Vem daterade Tyler Perry?

Tyler Perry (födelsenamn Emmitt Perry, Jr.), född 13 september 1969 i New Orleans, Louisiana, är en amerikansk skådespelare, regissör, manusförfattare och producent.

Perrys barndom var svår. Han bytte förnamn till Tyler vid 16 års ålder för att inte ha samma namn som sin våldsamme far. Han började skriva som en form av terapi. Runt 1990 flyttade han till Atlanta där hans första pjäs, I Know I've Been Changed, hade premiär 1992. Den var ursprungligen en flopp och Perry hade svåra ekonomiska problem men vid nypremiär 1998 blev den en succé.

Karaktären Madea, en äldre snabbkäftad afroamerikansk kvinna, syntes först i Perrys pjäs I Can Do Bad All by Myself år 2000. Hon var också huvudpersonen i Perrys första film, Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005), som med en budget på runt $5,5 miljoner blev en stor succé och drog in över $50 miljoner i biljettintäkter i USA. Denna film följdes av Madea's Family Reunion (2006) och karaktären har synts i flera filmer sedan dess. Perry har också skrivit och regisserat filmer som Daddy's Little Girls, Why Did I Get Married?, dess uppföljare Why Did I Get Married Too? samt The Family That Preys och For Colored Girls, den sistnämnda efter en pjäs av Ntozake Shange. Han har också producerat TV-serierna Meet the Browns och House of Payne. 2011 toppade han Forbes lista över de högst betalda personerna i underhållningsbranschen med $130 miljoner i inkomst mellan maj 2010 och maj 2011. Perry äger sin egen filmstudio, Tyler Perry Studios.

Som skådespelare har Perry också, förutom i sina egna filmer, synts i en liten roll i filmen Star Trek (2009) och 2012 spelade han James Pattersons romanfigur Alex Cross (i tidigare filmer spelad av Morgan Freeman) i Alex Cross.

Trots sin stora popularitet i USA har Perrys filmer fått begränsat genomslag utanför hemlandet. Han har kritiserats av bland andra Spike Lee och Jamilah Lemieux för negativa stereotyper av svarta.

Den amerikanska ekonomitidskriften Forbes rankade Perry till att vara världens 2 282:a rikaste med en förmögenhet på en miljard amerikanska dollar för den 23 november 2020.

Tyler Perry (born Emmitt Perry Jr.; September 13, 1969) is an American actor, filmmaker, and playwright. He is the creator and performer of Mabel "Madea" Simmons, a tough elderly woman, and also portrays her brother Joe Simmons and her nephew Brian Simmons. Perry's films vary in style from orthodox filmmaking techniques to filmed productions of live stage plays, many of which have been subsequently adapted into feature films. Madea's first appearance was in I Can Do Bad All by Myself (1999) staged in Chicago.

Perry wrote and produced many stage plays, which were at their successful peak in the 1990s and the 2000s. His breakthrough performance came in 2005 with the film Diary of a Mad Black Woman, which he wrote and produced as an adaptation of his stage play of the same name. He also developed numerous television series, most notably Tyler Perry's House of Payne, which ran for eight seasons on TBS from 2006 to 2012, before being renewed in 2020. In 2011, Forbes listed him as the highest-paid man in entertainment, earning $130 million between May 2010 and May 2011. In 2012, Perry struck an exclusive multi-year partnership with Oprah Winfrey and her Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN). The deal featured scripted projects such as The Haves and the Have Nots. In 2019, he produced the political drama series The Oval for BET.

Outside of his own productions, Perry has been cast in numerous Hollywood films including Star Trek (2009), Alex Cross (2012), Gone Girl (2014), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016), Vice (2018), Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021), and Don't Look Up (2021). Perry has also done voice acting for animated films such as The Star (2017) and Paw Patrol: The Movie (2021).

Perry's films and shows have cumulatively grossed over $660 million, and his net worth is an estimated $1 billion, making him one of the richest people in the entertainment industry. Despite commercial success, his productions have received criticism from critics and scholars who believe his films perpetuate negative or offensive portrayals of African Americans, along with the critical reception itself being largely negative. In 2020, Perry was included in Time's list of the 100 most influential people and received the Governor's Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Additionally, he received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award from the Academy Awards in 2021, and was inducted into the Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame the following year.