network, The Haves and the Have Nots being the most popular.

As of 2014, the Haves and the Have Nots has received the highest ratings to date, with the series also listed as "one of OWN's top success stories" due to its weekly dose of soapy fun, filled with the usual betrayals, affairs, and manipulations. "Perry has also appeared in films not directed or produced by himself, including Admiral Barnett in Star Trek (2009), Tanner Bolt in Gone Girl (2014), Baxter Stockman in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016) and Colin Powell in Vice (2018)."

Early life

Willie Maxine Perry (née Campbell), and Emmitt Perry Sr., a carpenter, were born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He has three siblings. He once said that his father's answer to all was to "beat it out of you." Perry even went so far as to attempt suicide in an attempt to escape his father's beatings as a child. His father took him to church every week, where he felt a certain peace and contentment. In an attempt to distance himself from his father, Emmitt was legally changed to Tyler at age 16.

Perry was pushed to reveal that he had been molested by a friend's mother at the age of ten, and later discovered that his own father had molested his sister. Emmitt Sr. was not Perry's biological father, according to a DNA test performed by Perry.

Although Perry did not complete high school, he obtained a GCED (GED). In his early 20s, he heard someone talk about the sometimes curative effect of writing, allowing the writer to explore his or her own difficulties. Inspired by this comment, he's decided to dedicate himself to a writing career. He began writing a series of letters to himself, which became the basis of the musical I've Been Changed.

Personal life

Perry is a Christian. He has made good friends with Janet Jackson, Will Smith, and Oprah Winfrey. Many of the themes in his work resemble theology and socioeconomic environment that characterize the mainly black church tradition, such as the numerous scenes in both his stage and screen production that feature church settings and worship styles typical of African American churches, as well as exhibits of gospel music and artists.

Perry purchased a 17-acre home in Buckhead, Georgia's Paces neighborhood in 2007. He sold the house for $17.5 million in May 2016, closing the highest private home auction in the Georgia capital ever. ETPC LLC, a New Manchester, Georgia company, purchased around 1,100 acres (4.5 km2) in the New Manchester, Georgia area of Douglas County, Georgia, in 2013.

After finding that a suburban swim club, the Valley Swim Club in Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania, had shunned them, Perry sponsored 65 children from a Philadelphia day camp to Walt Disney World on July 20, 2009. "I want them to know that for every act of violence that a few people will throw at you," he wrote on his website.

Willie Maxine Perry Perry, Perry's mother, died at the age of 64 in 2009 after an illness. He lives and works in Southwest Atlanta, where he runs the Tyler Perry film and television studios. He had purchased Dean Gardens, a 58-acre estate in Johns Creek, Georgia, in August 2010. He tore down the existing 32,000-square-foot (3,000 m2) mansion and designed, but there was never designed or constructed a new, environmentally friendly home on the property.

Perry's partner, Gelila Bekele, gave birth to their son on November 30, 2014. Perry revealed in December 2020 that he was a single bachelor.

Perry bought a house in Mulholland Estates, a gated community in Los Angeles, in September 2017.

Perry owns vacation homes in both Wyoming and the Bahamas.

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, and Meghan Duchess of Sussex revealed in a television interview with Oprah and Harry that Perry provided initial security and housing for three months, allowing the couple to safely move from Canada to California in March 2020.

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Career

Perry, who died in Atlanta in 1990, performed I've Been Changed at a community theater, financed by the 22-year-old Perry's $12,000 life savings. The play included Christian themes of forgiveness, dignity, and self-worth, as well as other topics such as child violence and dysfunctional families. The musical's first performance was a financial disappointment and attracted a "less than stellar" reception. Perry continued to write the script and rewrote the script over the next six years, but poor reviews persisted. In 1998, he succeeded in retooling the play and restaging it in Atlanta, first at the House of Blues and then at the Fox Theatre. Perry continued to produce new stage performances, touring with them on the so-called "Chitlin' Circuit" (also known as the "urban theater circuit") and gaining a large, dedicated following among African-American audiences. In 2005, Forbes reported that he had sold "more than $100 million in tickets, $30 million in videos of his performances, and an estimated $20 million in merchandise," and "the 300 live shows he produces each year are watched by an average of 35,000 people a week."

Perry's first film, Diary of a Mad Black Woman, which went on to gross US$50.6 million domestically, attained a 16% approval rating by the film critique web site Rotten Tomatoes, raised a US$5.5 million budget in part from the ticket sales of his stage productions to finance his first film, Diary of a Mad Black Woman. Perry made his directorial debut on his next film, an adaptation of Madea's Family Reunion, and he has produced all of his subsequent Madea films. Madea's Family Reunion opened at number one at the box office on February 24-24, 2006, despite being open on Sunday. The film eventually grossed $65 million. On The Oprah Winfrey Show, Perry and his co-stars marketed the film. Almost all of Madea's income was generated in the United States, as with Diary.

Gabrielle Union and Idris Elba were among Perry's new Lionsgate projects, Daddy's Little Girls, which was released in the United States on February 14, 2007. Its revenues exceeded US$31 million. Perry wrote, directed, produced, and starred in his upcoming film, Why Did I Get Married?, which was released on October 12, 2007. The weekend was the first week of a new one, grossing US$21.4 million. It is based on his play of the same name. Filming began in Whistler, British Columbia, a resort town north of Vancouver, and then moved to Atlanta, where Perry had opened his own studio. Janet Jackson, Sharon Leal, Jill Scott, and Tasha Smith were among the film's stars. Meet the Browns, Perry's 2008 film, debuted on March 21 and debuted at No. 2 with a US$20.1 million weekend gross. The Family That Preys opened in September 12, 2008, grossing over US$37.1 million.

Madea Goes to Jail opened at number one on February 20, 2009, grossing US$41 million and his highest opening to date. This was Perry's seventh film with Lionsgate Entertainment. Perry was small in the Star Trek commandant Admiral Barnett's role in 2009, which opened on May 8. This was his first film appearance outside of his own projects. Perry wrote, directed, and starred in the movie I Can Do Bad By Myself (2009), which was based on his Madea character. This was Perry's eighth film and it also ranked number one at the box office. Perry, a student at the University of Oxford, joined Oprah Winfrey in 2009 to present Precious, the sequel to Why Did I Get Married? Janet Jackson, Tasha Smith, Jill Scott, and Malik Yoba were among the shows on display. The film earned US$60 million domestically, with US$29 million netting in the first weekend.

Perry produced a film version of Ntozake Shange's 1975 choreopoem For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf, which was released in theaters on November 5, 2010, was a film about the Rainbow Is Enuf. He appeared in the stage play Madea's Big Happy Family, which toured the United States as a stage play and was released as a film in 2011, written, directed by, and starring Perry. The film version of Madea's Big Happy Family debuted in the box office for $25.8 million, taking second place. Good Deeds, Perry's next film with Lionsgate, in which Perry plays lead character Wesley Deeds, is the upcoming film with Lionsgate. Good Deeds is a romantic drama film written, directed by, and starring Perry Perry. The film was released on February 24, 2012. It's the tenth of 11 films that Perry produced and appeared in. Rotten Tomatoes, a review company, gave the film a 29% rating and opened with a box office of US$15.5 million gross. Thandie Newton, Rebecca Romijn, Gabrielle Union, Eddie Cibrian, Jamie Kennedy, Phylicia Rashad, and others appear in the film.

Perry's films had grossing over US$500 million worldwide as of June 2011. Madea's Witness Protection, Perry's seventh film within the Madea series, was released on June 29, 2012.

For a new film in the series called Alex Cross, Perry took over the role of James Patterson's Alex Cross from Morgan Freeman. Critics and audiences blasted the film, which ultimately became a box office bomb, with Rotten Tomatoes scores of 11% and 47% positive respectively. Director David Fincher, who later starred Perry in his 2014 thriller Gone Girl, co-starring Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, and Neil Patrick Harris, captured his admiration.

On March 29, 2013, Perry released his thirteenth film, Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor, based on his 2008 film of the same name). Lance Gross, Jurnee Smollett, Brandy Norwood, Robbie Jones, Vanessa L. Williams, and Kim Kardashian appear in the film. Tyler Perry Presents Peeples, a writer who was born in 1983, was released on May 10, 2013. With A Madea Christmas, he returned to the big screen, which was announced on December 13, 2013. Perry produced The Single Moms Club, which opened on March 14, 2014. Madea's Tough Love, his first animated film, was released on DVD on January 20, 2015. Perry played scientist Baxter Stockman in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows in 2016. Perry began filming in mid-January 2016 for his seventeenth film and ninth within the Made in a Republic franchise, Boo! It's a Made in Italy Halloween. The film was released on October 21, 2016.

A sequel, Boo 2!

In October 2017, a Made a Halloween was born. Perry, alongside Oprah Winfrey, appeared in his first computer-animated film, The Star, which is based on Jesus' Nativity. The film, directed by Sony Pictures Animation, was released on November 17, 2017.

Perry's films are co-produced and distributed by Lions Gate Entertainment; he maintains full copyright ownership under the corporate name Tyler Perry Films; and his name appears in front of all titles. Perry's films have had a limited distribution outside of North America, but Lionsgate announced plans to begin releasing his films in the United Kingdom in May 2010.

Tyler Perry's House of Payne, a long-running sitcom, ran for 8 seasons from June 21, 2006, to August 10, 2012. The series followed an African-American family for three generations. The show on display displayed the family members' serious, true-to-life struggles with faith and love. As a 10-show pilot, the show appeared in the spring of 2006. Perry has signed a US$200 million-100-episode contract with TBS after the successful pilot run. On June 6, 2007, the first two episodes of Tyler Perry's House of Payne premiered on TBS. House of Payne debuted on television syndication after receiving high ratings. Before the second season, reruns were played through December 2007. Perry wrote, directed, and produced Meet the Browns, the sitcom that premiered on TBS on January 7, 2009 and concluded on November 18, 2011.

Perry began an exclusive multi-year collaboration with Oprah Winfrey and the Oprah Winfrey Network on October 2, 2012 (OWN). Perry had previous success in this sector and was mainly for the purpose of getting scripted television to OWN.

For Better or Worse by Tyler Perry, a film based on his films Why Did I Get Married? Why Did I Get Married Too? premiered on TBS on November 25, 2011. The series was cancelled by TBS in February 2013, but OWN's third season, which began on September 18, 2013, was revived.

Perry had two other television series on OWN: the hour-long soap opera/drama collection The Haves and the Have Nots, as well as the sitcom Love Thy Neighbor. The Haves and the Have Nots premiered on May 28, 2013, and the series ended after 8 seasons on July 20, 2021. Oprah Winfrey lauded the program for contributing to her network and opening the door for a slew of other highly rated dramas to OWN. During their series run, The Haves and the Have Nots reached new Nielsen ratings for the OWN broadcasting station: On May 29, 2013, the Haves and the Have Nots set a new OWN record, with the highest ratings ever for a series premiere on the network. Love Thy Neighbor received the second most popular television show on OWN, behind The Haves and the Have Nots. Allerdings, Love Thy Neighbor had failed in ratings, despite this. For the most part, the Have and the Have Nots were the network's highest rated service. The Haves and the Have Nots was the most watched program on cable television for the night on February 4, 2014. A Haves and the Have Nots season 2 episode set the highest ratings in the network's history on March 11, 2014. The new series of viewers at 3.6 million viewers, beating the 3.5 million that tuned in for Bobbi Kristina's Next Chapter interview, the network's first highest-rated viewing session.

If Loving You Is Wrong, Perry's fourth scripted series (and fourth series by Perry) based on Perry's continuing relationship with OWN, Ordering if Loving You Is Wrong was ordered on January 9, 2014. On September 9, 2014, the hour-long drama series premiered.

Perry converted Fort McPherson, a 330-acre former military base in Atlanta, into studios in 2015. The studios were used to film The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a HBO Films/OWN film version of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, and it's now in production for the television series The Walking Dead. The site's 50,000 square feet have been dedicated to standing permanent sets, including a replica of a luxurious hotel lobby, a White House replica, a mock cheap hotel, a trailer park, and a real 1950s-style diner relocated from a town 100 miles away; it also hosts 12 sound stages named after highly respected African-Americans in the entertainment industry. Perry's account on February 19, 2018 said the blockbuster Marvel film, Black Panther, was the first to be shot on one of Tyler Perry Studios' new stages, as Perry revealed personally on his Instagram page.

Tyler Perry Studios is one of the country's second black cinema chain to outright own a major film studio after Tim and Daphne Reid.

Perry signed a long-term contract with Viacom (now ViacomCBS) for 90 episodes/year of original drama and comedy series on June 14, 2017. The first film from this arrangement was Nobody's Fool, and Viacom will also have distribution rights to short video clips and a first glance at film concepts. With strong ratings for BET, the TV contract began in fall 2019 with The Oval, Sistas, and BET+ (a brand new subscription service) premiering.

Don't Make a Black Woman Take off Her Earrings: Madea's Uninhibited Commentaries on Love and Life appeared on April 11, 2006. The book was sold in 30,000 copies. The hardcover reached number one on the New York Times Best Seller list, and it remained on the list for a year. At the 2006 Quill Awards, it was named Book of the Year and Best Humor Book.

On November 14, 2017, his second book, Higher Is Waiting, was published. It debuted on the New York Times Best Seller list at number five.

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