Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eighteen years ago, Tyler Perry brought his DIY play to the big screen. Released in 2005, “Diary of a Mad Black Woman” chronicles ...

This year marks 20 years of Madea movies, dating back to her screen debut in 2005's Diary of a Mad Black Woman Perry tells PEOPLE he is "filled with a tremendous amount of pride" that the character ...

Mabel "Madea" Simmons is a character created and portrayed by Tyler Perry. The character is a tough elderly black woman. Madea has appeared in several plays directed by, written by, and starring Tyler ...

Tyler Perry is more than just Madea. Along with the iconic, no-nonsense matriarch, the mastermind behind the 13-film franchise has taken on a handful of other roles throughout the Madea-verse over the ...

Mabel "Madea" Simmons is a character created and portrayed by Tyler Perry. The character is a tough elderly black woman. Madea has appeared in several plays directed by, written by, and starring Tyler ...

For many, especially black people who see in her a mockery of our own grandmothers, Tyler Perry’s Madea is little more than a mammy — an insult to the matriarchal community figure that Perry claims to ...

Although the Madea franchise is still anathema to critics, this has not stopped its latest movie, Joe’s College Road Trip, from dominating Netflix’s most-watched chart in America this weekend. Tyler ...

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Tyler Perry has managed to sculpt an empire around Madea (full name Mabel Earlene Simmons), the no-nonsense matriarch he first portrayed in the 1999 play "I Can Do Bad All By Myself." Madea has a ...