For 20 years, Tyler Perry's Madea has delivered laughs, tough love and some valuable life lessons in between. Madea, short for Mabel Simmons, is the no-filter grandmother figure fans have grown to ...

Perri Nemiroff is the 2025 Press Award winner at the ICG Publicists Awards. She's the senior producer at Collider where she hosts and produces the interview series, Collider Ladies Night, a show ...

Tyler Perry‘s most famous character, Madea, has appeared in nearly half the director’s films: a gun-toting, “Hallelu-yer”-shouting force of nature, and an outrageous drag tribute to his mother and ...

'Tyler Perry's Madea's Farewell Play' might not be the last time we see the gun-toting matriarch. Here’s what Perry dished about the character's future. Before Perry struck creative gold in Hollywood, ...

Eighteen years ago, Tyler Perry brought his DIY play to the big screen. Released in 2005, “Diary of a Mad Black Woman” chronicles one beleaguered woman’s journey to healing and self-discovery after ...

Tyler Perry’s big, brassy, Craftsman-sized, Sears-housecoat-wearing auntie is back in the comedy, "Madea's Witness Protection." This time, she’s hosting a family headed by funny man Eugene Levy (SCTV, ...

Scene 1: Madea, a huge grandmother, bounces onto the stage, a tempest towering over other actors, instantly stealing the scene, the star of her own show. In this play, Madea wears black cat-eye ...

After a hilarious run-in with the law, Madea is sentenced to community service. Determined to do good for the 'hood, Madea enlists Aunt Bam and Uncle Joe to try to save the Moms Mabley Youth Center ...

No. This isn’t a joke. Not an SNL parody. It’s for real and will be released direct-to-DVD on January 20th. According to the plot synopsis: "After a hilarious run-in with the law, Madea is sentenced ...